Liberty is just the cost I have to pay for muh safety! /s

I was going to say have you looked at the shit the U.K. is doing lately, but sometimes I forget they voted their way into authoritarianism

I will say though, I’m very surprised there have been so many local governments within Europe that seem to be allowing this kind of shit.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117

Do you remember any names/locations?

I’m reading Ellul right now and loving it. His predictions were pretty freaky accurate. Especially since he wasn’t really a traditional philosopher. I think he had a background in sociology, but he was a law professor, and his writing almost seems to be him writing out well educated vibes.

He also joined the French resistance against Nazis during world war ii and was firmly opposed to the idea of separating Christianity from the socialist aspects of Jesus. Just all around bad ass. I couldn’t imagine a better foil for the jackass Nazis trying to run shit now.

I kinda feel like most people should be reading the the Technological Society right now bc of how accurate his predictions were.

The focus on efficiency as a means to an end that just keeps on digging new holes to fill old ones.

Becoming so focused on achieving efficiency and then losing a piece of our humanity in the process.

He has a belief about prison camps being inevitable in a society where efficiency is the ultimate goal. But most importantly he makes it a point to emphasize that this isn’t inevitable if enough people are warned in advance and revolt against it.

That’s the thing, no crime but nobody feels safe ever again.

Also, yeah there really isn’t much out there about this surveillance AI company that just kind of appeared out of nowhere ~2017.

Kinda like this other one that appeared out of nowhere ~2015

I wanted to share this article but wasn’t sure if it would be allowed bc it’s not a typical source https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/ai-surveillance-flock-safety-privacy-us-dunwoody-125090900393_1.html

There’s just not much coverage (probably intentionally) but I wanted to post about it bc the only other recent story I could find was this one and didn’t know if it would be deleted for not being a typical news source

https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/ai-surveillance-flock-safety-privacy-us-dunwoody-125090900393_1.html

He also experiments with defeating the AI that reads plates.

Whoever figures out how to make this shit worthless is going to be given king like status very quickly

BTW have you heard of this new tx law targeting “jugging?”

It sounds like a made up excuse to pull people over for trying to fool plate readers https://sh.itjust.works/comment/20899084

At this point, why not? This whole fucking country is ruled by a bunch of corrupt shit heads wrapped up in their own pyramid scheme of money and power.

Andreesen Horowitz is the VC company funding this shit. Marc Andreesen is also invested in that whites only colony those fuckers are building in TN.

I would really prefer for the government to just not collapse and this country to devolve into individual city states. However, I’m guessing as soon as that happens there will be an interesting (but short lived) war between the tech oligarchs who seize complete control of all territory and resources using this shit, and the traditionalists who somehow didn’t see it coming.

Of course not

I don’t even believe there’s hierarchy other than people are subservient.

We never should have allowed the supreme court to tell us that corporations=people. It’s only inevitable that if corporations are people, and the government is supposed to be elected and controlled by the people, then corporations=government.

The corporations are now the state that controls all of us. The government is not supposed to be run like a business where workers toiling under greedy shareholders are driven to an early grave in exchange for fewer and fewer bread crumbs.

When the workers strike, the business collapses, and when the people finally refuse to keep the country running for the greedy shareholders who believe they’ve rightfully purchased it, so will the government.

That’s exactly why they need this surveillance network in place to spy on everyone and crush dissent before it can occur.

U.S. companies did this by bringing “predictive policing” to China — technology that sucks in and analyzes data to prevent crime, protests, or terror attacks before they happen. Such systems mine a vast array of information — texts, calls, payments, flights, video, DNA swabs, mail deliveries, the internet, even water and power use — to unearth individuals deemed suspicious and predict their behavior. But they also allow Chinese police to threaten friends and family and preemptively detain people for crimes they have not even committed.

Hey, you remember how 23 and me went bankrupt and sold off all their data? Good thing the U.S. would never be as unethical as China bc of all those “baked in values” that keep us from even needing regulations.

Otherwise, we’d probably be staring down the barrel of a dystopian nightmare right now 😅

I honestly wonder if the “AI” data centers were always just meant to be used for crypto mining.

Like that was the true reason they had to build so much hype around AI, knowing we were nowhere near the point of actually achieving AGI.

Like I’m sure they will still be spying on everyone and dumping their data into these places to try to eventually reach it, but that was always secondary to having $10B data mining factories the size of Manhattan in places like Louisiana.

They’re finally admitting “Ok yeah we goofed on the whole AI thing lol, our bad” but we’re still going ahead with the data centers for some reason. Also, that $10B Meta data center has suddenly increased to a $50B “investment” from the U.S. tax payers within days of Fuckerburg announcing he’s freezing his own company’s spending spree on AI due to his fears of a bubble??

But nobody really noticed because this is literally being built in one of the poorest states in the U.S.

I already know the answer to this, but I’m going to ask if anyway.

How did we go from the most paranoid group of people choosing death over vaccinations bc of government surveillance conspiracies, literally storming the capital in an uprising over false rumors, and now that we have multiple confirmations of the most insane and ongoing 1984 government surveillance programs: fucking crickets?

Advocates say allowing citizens to sue, what’s known as “a private right of action,” helps people fight back against data-guzzling companies.

“And that can lead to these big class-action settlements, and there are legitimate critiques of them, with class members often getting very little money, and lawyers getting rich, but they can be genuinely effective at shaping companies’ attitudes about personal information and generate corporate change,” Karanicolas said.

Me, being exploited every time I leave my house and barely able to pay my bills while a $10B Meta data factory the size of Manhattan is receiving corporate welfare and being built in my unregulated state:

Even if there’s no big payoff for individuals, privacy is privacy and money is money. My preference would be no exploitation, but fighting the state and private corporations as an individual is a losing battle (especially right now). I’m very surprised there’s not already somebody trying to get the city or state to actually adopt a Facial Recognition tech ban.

Oh yeah they are in deep cahoots you should read the investigative journalism article they mention from earlier this summer.

This isn’t even the first time Thiel has been linked to Epstein, but we never really hear about it for some reason. This isn’t even the first time he’s been linked this summer.

Ever since that gawker lawsuit, it kinda seems like bad press about Peter Thiel gets buried almost as soon as it’s published.

Journalists have reported on Thiel’s links to Epstein for some time. In 2019, journalist Whitney Webb reported on the links between Epstein, Israeli tech company Carbyne, and the American intelligence apparatus. In the piece, she reported:

Not long after Epstein’s arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein’s close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel.

Webb added:

Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration’s proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings. Indeed, after the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas, President Trump — who received political donations from and has been advised by Thiel following his election — asked tech companies to “detect mass shooters before they strike,” a service already perfected by Thiel’s company Palantir, which has developed “pre-crime software” already in use throughout the country. Palantir is also a contractor for the U.S. intelligence community and also has a branch based in Israel.

The latest revelations around Thiel come from the leaked emails of the aforementioned Ehud Barak (former Israeli prime minister). Writing in Reason, Matthew Petti reported:

Epstein invited Barak to come to a meeting with Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and the surveillance contractor Palantir, in May 2014. Although Barak couldn’t make that meeting, Epstein insisted that Barak “spend real time with peter thiel [sic]” and offered to set up a dinner the following month.Epstein

Barak wrote to a different business associate a few days later, without mentioning Epstein’s role, that he and Thiel would have a “first date” and “probably spend it talking just geopolitics” with an unnamed third person. In that email, Barak added that he had met Thiel once before in Davos, Switzerland, but speculated that Thiel “probably doesn’t even recall it.”

Brace Belden of the TrueAnon podcast added that Barak suspected Thiel was “under some drug impact” when they met, according to the emails:

Once they’ve dismantled all progress made towards equality, and they control all the resources again.

People think this is a new fight, but it’s really the same one that we’ve been fighting forever. We just got too comfortable, and thought we couldn’t lose so much progress so quickly.

“we’ve come to realize that people knowing stuff is a real problem for our agenda.”