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Looks like somebody didn't like Wonder Woman 1984. I think folks on social media are overthinking the motive. A lot of people (most?) hate telecoms and big tec

Looks like somebody didn't like Wonder Woman 1984. I think folks on social media are overthinking the motive. A lot of people (most?) hate telecoms and big tech companies (including their employees and contractors) and someone decided to stick it to one. There are so many reasons for this, some logical and valid and some conspiratorial nonsense. In the end, it all boils down to the fact that living under the watch of these massive and all-powerful conglomerates makes many, many people deeply unhappy. The country is a powder keg of armed, angry, diseased, lonely people and unfortunately, something like this was likely to happen sooner rather than later. It's very sad.

cinquemb 6y ago
Yeah, I fully expect more incidences like this to happen all over the world. The incentives, socioeconomic backdrop, technical feasibility, and widely accessible tech are all enablers.
- meekmockmook 6y ago
  The cognitive dissonance and total denial is off the charts with telecom and tech leaders who don't realize (or care) that their massive growth has played a large role in global civil unrest. The general public is terrified and angry at the rapidly shifting technological landscape and the changes in social norms that come with it. Trust in technology is at a low, and for good reason. We have titanic businesses with almost superhuman like abilities to get under our skin at an algorithmic level. Tech companies can literally, for all intents and purposes, make people disappear from the internet. A small group of companies can casually destroy your life with a small code change and you wouldn't even know it. Everyone's data is being sold, stolen, sold on the black market, and intercepted by governments both local and foreign. An internet outage now means that your thermostat or fridge could go out and you're going to spend the night cold. I mean, there's a reason that Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most hyped games of the last 5 years. The anxiety resonates. Sometimes I wonder if there are people in tech/cable who grew up reading Neuromancer or Snow Crash and thought "Cool! Let's make it happen!"
  - cinquemb 6y ago
    > The cognitive dissonance and total denial is off the charts with telecom and tech leaders who don't realize (or care) that their massive growth has played a large role in global civil unrest. I wouldn't leave out leaders in other industries as well: finance, energy, etc… TBTF/ TBTJ policies can incentivize this type of stuff as all other options to date seem to cause no effective changes.
    - meekmockmook 6y ago
      100 percent true. No shortage of blame to go around and this is certainly not new either. We've just accelerated very fast during a year of deep suffering and this kind of thing is inevitable, sadly. I'm a firm believer in wielding antitrust law to break the biggest corpos up, no matter the sector.
      - cinquemb 6y ago
        > I'm a firm believer in wielding antitrust law to break the biggest corpos up, no matter the sector. I'm a firm believer that no amount of legislation will change the direction of the ship we're on… k street wont have it any other way…
        meekmockmook 6y ago
        Heh. Maybe I should start looking at property in Costa Rica or Finland or somewhere just totally away from it all.
        cinquemb 6y ago
        I left the US 5 years ago… I think the US will be ground zero for this "Innovation" (although proof of concepts have been deployed in the ME for years, tech cheaper now for more people to use for their own ends)… :P I don't think anywhere is completely safe, but I do think some places have less likelihood of such happening due to the backdrop not skewing incentives as much in those places for such to happen, but everywhere is connected…

cinquemb 6y ago

Yeah, I fully expect more incidences like this to happen all over the world. The incentives, socioeconomic backdrop, technical feasibility, and widely accessible tech are all enablers.

meekmockmook 6y ago
The cognitive dissonance and total denial is off the charts with telecom and tech leaders who don't realize (or care) that their massive growth has played a large role in global civil unrest. The general public is terrified and angry at the rapidly shifting technological landscape and the changes in social norms that come with it. Trust in technology is at a low, and for good reason. We have titanic businesses with almost superhuman like abilities to get under our skin at an algorithmic level. Tech companies can literally, for all intents and purposes, make people disappear from the internet. A small group of companies can casually destroy your life with a small code change and you wouldn't even know it. Everyone's data is being sold, stolen, sold on the black market, and intercepted by governments both local and foreign. An internet outage now means that your thermostat or fridge could go out and you're going to spend the night cold. I mean, there's a reason that Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most hyped games of the last 5 years. The anxiety resonates. Sometimes I wonder if there are people in tech/cable who grew up reading Neuromancer or Snow Crash and thought "Cool! Let's make it happen!"
- cinquemb 6y ago
  > The cognitive dissonance and total denial is off the charts with telecom and tech leaders who don't realize (or care) that their massive growth has played a large role in global civil unrest. I wouldn't leave out leaders in other industries as well: finance, energy, etc… TBTF/ TBTJ policies can incentivize this type of stuff as all other options to date seem to cause no effective changes.
  - meekmockmook 6y ago
    100 percent true. No shortage of blame to go around and this is certainly not new either. We've just accelerated very fast during a year of deep suffering and this kind of thing is inevitable, sadly. I'm a firm believer in wielding antitrust law to break the biggest corpos up, no matter the sector.
    - cinquemb 6y ago
      > I'm a firm believer in wielding antitrust law to break the biggest corpos up, no matter the sector. I'm a firm believer that no amount of legislation will change the direction of the ship we're on… k street wont have it any other way…
      - meekmockmook 6y ago
        Heh. Maybe I should start looking at property in Costa Rica or Finland or somewhere just totally away from it all.
        cinquemb 6y ago
        I left the US 5 years ago… I think the US will be ground zero for this "Innovation" (although proof of concepts have been deployed in the ME for years, tech cheaper now for more people to use for their own ends)… :P I don't think anywhere is completely safe, but I do think some places have less likelihood of such happening due to the backdrop not skewing incentives as much in those places for such to happen, but everywhere is connected…