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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Yes, why could people ever be concerned about surveillance of their online activities. Are you being willfully obtuse, or just generally dense? https://theintercept.com/2025/02/11/ice-immigration-social-m...
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Does this mean there is no value in maintaining federal education standards, or do we want to let states decide if they want to abolish theirs as well?
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I fear there is no reaching some. Orwell wrote about this in 1984 (and also, incidentally, fought fascists on the ground during the Spanish Civil War): "To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling ca
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
If your engagement with politics, civics and public policy begins and ends with how much groceries and gas cost, then you are the perfect consumer, and something less than a thinking, rational human with agency and awareness. What is a hum
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What makes you think they care?
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There were skilled people in the French and Dutch resistances, as well.
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Stop playing along with this farce. Their goal is not to improve anything or reduce waste, it's to destroy the apparatus of governance entirely, privatize everything, and rule over a destitute, terrified populace as unto gilded age ki
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
It's very clear once you realize the people perpetrating this don't care one whit for the "economy" writ large, only their personal wealth and that of their cronies. The dumber, meaner and more desperate the population
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>>openly pick and choose which laws are valid and which are not ah yes, the same way every major police department in the US has been functioning for most of living memory
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Elon Musk isn't an elected official either. This shitshow needs to be brought to light, as it is the best disinfectant.
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If only we could automate that interaction, we'll have completely removed all human intelligence from the loop. What could possibly go wrong?
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Nvidia is selling shovels. OpenAI is renting out mining crews
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Yes, you can exit your crypto when you are deported from your local fascist regime. Crypto is immune to this because it's not tied to the value of one sovereign currency, or any particular polity or another. I am not talking about the
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Deportations are a thing, and ethnic cleansing is not a new idea. It's not always so easy to know what people hold in those situations. Still, fair point. All the more reason to care about privacy.
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Guess what happens when fascist regimes target those they deem undesireables? Often, they confiscate their property. Many cryptocurrencies are inalienable, so long as you preserve private access to your seed phrase. Also, how about when yo
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Honestly, a couple million X-prize type situation for a trash goblin bot that digs through the landfill semi-autonomously and retrieves hard drives would have a decent shot.
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Given that he's a CEO, he's donating to a group that wants to cut his taxes and remove all regulation from his business. Class interest above all.
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This exactly. Data ought to be viewed as fissile material. That is, potentially very powerful, but extremely risky to store for long periods. Imposing severe penalties is the only way to attain this, as the current slap on the wrist&#x2F
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Your children, however, can eat their friends, and their friends' children.
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Yes, which originally came from Cyberpunk, the first sourcebook for which was released in 1988, with Cyberpunk 2020 releasing in 1990 complete with the idea for pre-recorded replayable memories/full sensory experience, ie:Braindance. S
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Scrutiny without the ability to exert oversight, control or any modicum of restraint is... utterly useless to everyone except the historians.
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Brian?
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Good luck with the diseases of the future, when antibiotics are useless and we have no source for new therapies.
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(goose)Shit like this is exactly why failing to account for the negative externalities associated with anthropogenic biosphere collapse is so utterly shortsighted and will ultimately be the death of us all. Every extinction is potentially
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by nyc_data_geek1 2y ago
Also don't fuck with that thing where scrolling down progresses an animation, moves things sideways, gets you past the scrollgate until you can continue scrolling down the page. Terrible, jarring, disruptive, user-hostile design.
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How do you do, fellow humans?
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Amateurs speak of tactics, professionals speak of logistics. That DoD research has civilian applications makes it no less intended for enforcing violent hegemony and killing people. Imagine if half of that went toward genuine civilian rese
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Imagine if Russia owned Fox News. Oh wait
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>>What makes you think "everything military = death business"? mil·i·tar·y /ˈmiləˌterē/ adjective relating to or characteristic of soldiers or armed forces. Hope this helps.
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analytics and data processing by the military is by definition the death business

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