Wait… You’re telling me that people born into extreme privilege and wealth turn out to be self-aggrandizing, egotistical, sociopaths who drastically over-estimate their own importance and contribution to society?

My world view is shook!

After seeing how government orgs manage tech projects from the inside in late stage capitalism I’ll tell you what happened.

Some criminally corrupt parasite in the political class was wowed by bribes and cocaine from the sales teams of the big 4, who assured them they can do it cheaper, faster, better with 100 offshore Indians. Most of the sub-contractors of sub-contractors working on the project were just warm bodies without the skills or experience, requiring the handful of onshore staff to spend 100% of their time in meetings, fighting fires, hand holding incompetent managers and juniors, doing hundreds of hours of overtime, severely impacting their physical Ave mental health.

Meanwhile a team of 20 onshore staff would have done it cheaper, faster, better 90% of the time.

Listen, guys. The oligarchy urgently needs to implement a totalitarian fascist dictatorship before automation renders billions of people unemployable.

You understand, right? They need to surveil everyone 24/7, otherwise the 99% might successfully organise a revolt and redistribute the collective output of human civilisation before we achieve GAI, or have produced armies of killbots capable of genociding the masses who are incapable of providing any value to capitalism.

There really isn’t any alternative. It’s their god given right to own all matter, space, and time in the universe, and — most unfortunately — you can’t exist without consuming or occupying an infinitesimally small microcosm of it.

You’re getting downvoted because your hot take is referring to solutions that would legitimately tackle the housing crisis, and put downward pressure on prices, as “extremist”.

No workers in developed “democracies” have had any significant improvement in mobility for several decades. Forcing every future population into progressively new heights of omnipresent housing and economic insecurity is fucking “extremist”, and if you keep making people’s lives worse you’re guaranteed to spawn some dangerous “extremists”… I’m talking the revolutionary kind, who will be far more destructive and far less forgiving in their hot takes on wealth redistribution.

They should be known as criminals, as it should be illegal for companies to own residential property. It should also be illegal for any individual (or partners) to own more than 2 properties.

The housing crisis will never end unless limits are imposed on the ownership of the finite resource. Every single “solution” I’ve seen from “liberal” governments to date is only proven to incentivise profiteering and inflate the cost of housing.

It’s the same Christian fascist lobby groups financed by psychopathic oligarchs and their corporations… I guarantee it. This is analogous to their attacks on wikipedia, VPN’s, DNS, encryption, our private communication systems, and our education, legal, political, and judicial systems.

Their goal is to control or destroy all sources of information on the planet, especially tools that are anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist — like they have been doing in the USA, for decades — one at a time, using every tool at their disposal.

Web archiving tools document fascisms psychological warfare across the internet, so they obviously must be destroyed.

Why should any of us approve of making things easier for technofascists?

In northwest Spain, volunteers used strainers to sift nurdles from sand along the Atlantic coast after containers full of pellets fell off a cargo vessel in late 2023.

Capitalist dictatorships, doing capitalist dictatorship things… If you or I accidentally dumped a ton of plastic in the ocean we would face huge fines. A corporation does it and volunteers have to clean up their mess.

They’re going all in on domestic chip manufacturing, and they are catching up much faster than armchair generals, and even actual generals, predicted.

Isn’t capitalism a blast?

Member when “no taxation without representation” was a thing people believed in?

Always have been

Morals are like religion to the sociopathic political and capitalist class; just another tool you can use to lie, cheat, steal, control, and virtue signal.

The catch is you can only commit crimes if you’re a billion dollar corporation!

For bots, by bots

And his narcissism is rewarded with extreme wealth and power.

Peak capitalism.

These are laws ghosts written by surveillance capitalist oligarchs. Privacy/sec communities have been suspecting this for decades, and especially since the Snowden leaks and big techs evolution since.

Forget the historical examples, and all the conspiracy denialism from Dems/liberals about the authoritarian attack vector of, and risks to democracy posed by, a secret police and surveillance state… Imagine implementing this draconian shit in a country that is currently being overthrown by a fascist regime. It’s almost like the Dem/Liberal political class is a controlled opposition working for the same oligarchs as the R’s — hell bent on returning the serfs to feudalism — huh?

This is why I consider America to be suffering from a propaganda-induced mental-illness epidemic, and I mean the average American; all the non-voters and average D, just as much as the average R. Sure, the R’s are the most mentally-ill, but this isn’t a fucking contest. The media the average D’s consume has been oligarch-owned for decades, too. They consistently fall in line and support neoliberal, oligarch-financed, corporate-whores like Newsom, time and time again. Instead of viewing him and all of his analogues as an enemy of the people — vital to the success of oligarchy and fascism — they view him as a voice of reason and leader. They’ve been okay with funding blatant genocide the entire time (most still are). They’ve been okay with the destruction of the working class and economic mobility for over 5 decades. They were okay with the Fox News FASCIST STATE MEDIA propaganda operation acting in plain site, for 30 god damn years. The R’s didn’t occur in a vacuum. The D’s were a vital player in the R’s success.

Now here, as always, we have the D’s/liberals continuing to construct big brother FOR FASCISM, even in the final hour, when the coup is almost complete, while acting like they are doing it to “protect” the working class, instead of to enslave them.

I checked my phone’s location settings, and sure enough, Instagram had recently accessed this information.

The average tech-illiterate journo is always going to be dogshit at these “experiments” because they don’t understand how most of the underlying tech works.

Other additions to my feed were harder to explain. … One video featured a woman in a sari frying up South Indian dumplings called kuzhi paniyaram — an obscure dish my mum would make when I was growing up.

Yes, numbnuts. Your precise location, plus a hundred other data points you’re ignorant of, associated the account with your mum. This journo probably doesn’t even know that location access likely means visibility of all the wifi and bluetooth devices in your radius.

If this is late stage cap journalism, in the age of omnipresent surveillance capitalism, it’s time to pack it in. We’re well and truly cooked. Welcome to costco, I love you!

“Never again” really means “Always, forever” in the bad place

There really should be a focus on government-level efforts in the EU, to force mobile manufacturers to standardise and open source all firmware sold in its jurisdiction. All OSS mobile OS’s (not on custom OSS hardware) rely on Android solutions because mobile hardware is bespoke, closed source, and non-standard from device to device; the opposite to the PC ecosystem that enabled Linux. The Apple/Android duopoly won’t be broken if mobile hardware vendors can continue creating custom closed-source firmware for their hardware, and there’s simply no reason to allow this anti-competitiveness to continue.