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crazy how we've just been living in a technological dystopia since the 2010s
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badgraph1csghost
6 months ago
the reaction to edward snowden's leak was the most deafening display of de-evolution i've ever seen: first everyone freaks out "oh no they're monitoring everything what'll we do?!" then alarm fatigue set in and now people are like "okay boomer, let's get you back to the home".
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palmistshouse
6 months ago
Not to sound pessimistic but I think we've been living in a technological dystopia ever since the introduction of computers into the family home.
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oldkidz-newblockz
6 months ago
yeah, bg1g - it went from "ah, shit", to "so what tel. companies (=feds) has in job (and we pay them for)"
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projectc190
6 months ago
@palmistshouse i wouldn't say it is inherent to consumer technology but that it definitely saw a turn for the worse since companies found out how to profit off of mass surveillance
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letslearntogether
6 months ago
@projectc190 - Why 2010 though? @palmistshouse - David Burnham, the investigative journalist, would have probably agreed: https://youtu.be/3H-Y-D3-j-M?si=4KX04-jONTUcQHBN&t=487 As @badgraph1csghost and @oldkidz-newblockz point out, it seems to have dramatically increased since then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-3K3rkPRE
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letslearntogether
6 months ago
After the so-called "Patriot Act", things like "Project Shamrock" grew exponentially. The "PRISM program" showed that most companies have their own "Room 641A" and feed data to the UDC in Bluffdale so that alphabet orgs can train "AI" and do "war game simulations": https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/23/sentient_worlds/ "Military intelligence" then trickles down to the "police state" through "fusion centers".
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letslearntogether
6 months ago
But we can go back further. Most of "Silicon Valley" grew out of miltary research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo And many of the earliest computers were developed specifically for military applications...Perhaps one of the most egregious examples was their use in the automation of genocide done during WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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letslearntogether
6 months ago
However, that is still done through "information warfare": https://web.archive.org/web/20250220150818/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html Or carried out "by proxy", like with "stochastic terrorism" spread through "memetic warfare": https://www.start.umd.edu/news/new-zealand-terrorists-manifesto-look-some-key-narratives-beliefs-and-tropes
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letslearntogether
6 months ago
The "average joe" may not realize how prevalent all of that might be. Hypothetical Exampe: The "terminally online" on an anonymous imageboard are tricked into doing "OSINT"...But when they start uncovering the *real* darkness through their "weaponized autism", will that corruption get it shutdown by "flaming" it with CSAM and painting their findings as a nonsensical "conspiracy theory"?
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letslearntogether
6 months ago
Currently, "e/acc" is aiming for the "technological singularity", but what exactly is humanity working towards? There is danger in computers becoming idols for worshiping the "Solid State Entity" https://web.archive.org/web/20241009072404/https://seankerrigan.com/john-c-lilly-and-the-solid-state-entity/ So, don't be corralled into a Brave New World-like "smart city" or help make a "world in chains scenario".
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letslearntogether
6 months ago
All of that might sound incredibly depressing or scary, but don't worry. None of it will ever succeed. There is an Intelligence infinitely greater than the "artificial" and it communicates with us directly through genuine virtue and kindness. Sincerely strive to hear it by tuning out all of the "noise". 💜
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projectc190
5 months ago
@letslearntogether i mentioned the 2010s because of significant incidents i know of, such as the 2012 google street view fcc investigation, but thats not to say that similar indications of tech dystopia didn't happen earlier than that
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Sorry if it's kind of out of the blue, but today I started getting into Riichi and when I saw the Japanese name for the double identical sequence yaku, I immediately thought of you.
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do u think the research project wants me fr if i emailed their phd student and they sent me a winky face in their email back
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your blog is nice to read. i know it's from a while ago but your post about applying to med school is absolutely too real. i hope things have turned out well for you in spite of the hardships you've had to face
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sanguineroyal
6 months ago
🥺 stop you are so kind, thank you...ive grown a lot since that initial post, and for the better at that. I'm not looking to get a masters or PhD personally, but I saw your post on the global feed and def followed you because I needed more people to commiserate with, hahaha<3
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projectc190
6 months ago
i'm really glad to hear that! as for what i said, going to grad school seems like an obvious choice for me but after that i'm not 100%. i dont really know what i'm doing but i doubt anyone else does either. with u in solidarity as Young Adult with Big Ambition🫡🫡
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does anyone know what happened to vashti??
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need to be friends with more masters and phd students so i know what terrible darkness my future holds
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i've been working on my site overhaul on and off when i feel like it. even if it was never my intention when starting my site i strangely felt the need to keep updating and updating so its nice to have snapped myself out of that
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it seems like the entire world is treating science as a waste of money anymore. "more security, better army, big police forces, take the money from science, they're all a bunch of freeloaders anyway." it's really sad.
i think it's some sort of international ripple effect after trump got elected. it's crazy that if u say "science = woke and woke = bad" enough times people start believing it lmfao
I'm so sorry-- I know what it's like to lose research opportunities for shitty bureaucratic reasons. I am holding your hand. There will always be another door that opens when one is slammed shut.
I hope it is resolved smoothly and you get to rest peacefully! Ethical and open science into fundamental human needs will always be priceless, but the ivory towers built by fleecing the tuition and research of their students will eventually fall...as will the government and corporate behemoths that they prop up...
...Oh gosh, tone is not conveyed well through text 😂...I do not say that last half with a devilish glint in my eye, lusting after their downfall. I say it with a genuine desire that they be peacefully transformed into something that enriches life for everyone.
thank you for the concern everyone :') i just updated ; the situation has since been resolved thankfully