Big Technology is not your friend. It's an active adversary that works hard to control every dollar that you spend. It has 4-12 hours a day of your attention that it can use to plant ideas and manipulate your opinions. But very few people seem to understand this.
These tools are getting dramatically more powerful. I don't even know how to drive to the non-chains in my neighborhood because the only decent maps app puts a high preference on chain stores when suggesting places for me to eat.
and this in turn has a dramatic impact on the spending habits of you and your friends. But it's also used to shape your political ideas. Companies only care about data collection because they know it's effective in helping them shape consumer behavior. Which again is mind control
Most people don't think about advertising in terms of behavior manipulation (which is another word for mind control), but that's all the goal has ever been. Brands and governments alike use advertising to shape your sentiments around things like green message bubbles...
We are in a twilight where governments and corporations have started making heavy use of mind control (via data collection + ads) to shape society but the general population hasn't realized yet just how potent modern behavior manipulation has become.
A warm welcome to Steve as he joins the #SiaFoundation! Previously having worked with #Sia at Nebulous before it became Skynet Labs, we're excited to have his experience on the team!
Hosts should expect to see a bump in activity for both contracts and bandwidth utilization. If you have been interested in #hosting for Sia, now is a great opportunity!
“We know that if they can cancel 10, they can cancel 20, they can cancel 50, they can cancel all of it.” @nataliaabrams on why the #cancelstudentdebt announcement is just the start 👏🙌💪
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Quite impressed at how few mistakes there are. This is pretty comprehensive, and though I might challenge how decentralized some of the other projects are, I'd say the overview is pretty accurate.
The Biden administration could have made cancellation automatic, but they didn't.
Most will have to apply. Ridiculously even though they've had a year and a half to figure out what they are going to do they don't have an application ready to go.
Bad sign. Just do it auto
We don't know what the suspected crimes are but I hope there's a lot more going on here than just "you wrote privacy tech software"
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