Those of us on the academic and research side who have been warning of the threat of the billionaire class, and specifically the dark enlighten neo reactionary sect of techno fascists tried to tell yall this was how it was going to end.
They plan to murder humanity.
@glitchsigils None of the techno fascists and eacc crowd has been subtle about this. They keep saying the plan is forced depopulation through violence and diseases etc.
No, but that’s the point. “Terrorism” is not a word meant to be used with any sort of function beyond undermining movements that challenge capital and imperial efforts. Wrote a piece on this a while back.
Iranian TV host bursts into tears talking about Minabi parents who still go the cemetery every night and sleep there
One parent said my kids were afraid of dark, I'll go there to be with them at night so they don't feel afraid anymore
Guillermo and Zafar have been found deceased on June 17, 2026, in Ocoyoacac, La Marquesa, Estado de Mexico. They have been murdered.
Descansen en Paz, Guillermo and Zafar.
I hope that the people who murdered you are caught and for you to get justice. 🙏💔
AI tools can erode abilities very quickly.
Nature says:
1. Colonoscopy study [1]:
Highly experienced physicians had is a 21% relative decline in finding adenoma when they couldn’t access AI.
“The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.
When physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was UNAVAILABLE.”
2. Software engineers couldn’t diagnose errors in codes [2]:
The average success score “was 50% in the AI group versus 67% in the non-AI group”
“The AI-assisted participants did particularly poorly on questions that required them to diagnose errors in the code, which suggests that they had failed to learn the concepts behind the code that they had just produced.”
📍 “Now you have this very odd disconnect between performance and learning. People can perform at a pretty high level, because they’re basically borrowing skills from the AI, but they are not developing those skills themselves.” - Kevin Crowston [Syracuse Univ.]
Basically:
GPS has de-skilled us in navigation.
Now, AI may be de-skilling us in general cognition.
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Cada tanto vale recordar que Rusia está prohibida del Mundial por su agresión a Ucrania y Bielorrusia está prohibida quién sabe bien por qué, mientras el Estado de Israel no tuvo ninguna sanción por masacrar a medio mundo y EEUU organiza el Mundial en medio de su ataque a Irán.
Carney's admin is turning out to be one of the most authoritarian in living memory, but no one is paying attention because it's happening under a Liberal banner
Happy Juneteenth! Just a reminder that USA never abolished slavery. The 13th amendment actually allows incarcerated people to be used as slaves. This is why our corporate overlords love mass incarceration so much and why they'll never support policies that reduce crime.
Canada is about to pass Bill C-22 the Lawful Access Act.
Here's what it actually does:
— The government can order telecoms to install surveillance devices on their own infrastructure
— The government can order companies to organize your data for government access
— lower legal threshold for police to access your data
— government no longer required to review surveillance orders before extending them
— Companies cannot tell you if they received a government order about you
The debate was cut off by the government before it finished. The amendments MPs voted on were kept secret from the public.
Apple already pulled its Advanced Data Protection feature from UK users after a similar law there. Experts say Canada is creating the same conditions.
The EFF called it a repackaged surveillance nightmare.
The Privacy Commissioner recommended changes.
The bill is passing anyway.
"Protect the children."
"Stop the criminals."
Same infrastructure either way.
Let me explain this notice.#Israel has installed giant cranes in #Gaza equipped with cameras and guns. They fire haphazardly into #Palestinian areas, most of which consist of tents since Israel has destroyed most of Gaza.
That's in addition to the drone warfare.
Israel has become so cowardly they don't even use snipers to kill children. They do it entirely by remote control. Contemptible.
Been in Italy for work this week and thinking again about how setting a country or region up for "tourism economy" is fundamentally a drawn out humiliation ritual for the native people, even worse for migrant workers that are brought in.
Police go directly for the circuit breaker panel to avoid being filmed
This post will be in English, because there apparently is a lot of interest in what happened to me yesterday.
I'm a libertarian danish privacy activist and former police officer and I have been doing activism for about 15 years.
I have had a bit of time to think about my arrest and the actions of the masked police that broke down my door - with no prior warning.
The prefece to the story is, that I in a kind of roundabout and (I think) humorous way published "my two favorite numbers" by spelling out a 10 diget and a 8 diget number with letters. I didn't tell what they ment, but they where prime minister Mette Frederiksen's social security and phone number.
I also published a screenshot of me trying to interview Mette Frederiksen on what app, asking her about her wanting to ban encryption (CSA) and introducing mass surveillance via granting the police intelligence services access to all sorts of information (medical journals, social media posts, DNA registers ment for research and so on).
That resulted in me being arrested by armed and masked police breaking down my door without me having any chance of opening it for them.
When the two civilian dressed masked men entered the apparentment one of them immediately went for the circuit breaker panel to shut off the power to my router. They then removed my Google Nest cameras - because they knew that the cameras contains local storage.
That way they could avoid having video of the (in my view) illegal arrest. Only the few moments before the power is cut was filmed. There is video of me asking them for the charges - and them refusing to tell me (which is illegal). But I can't access it, because they took the cameras.
I'm not even sure if that is legal. In Denmark it is (nominally) totally legal to film the police. That way it is possible to know what happened and it's not just your word against there's.
Denmark and the West are moving in the wrong direction, and it makes me sad.
I've even seen mutuals be like Oh, it'll be fun to go back to pre Internet life.
It's not pre Internet, I know I was there. This will be nothing like the 90's because you'll be surveilled everywhere and whatever you do.
Your cars and phones will spy on you too.