Technology

Very intelligent article in terms of painting a richly detailed picture. Falls short in reality awareness tho.

For example, it's easy for people like the author who are immersed in using information tech to imagine everybody lives that way, but about 2/3 of all jobs still involve working directly with physical objects and materials. Of the 1/3 of jobs that could be done entirely online, only about 1/3 of those actually are. The author mentions that we also interact with our personal lives solely through electronics - to communicate with each other, manage our schedules, our lists, etc - but we used to do most of that on paper. Electronics didn't replace direct interaction with reality, it just replaced paper and pencil.

Recognizing this takes most of the wind out of the author's sails. Silicon Valley, the label they seem to lump modern technology in general under, which most people see as a handful of IT companies, didn't start this phenomenon of insulating ourselves from the real world. We've had telephones and radio for about a century, paper for centuries before that, and all kinds of powered or motorized appliances and other conveniences all our lives. How many of us still have living relatives who ever depended on fire-based lighting or animal-powered transportation, for example?

Anyway, tl;dr I think this article is a fine example of stylishly writing up an interesting and stimulating point of view, which doesn't really have a solid basis but is written well enough to convince many readers that it's insightful.

Moonraker?

Preparing a coup?….the coup is in progress

He should take the first flight out. Can't wait...

A mars colony won't come. I just doesn't make any sense. These billionaires simply use that vision for marketing and obfuscation of their inhumane ideas (TESCREAL).

Ben Elton called this 35 years ago:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel)

So his ultimate recommendations are "fight hypernormalism by dissassociating with the algorithm, and strengthen leftist democracy"

Democracy, as implemented, does absolutely suck. Crypto currencies are great vehicles for "liquid democracy" (you have priviledge to vote on every issue, or to delegate and take back delegation, to anyone else, and no elections are ever needed). UBI based on crypto currency analysis for deserving UBI (spending on local businesses or rent or property purchases), and other proofs of residence/existence, can work in liquid democracy if government is assured to not hate you. High income taxes and density weighted property taxes, can fund a centrist UBI. Sales taxes added with UBI, to make UBI higher, is ok too. High income taxes, make job creation programs that produce useful benefits to the community worth it in not over privatizing success as a privilege for the successful.

A major issue in getting Trump to allow bids on national land for techno-fascist cities is that whole states or counties could bid for their own federal tax free/arrangement secession. Communal style vs unlikely fascist overlord style bids. Puzzle question: would Trump allow blue counties to leave or red counties?

Liquid democracy and UBI/freedom dividends is only acceptable future of society. If Trump allows for independent of US cities bids on public lands, as a tax shelter from US scheme, there is still opportunity for real utopia to bid on such lands. And having high internal tax rates to fund UBI would certainly attract more people than techno fascist winning bid cities.

Omg so just go to Mars and leave us all the fuck alone.

These bros are so goddamn stupid, and I wouldn't even care except they're going to kill us all in their delusional dumbass pursuit of a technocratic AI powered utopia.

And they're all so fucking miserable even if they succeed they will just wind up all alone in their robotic powered biodomes wondering wtf the point of existence is bc nobody is left to stroke their dumb fucking egos.

Please let’s just send them all to mars on one of musk’s space x rockets and be done with this. Godspeed assholes

It‘s Bioshock, they just want to build rapture on mars instead of under the ocean.

The plan is to confine those of us on Earth to a slave class, working to tirelessly fund their “idealised utopia” in their technostate cities while they commit total ecocide by strip-mining our entire planet, polluting all of our air, water and land. While we are locked away complacent with only their generative AI to bring us comfort through our neuralink brain implants. You will own nothing, every thought you have will be monitored, every idea, memory, dream, feeling, will be what you are permitted to have. This is what AI is for. Smart Technology was always supposed to make you stupid. Google Maps, so you can’t find your way out of a paper bag without it. Autocorrect so you can’t spell anymore. Spotify at max volume has made an entire generation hard of hearing without them even realising. Addicted to screens, unable to resist reading the next piece of political propaganda. Social Media and smartphones are how the Billionaire class has tricked the entire world into spying on itself for them. Do you remember Joe Rogan talking about how cool it’ll be when technology gets in your body? How no one will want it, “until you’re flying around shooting lasers out of your eyes.”? Do you remember the Cambridge Analytica leaks showing that Facebook pushed the lies and propaganda that resulted in Brexit? Google have everything you have ever logged into a search bar. They have every phone number you’ve ever owned, every photo, from every account you’ve ever had across every one of their platforms. The acceleration of climate change is completely because of Amazon.com’s effect on the global supply chain. 2 Factor authentication does not exist to protect you from hackers. It is so your phone number is always linking you personally, to every account you have.

Did you notice after COVID how every bank machine became a smart device that runs android? One with cameras on both sides? What about how clock in machines became android tablets and they take your picture when you clock in and out. Why do they need to take your picture? Smart watches record your biometric data and send it to Apple, or Google. You can’t talk on your handset in the car but every new vehicle comes with a giant screen in the centre console that runs either IOS/Android. Every new security camera is a wifi camera which runs android. Why does a CCTV camera need to have an internet connection. Every checkout machine runs android, records your grocery list and records you, while it takes your picture and your card information. The phones are always listening always recording. Google have just bought the data from Europe, by paying the fines. That’s why they went after Germany and had Mers elected. They want to dismantle any and all privacy protections left. But why? Curtis Yarvin, mentor to JD Vance and Close personal friend of Peter Thiel already wrote about his desire to “Virtualise non-productive people as a humane alternative to genocide.” That is what they want for the rest of us, to die dehydrated and starving while we live out the rest of our lives virtually, through generative AI. My friend you don’t want them to get to Mars, AI exists to spy on everything you do and to silence dissent. So they can easily search the gargantuan database they have collected on all of humanity by saying “Hey Gemini/Grok/DuckAI/Leo/Copilot etc. Is anyone out there expressing dissatisfaction with the regime?”

Maybe I’m just being silly. I mean, it’s not like they have the exact co-ordinates of every man-made above ground structure in the world. Oh wait, that’s Google Earth. By the way, did you know Google developed none of these technologies? They made their money selling your information to advertisers then purchased every emerging innovative company they could, rebranded it as Google and added spyware. All of the far-right groups that emerged after COVID are funded by Big Tech and they all have the same names. America First, Britain First, Ireland First, Francais Premier. There are no removeds coming for your kids , there are no dangerous, mentally-ill migrants eating cats and dogs. But they repeat that message over and over, whilst ensuring immigration remains high. The REAL reason everything is so expensive. Why we can’t afford housing, or food. The thing that is driving inflation is all because of wealth inequality. If I purchase from Amazon.ca from a canadian retailer. Canada sees no tax. Because, for the purposes of that transaction Amazon is in Sweden. Any transaction to Meta and countries see no tax, because for that purpose Meta are in Ireland. These companies collect money across every denomination from every country on Earth and they pay NO TAX. None of it returns to circulation. This forces the central banks of every nation to print more money which drives up inflation. Creating Further poverty, homelessness and enslaving us to their propaganda. This is why Elon Musk said a “Single World Government” would destroy society at the world economic forum. Because if we banded together as nations and said no more we could demand that these companies pay taxes back into the economies they steal from. We need to Tax Wealth, not work. If we were wise, we’d all install linux. divest ourselves from all of their properties, reject AI and buy flip phones. We have the choice to stop, we do not have to obey.