People need to start calling this what it is. Backdoor-ing encryption is backdoor-ing national security. It should be considered nothing less than treason to democracy…
But we don’t live in democracies. We live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as democracy, so these efforts to destroy our civil liberties make perfect sense.
Yep. There’s a 50/50 chance it’s a complete lie to stoke xenophobia.
Elect monkeys. Get circus.
*Because surveillance capitalism has consumed our governments and is writing regulations that expand their data collection capabilities… under the guise of “protecting kids”, “fighting crime”, or “terrorism”.
Their approach has not changed in decades, yet the majority continually fall for it, over and over again.
Epstein didn’t hill himself, and his closest friends were oligarchs, including European royalty and the US president.
I read the headline and was like “The entire IDF/Israeli state?”
Surveillance capitalism benefits the most criminal and corrupt the most. As they possess no morals or ethics, they’re happy to use all available data and methods — however illegal — to engage in psychological warfare, disinformation, and straight lies to “con” voters into supporting criminals.
This means that surveillance capitalism is authoritarianism, as it will serve to promote the worst governance and destroy the best; the enshittification of government. It is the greatest threat to transparent, honest, and just governance — to democracy — probably in all of modern history; certainly in the history of politics and information warfare.
Unless I see evidence of him being legitimately critical of Israel prior to 2025, I’m gonna assume he’s only calling them out now because public opinion has overwhelmingly turned against Israel.
Leave some brain cells for the rest of us bro
Why the fuck would I ever want to do that? I don’t even want people I know knowing who I am.
Keep my name out ya goddamn mouth — Will Smith probably
Yeah, well Russia and the MAGAzi’s have forced all to shoot past 2%. Restructuring takes time and money.
The figures I saw were recent and projected commitments for the next couple of years.
They let the war criminal go free and punished the messenger. We’re also financing a genocide that like 80% of the population oppose.
Seems we’re just another corporate dictatorship masquerading as “democracy”.
Great news! All the high skilled service economy jobs will be outsourced to the developing world for slave wages and we will be incinerated to power AI art.
I swear I’ve seen figures that most of the EU have gone from <2-5% between 2015 and 2026/7, so I’m sure that includes most of NATO.
They better redirect those funds away from the US though, otherwise we really are screwed.
All those decades many of us spent warning about neoliberals and conservatives working hand in hand to build big brother FOR fascism fell on deaf ears…
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my future is ruined.
Oh… goodie
How about the monarch ruled dictatorship where you can bone-saw journalists with impunity?
Nothing prevents terrorism like murdering a mans entire family… then repeating those crimes on tens of thousands of innocent people… for generations.
Israel is winning the world’s hearts and minds with every war crime.
It’s the same for every figurehead of every org, from politicians to CEO’s. They can make or break a campaign/project entirely on their own, but they can’t do any of it without team(s) of people supporting them, and often the team(s) supporting them are the determining factor in their entire success.
The Koch’s are not your average CEO. They are 100% psychopaths. They have been financing libertarian propaganda since the 60’s, and are more responsible for both fascism and the MAGA mental illness than Trump, McConnell or any other Republican. If you dig into their history, it’s littered with examples of everything from wilfully poisoning the environment, screwing workers they gave cancer, and attempting to overthrow the US gov. I suggest the behind the bastards episode about them.
Their dad was a literal nazi; praised Hitler, Japan, and Italy in the 1930’s, and considered New Zealand a socialist hellscape. They were raised by a child abusing Nazi nanny, who was such a Nazi she returned home in 1939 to be a part of Hitlers reich. Everything that came after don’t get any better.
The AI we know is missing the I. It does not understand anything. All it does is find patterns in 1’s and 0’s. It has no concept of anything but the 1’s and 0’s in its input data. It has no concept of correlation vs causation, that’s why it just hallucinates (presents erroneously illogical patterns) constantly.
Turns out finding patterns in 1’s and 0’s can do some really cool shit, but it’s not intelligence.