death: the high cost of living

hell is empty and all the devils are here. hauntologist and solarpunk. she/her.

[death: the high cost of living @eilise]

when I was a teen in the 90s, I had a foreboding sense of dread about the future. the dystopia that we find ourselves in now surpasses my wildest expectations, as I see almost everyone I know irl ignore an ongoing pandemic and genocide

[Snøw @sn0wh1mb0]

We all need to reject the surveillance state they are pushing. Right now.

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

The entire creation of it, by the guy who owned twitter at the time, is fishy. Rightwing tech bros decided to atomize us before we can unite to take them down. Bluesky was made to ship the shitlibs off and keep them happy in their echo chamber

[Alice 🏴☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @AliceBright_]

"B-but the capitalist started the business. It's not fair to seize it and make it democratically owned by the community!"

Dude, who cares 😭? Radicalization is preferable to living like pic related.

[Mike McMullen 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @truthtrain101]

Here are headlines from the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

Simultaneously, they all want a social media ban. "To protect the children".

Our governments aren't calling the shots; they're following orders.

This is just one example. Every law passed happens in the exact same way in all for 4 countries. This cannot be possible unless each leader of each country works for the exact same people.

Our leaders are not elected; they are installed.

#UK #NewZealand #Canada #Austrailia

[Masked Rogue 😷 🇵🇸 @unMaskedRogue]

Gee, I wonder why youth are depressed. Maybe it has something to do with their leaders flushing their futures down the toilet for a quick buck?

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

🎯 The social media networks were systematically dismantled because the ruling class lost control of the narrative

[Masked Rogue 😷 🇵🇸 @unMaskedRogue]

Note that they haven’t decided there’s enough youth homelessness and hunger in Canada.

This is all smoke and mirrors.

[Dr. StormyWaters @NormanDodd_knew]

He is bailing out Sam Altman. OpenAI cant IPO because they are massively in debt and dont make any money so Altman runs to the White House begging for a bailout and magically 3 days later we get this.
This is the TARP bailouts all over again lol
How "rich" did we get after '08

[Snøw @sn0wh1mb0]

The system only works if we accept the illusion that compliance is inevitable. The second we collectively refuse to download the digital passport, scan the QR code, or opt into the CBDC, their entire centralized grid crumbles under its own weight.

Reject.
It.

[Lost in a Dystopian Hell written by AI Monkeys @lsthart]

All it would take is politicians actually pushing masking and working with the media and public health.

But politicians work for the Epstein class, not the public.

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Bill C-34 creates a social media ban for Canadians under 16 at the expense of all Canadians' privacy.

Sections 26, 27(1), and 27(2) of Bill C-34 require that affected social media platforms “implement age-verification and age-estimation measures designed to prevent a person under the age of 16 from being able to have an account with, or be otherwise registered with,” those social media platforms.

Bill C-34 requires that such measures must provide for the “protection” and eventual “destruction” of “personal information that is collected for age-verification or age-estimation purposes.”

It is not yet clear how this will be accomplished. What is clear is that these measures must be “effective.” Users commonly verify their age by submitting government-issued identification documents, such as driver’s licenses or passports. And, the technology exists for social media platforms to estimate the ages of users through biometric data, e.g., facial geometry, eye shape, skin elasticity, hairline, etcetera.

This age-verification and age-estimation monitoring will not be limited to Canadians under age 16. For social media platforms to determine access eligibility for any user, platforms will have to evaluate the access eligibility of every user.

The goal of Bill C-34 is not merely to remove Canadians under age 16 from affected social media platforms but to keep them off those platforms. To achieve this goal, social media platforms may be compelled to adopt ongoing age-verification/estimation measures to ensure continued compliance.

However affected social media platforms satisfy these requirements, Bill C-34 fundamentally reimagines how all Canadians access social media.

This Bill deputizes affected social media platforms into forcing Canadians to surrender more data as a precondition of participation in the digital public square. This, in turn, raises serious concerns about Canadians' privacy rights and may engage constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure - guaranteed by section 8 of the Charter.

Read the full text of the bill here: https://t.co/BAHnXrsJIR

[🎒Joanna Teglund✊😷🍉Human life is sacred @JoannaTeglund]

When the pandemic hit, I knew it was a bioweapon attack aimed at depopulation, but I assumed that if I was wrong, the items listed below would be widely available within a year/two. Six years have passed, and there has been no attempt to create what's necessary for our survival.

[Age Veri fication Hater 🏳️‍⚧️🍉🌻 @chloetankahhui]

it's genuinely baffling how many Americans don't keep up with British politics, esp when they often foreshadow stuff here

maybe I'm different bc i was raised by a parent from a former British colony who was glued to British media. but i can't imagine living with that ignorance

[Hanner @GangstHannah]

Stop acting like Carney's fascist libs are holding social media platforms accountable, they're not

Google, Meta, etc were all on board with age verification in the US and often lobbied for it.

They want us all to show ID online to know who's a bot so they can sell more ads

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

@JulianeWriter There’s nothing more that can be done.

Unless SARS-CoV-2 starts being taken seriously, the world will descend ever further into an unliveable hell hole.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Social media began as a college yearbook & then somehow it was decided the yearbook committee should be our permanent oligarch overlords & I’m still confused why we’ve allowed this

Of course AI is a terroristic force! It’s a reflection of its creators!

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Ask yourself why elites are aggressively destroying the education system & shoving chatbots down our throats.

Imagine one small set of people who learn how to think while the rest go through life asking a chatbot to do everything for them.

Permanent cognitive underclass.

[death: the high cost of living @eilise]

@Madam_Crass yes, please do.

[Hanner @GangstHannah]

This is just a paid ad for 3 fucking losers who got MILLIONS of our fucking money to help Palantir build a surveillance state.

I don't give a shit what the parasites profiting from GenAI have to say about this shit tech

I want to hear people whose lives got ruined by it instead