What happens when the richest person on the planet uses his fortune, his companies, and his own social network to dictate policy, amplify supremacist discourse, encourage massacres and abuse, and on top of that presents himself as the saviour of humanity? Every One Hates Elon turns satire into a tool of resistance against the disproportionate political power of tech billionaires: because when power becomes obscenely large, ridiculing it is not only fun; it is a way to bring it down to human size, banish silence and resignation, and prepare us for action.

https://www.instagram.com/everyonehateselon_/

In a 4D edition titled Mocking Power, Making Change, we couldn’t miss the chance to invite Pessimists Archive: no one better to prove, with humour and historical evidence, that we have been recycling the same technological panic for centuries. Because perhaps the problem was never technology, but who fears that we might learn to use it.

Whenever a technology capable of distributing knowledge and power appears, a hegemonic technophobic discourse also emerges, announcing the end of the world. It happened with writing, with the printing press, with the telephone, with radio, and naturally, it happens with the Internet and AI. Technophobia is not innocent; it is intentional: the ignorance and conservatism inherent to the human condition and to many opportunists willing to do anything are deliberately fuelled to create the perfect alibi for power to control the tools rather than putting them in people’s hands. Fear is used to justify indiscriminate bans, mass surveillance, and complicity with major technological abuses.

Pessimists Archive is the most exhaustive repository on this subject.

https://pessimistsarchive.org/

The Juice Media is 98.9% genuine satire, written and created by Giordano in a home studio in the backyard of suburban Melbourne, Australia, on the Wurundjeri lands.

Juice Media’s Honest Government Ads are satirical videos that parody government ads. Produced by The Juice Media, the series began focusing on Australian politics but has since expanded to address global issues. The videos are known for their blunt style, aiming to reveal truths about government operations and decisions that are often hidden by political rhetoric and the media circus.

https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ads/

El Mundo Today, directed by Xavi Puig Ripoll and Kike García de la Riva since 2009, is the most influential (humorous) newspaper in Spain. It operates mainly on the Internet, where it can be read completely free of charge, plus its expansion through collaborations in the press, radio, theatre and television.

https://www.elmundotoday.com/

Domestic Data Streamers is a collective from the future that turns data, propaganda and power into experiences that force us to confront what we cannot see. The Skeptic Reader is a tool for exposing traps, questioning certainties and refusing to swallow ready-made narratives.

https://www.domesticstreamers.com/
https://www.skepticreader.domesticstreamers.com/

Stop renting your digital life from Big Tech. At the Democratic Tech Fund, we build alternative infrastructure and democratic capacity — clouds, connected social spaces, tools, learning opportunities and spaces of care — so communities can create, govern and sustain their own digital lives. Come to the crowdfunding platform’s stand. The internet belongs to all of us. Let’s take it back!

https://democratictech.fund/