SreudianFlip @ SreudianFlip @sh.itjust.works

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A lot of us grow up around long guns. Handguns are relatively rare.

OK but what if you have a lava lamp that is synced to the moods of a sarcastic and greedy AI?

Security is about to get really weird. It used to be the Internet of Things we had to worry about, but now we have Things in Internet.

A lot of companies still use it for customer relations, sadly.

I yell at the road when people drive badly, too.

Activist, prolific novelist, EFF organizer and analyst, and then some. Lived and worked in both countries and deeply involved in digital rights and intellectual property policy. Probably worth paying attention on this particular issue.

Also, major exaggeration on the ‘every word’ whinge. He’s prolific and targeting the fediverse.

Isn’t that the relationship Russia had with Ukraine when Putin took over?

Yeah if you meet JT he’s just another confident politician in public and seems a bit shallow and kinda cringe, so whatever.

But everybody hates Skippy, the person. He’s a dick IRL and emptier than his résumé. The PP parade will just hold their noses and march anyway.

“…for some reason…”

The reason is the same as all fascist takeovers. The coup works slowly, then suddenly. We are in the acceleration phase, it’s ramping up, just as they said it would in the Project 2025 documents.

I REPEAT: THIS WAS ALL ANNOUNCED BEFOREHAND. Plus, history explains.

The script is to combine a shock and awe campaign of massive change on so many fronts that no one could possibly resist them all, and to demoralize and deflate opposition.

Once this phase is complete, the power thieves will have sufficiently infiltrated the monopoly on violence (military and policing management) and the bureaucratic and technocratic key elements will be gutted or loyalized, so that a full coup can occur. Full control of media, a massive apparatus of repression and surveillance, and a hot mess of mistrust throughout society.

Interpersonal and community relations will be broken and replaced by dependency on authority for guidance and morality and information. Rights will be crushed and perverted. Power and money will only flow to the top, and poverty will become the norm.

US international influence will contract and enemies will be constructed. Blame Canada.

Just a warning though, when you folks are finally conscripted to invade northwards, we have a lot of methods and welcoming gifts to make it regrettable, and people here are getting prepared. I’d dodge the draft, when it comes, if I were you.

Might think is an irony, but it’s intentional: that area is supposed to be sacred to the locals. This ongoing violation is just colonialism and genocide 2025.

Thanks I will check it out

Hm good point, and the techbro loligarchs will be gunning for control over areas like that, so it will be under pressure.

Not a popcorn show though. More like fingernail lunch.

I’ll com back to the game when there's more than 3 space stations in an infinite universe.

It's the path of strongly hierarchical institutions. The hierarchy itself skews bullshitters and sociopaths into power over time, and it becomes self-justifying and drops the core goals as you point out.

Flatter hierarchy institutions seem to have some immunity to this if the central goals are sufficiently motivating. The Quakers manage a fairly enduring fidelity to their original principles, for instance, and I admire their organizational methods and commitment to good works, if not their mythology. At a much smaller scale, nonprofits and cooperatives I have been involved with also have more or leas success avoiding institutional rot based on that combination of clear goals and power sharing.

That is the cycle of enshittification: give things away free at first, find ways to get indirect revenue from that by selling your users once the network effects kick in, and then in the end, raid the whole company for the primary shareholders.

It's a new economic model peculiar to late stage capitalism, and it's like an engine that drives loligarchy. Chucklefuck rich white boys who don't realize a little learning is the most dangerous thing of all.

The Revolution requires many Fronts, comrade pardner dude.

Wait didn't MEC collapse into / get bought by a regular corporation?

I’m here for the performative human part of the testing. Exposing AI is human generated content.

Horseshit.

Triage works well here once it kicks in. It can take a long time to see a specialist, but if you have a good GP who is concerned about life-threatening disease, the system goes into very high speed.

Chronic disease is another issue, but that is more a problem with philosophy than implementation.

Well, that is a shitty thread with a knee-jerk Nazi response, which is froth-at-the-mouth stupid, but to be clear, you claim mere disagreement when instead you attacked the individual with supposition and derision rather than just disagreement.

If we are going to avoid having an echo chamber here, we have to raise the level of discourse and avoid ad hominem attacks please.

Some parts of the culture are smoothbrained. Diversity is things like 'black white latino asian' whereas in more wrinklybrained cultures it's more like 'somali finnish trini chilean thai'. Economics is freedom vs communism instead of reality etc. And geography, well, good luck.