LunchMoneyThief @ LunchMoneyThief @links.hackliberty.org

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If society were destroyed, no ruins left to be discovered, no texts left to be read, would the next highly sentient species to emerge create their own gods? Would they worship a sapient male who resides anywhere, everywhere and nowhere? They certainly wouldn't recreate the stories of Mohammed or Jesus or any others. It is nice to meet you on this great plain, neighbor.

with Harris leading 70% to 23% among likely female voters.

Shocking, really. If a horse were running for president, and horses could vote, do you know who they would cast their vote for?

Having asleep zombie family can be the worst.

He wants a fake airspace defense system that puts on light shows to convince the domestic public that America is "under attack"?

Will Satan himself be attending?

menstrual surveillance departments

But why? This is information that can most certainly be gleaned from just about any data broker. Phone users cannot imagine just how much about their life is being meticulously catalogued and aggregated for ad tech networks.

The Trump team literally just needs to purchase the relevant aggregate data.

If you think I'm just being hyperbolic, btw there is software that can read your heart rate by the changes in red tonalities of your skin on camera, for example.

But you're remembering him right now.

The primary goal is to simply get the information inside your mind. Whether you like or dislike it doesn't really matter. That preexisting brand/product familiarity is often all that is needed to tip the scales months or years down the road, once you've "forgotten" all about the annoying ad, while you find yourself deciding between competing products on a shelf or on a store page.

The fabled HTPC is a fix that few people know exists for a problem that few people know they can do anything about.

While Ubuntu only ever metes out the occasional beating with things like spy lens, Windows has really been hitting it out of the park consistently. It is rivaled only maybe by Mac & iOS when it comes to punishing users for making stupid decisions. Their silently replacing local files with fronted copies served from MS's own "cloud" was a real banger. I can't wait to see what creative new ways they'll come up with next to make normies suffer.

Disclaimer: not being facetious

You don't need to involve technology to know what manipulative info people are gobbling up. Just watch the public. What they do. What they talk about.

Often, they will unanimously begin discussing the same topic(s) in the flesh all of a sudden. This is how you know it is not an organic process. They did not arrive at that thought through lived experience, but by what they'd seen on a screen.

It is nothing new. The 'feeds' in question were once formerly television.

Disclaimer #2: This may only really work if you, yourself are sufficiently unplugged from manipulative feed-based media.

If you'd cried your problems into a camera and uploaded it to the internet of the 2000s, it would have been metaphorical suicide. You would have risked being immortalized as "Leave Brittany alone!" or worse.

On today's web it seems to have been normalized.

If I went on a tangent about how game makers shackle themselves to vendor lock-in schemes like DirectX, then this little post wouldn't have been quite as fun and digestible.

Firefox ESR creates some safe distance between you and these "wonderful" new features that everybody "wants".

And plenty enough time for a user.js template to be tweaked accordingly.

Well, they might have a lobby or chatroom provided by discord. But discord's servers are hosted in datacenters of their own choosing. With a little research, you might be able to determine if any of these are physically located within your town.

Or have they finally changed things and now distribute binaries for people to host their own discord instances with?

Ah, the downstream effects of compliance teams.

"Hurry we gotta check off all the boxes!!! What do these measures actually address? Don't know, don't care! Comply!"

I never received any offers.

Industry wants to place computer "solutions" between you and the world around you to the maximum extent possible. Data is money.