Basic Glitch
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Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto Technology@lemmy.world•JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquartersEnglish30·13 days agoLmao my thoughts exactly. Not just the general public, if enough Republicans get nervous and finally vote to subpoena those files, they might have to be legally taken by force.
Who had “If House Republicans would just fucking vote for accountability, the villain officially breaking the law and protecting pedophiles would be the CEO of a big bank?” on their bingo card. 🙋♀️
Curious why they would want to protect a pedophile protector and those bank files. Unless…?
“Survival of the fittest! It’s the natural order of things. Let nature take it’s cour… Hey, excuse me! You’re not supposed to be here without a biometric scan!”
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA WorldEnglish3·14 days agoFuuuuck, gaslighting the gaslighter in chief. This is how humanity ends. All bc reality has become trapped within an endless circle of AI generated gaslighting and fuckery thanks to these idiots.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA WorldEnglish6·14 days agoYet another reason they probably want to stir up violence. Not only does it tip us closer towards civil war, capturing public violence means more data to feed into AI and generate violent videos.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Palantir’s Military Role in Israel and BritainEnglish2·15 days agoI’ve also heard that British royalty still consists of types who classify people and nations by color, and those more colored in their perception have no rights at all.
The thing about this, is that it doesn’t matter if it’s happening in Brittain or the U.S. or Israel. It’s a form of social control for elites who view the world as a social hierarchy. There are no rules for them, but they need the masses to believe there are.
They’re at the top. God or nature chose for them to rule, and at the end of the day, nobody has any rights other than their right to rule over others. It just “is what it is.” They love social darwinism as long as they control the game, but they also know the reality is that if the masses were to ever unite and rise up against them, they would very quickly lose their spot at the top of the hierarchy.
Creating a value system on something arbitrary like skin color is one of the easiest ways to divide and conquer. Control of the masses by tricking some of them into believing they share something inherent with those who actually dominate all of them. Skin color, nationality, religion, or political beliefs as a measure of the value of human life, lulls the subordinates into a false sense of safety by default. They can be made fully aware of atrocities happening on the other side of the world, or even next door to them, but believe their belonging to the perceived in-group means it won’t happen to them.
When one out-group is eliminated, a new arbitrary out-group will be created to divide and conquer those who remain and destroy any who oppose. It’s happening in the U.S. right now.
We allowed immigrants to be rounded up like animals. We rationalized children screaming and crying in fear as their families were torn apart. They weren’t here “legally” so they didn’t have the same legal rights as everyone else. And since we allowed a group of humans to be considered “illegal,” a loss of human dignity is just accepted as the inevitable consequence of their actions. As if they somehow deserved this.
Then when we learned there were people who were here legally, but also being rounded up illegally in the rush to get all the “illegals” off the street, we accepted that it was simply a mistake, but a consequence of so many illegals with similar ethnicities overwhelming the system. A fault of the group, not a fault of the system. Nothing we needed to worry about, things would get sorted out, eventually. The system is never held to account.
Last week an entire apartment building was raided in Chicago when government agents dropped from a helicopter to a rooftop to break in. Most residents woke up to their doors kicked in around 1 am. Adults were handcuffed. Children were zip tied together and taken from their families screaming and crying. And in all the chaos and confusion, their American neighbors were also rounded up, handcuffed for hours, and denied due process. When they were finally released, they returned to find many of their friends and neighbors missing (and still unaccounted for), and many of their homes raided of valuables.
Surely this will be the line for America, right? We can all see this has nothing to do with immigration and “legal” status, right? The system is commiting the crime. They system is breaking all the rules it claims to enforce.
Or, will we all just accept that because it happened to mainly black and brown American citizens in an inner city apartment building, it was simply a mistake due to similar ethnicities overwhelming the system? It’s not something you need to worry about if you’re not one of them. You’re safe. Surely things will get sorted out, eventually.
President Trump released a new memo a few weeks ago that very few have paid much attention to. The vague language is phrased as targeting associates and funders of radical leftist groups like “Antifa,” but it’s vagueness essentially equates any act of political opposition with an act of domestic terrorism.
Divide and conquer.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Palantir’s Military Role in Israel and BritainEnglish13·15 days agoLavender was developed by the Israel Defense Forces’ elite intelligence division, Unit 8200. One officer was quoted as saying: “This is unparalleled, in my memory. The machine did it coldly. And that made it easier.” Another said: “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”
Just as Palestinians are dehumanised by the rhetoric around the conflict, the technology furthers this dehumanisation. People become ‘targets’ and the technology is seen as simply a mechanism for efficiency and time-saving in the process of killing.
Technology didn’t kill those people. It might make that guy sleep a little easier to pretend he’s just a “stamp of approval,” but thats because he’s deluding himself.
If Alex Karp and Peter Thiel had created a deadly biological weapon in a lab, then sold it around the world for profit knowing it would be used to commit mass murder, nobody would be pretending they weren’t responsible for those deaths their weapon caused.
They created this monster, and the U.S. helped it flourish by feeding it the data it needed. And now they’re just pillaging hoards of data from the entire world. And we’re just letting them. As if they have no responsibility for what they’re doing, and we have no way to stop them.
They refused and still refuse to regulate it. It’s not that they can’t, it’s because nobody forced them to. Why not? The technology isn’t to blame for this, they are. They created a technological weapon of mass destruction, and for some reason, we’re all just going along with the idea that what they’ve done is somehow different than unleashing a deadly disease on humanity. As if they’re somehow removed from responsibility once it’s in the buyer’s hands because it’s a different category of weapon.
I remember a year ago or so, I was reading about NATO and concerns over A.I. use triggering article 5. I didn’t understand what tf they meant, but it’s pretty obvious now. So why are we pretending these guys aren’t war criminals just like the people who purchased and used their weapon against other humans?
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every DayEnglish1·19 days agoThe Peter Thiel Paradox (also the name of my new wave band) “It’s inevitable/you’re only fighting progress, and any regulations will turn it into an authoritarian nightmare. Which is what it’s turning into anyway because it’s simply inevitable. So stop trying to resist by forcing regulations on this inevitable authoritarian nightmare that we had no way of stopping.”
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Trump’s Golden Dome: Costly, Wasteful, With Contracts for PalantirEnglish1·25 days agoI ended up looking into it
🙄 That dude is such an ass kisser
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Trump’s Golden Dome: Costly, Wasteful, With Contracts for PalantirEnglish0·25 days agoThiel is currently in the limelight for having mentored, financed, and boosted Vice President Vance. In sum, Thiel employed Vance in his Silicon Valley venture capital firm right after law school, helped Vance start his own venture capital firm, introduced Vance to Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2021 and got Trump’s endorsement for Vance’s Senate race, and contributed a crucial $15 million to Vance’s Senate campaign.
Does anyone know how Vance ended up in silicon valley after law school? Was he recruited at Yale?
I have wondered for a while if Peter Thiel saw him as a chance for a rube/dark Jimmy Carter.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL "Pro-Life in the Streets, Pro-Choice in the Sheets". Disgraced GOP, staunch Pro-life Politian Tim Murphy Coerced Mistress to Abort Affair Baby.English0·1 month agoMy bad article just says abortion pill. Not sure what drug it is
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL "Pro-Life in the Streets, Pro-Choice in the Sheets". Disgraced GOP, staunch Pro-life Politian Tim Murphy Coerced Mistress to Abort Affair Baby.English0·1 month agoRemember that guy from Trump’s first administration that looked like he’d been copied and pasted from a late 90s video game?
Not him
This one:
He brought his pregnant girlfriend a smoothie with a
Plan Babortion pill? crushed up inside of it to force her to abort without her knowledge.Then he tried to sue for libel when the story was published, but a judge ordered that he had no basis and made him pay the other party’s legal fees instead.
Trumpworld’s Jason Miller Must Pay Gizmodo Thousands for Accurately Reporting Insane Story About Him
So prolife he had to pretend to be doing something thoughtful for her and the baby when he straight up poisoned his girlfriend without her consent.
Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPto Technology@lemmy.world•US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in ChinaEnglish0·1 month agoI don’t even believe there’s hierarchy other than people are subservient.
We never should have allowed the supreme court to tell us that corporations=people. It’s only inevitable that if corporations are people, and the government is supposed to be elected and controlled by the people, then corporations=government.
The corporations are now the state that controls all of us. The government is not supposed to be run like a business where workers toiling under greedy shareholders are driven to an early grave in exchange for fewer and fewer bread crumbs.
When the workers strike, the business collapses, and when the people finally refuse to keep the country running for the greedy shareholders who believe they’ve rightfully purchased it, so will the government.
That’s exactly why they need this surveillance network in place to spy on everyone and crush dissent before it can occur.
This is really interesting but I have to say this dude also did sound legit nuts.
His vision quest in the woods started bc he was grieving his family leaving him. But, his wife took the surviving kids and left bc she blamed him for the death of their 2 yo daughter who died of diphtheria. She blamed him bc he had “corrected” or “disciplined” her right before she died. Maybe this is jumping to conclusions but that honestly sounds pretty awful, and I really can’t imagine a rational reason you would need to “discipline” a 2 year old suffering from diphtheria… Honestly, good for the wife.
Then once he started telling people about his visions, he was sent to a mental institution but escaped. After he escaped, he said he had another vision that God would destroy that place. Several weeks later it was “struck by lightening” and burned to the ground… K.
Then he re-married a lady with her own children. His step kids would recount to their own kids their memories of their step dad, and how he would often need to leave and go out into the woods by himself for a while to have his visions…
I’m sorry to judge, but when reading between the lines being presented about the legend, I have to say he kinda gives off bad vibes. It is definitely an interesting story though.