Comment on MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back
Quexotic@beehaw.org 2 days agoBeing in a panopticon prison state has a way of dissuading people from doing the needful.
Obviously there’s more nuance than that, but…
Maybe to get an idea of what’s going on, look at the timeline at maps.deflock.org/timeline
I don’t have the spoons for more explanations right now, but we know how badly we’re getting fleeced.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s bad, but also… it’s extremely complicated. China has a surveillance state. The EU, UK, and US are all flirting with surveillance state technology. You have companies like Palantir, Pegasus, Flock, … promoting their products to governments like magic hat solutions to issues such as terrorism. You have data aggregation companies selling private data to the 3 letter agencies. You have cops willingly using these networks because it makes their job slightly more effortless. You have Trump And Co with their own motives, who would love to find any possible leverage over their perceived enemies. You have AI companies riding the bull of the US economy, all desperately looking for catchy use cases. You have this idea of an AI arms race.
Whatever world we walk into, it’s not looking pretty. It’s looking like we might actually develop something which is going to be damn near impossible to turn off.