They think in hierarchy and give us data structures like org charts to distribute that meme, manufacturing consent
God on high, down to priests…etc…king on high…baron…etc…most people never learn to talk around the imagery.
Futurists have been suggesting the fall of nation states is at hand as cities begin to chafe under outsider rule. Of course then you just have local hierarchy.
I’m done seeing the public as capable political agents. The Roman Catholic notion everyone is their own moral agent has allowed people to think their actions only have consequences they choose them to have, as they optimize for increasingly specific stats with little real network value.
Given the number of imprisoned found innocent over time, some models suggest up to 25% of the incarcerated population are innocent.
Layer on those in prison for minor drug crimes and it goes up dramatically.
Everything is quantifiable. The dimwitted elders in charge prefer you don’t think like that. Just abide the story; senile elders raised in a era of worse education standards, social standards, toxic leaded gas clouds, paranoia inducing world wars and cold wars are clearly the most capable leadership
It proves he thinks everyone will follow along anyway
It proves Apple’s data labels and growing awareness digital ads drive little business, which proved Facebook is a non-contributor to the economy in a real way
Zuck is just looking to keep his good times rolling as interest fades. This isn’t courage, this is “the writing is on the wall, let’s try something sooner than later.”
I use a pin code or thumbprint to unlock my iPad and login to Apples store
I can root it and install alternative store
What alternative software can I run on Occulus?
That and all the extra engineering for managing users for business reasons not technical wastes real resources to prop up a technology company that isn’t interested in novel discovery, but servicing contemporary business obligations
If they’re so smart and capable of pulling useful metadata off unstructured data, why do they need me to maintain a specific profile?
Really kind of feels like they rely on having concrete data and the meta part is marketing
I’d like to see a UI that abstracts Wireguard behind contact management UX
If I’m connecting to someone via that app it’s over a Wireguard tunnel. On desktop, let me drag files over, append to a synced message thread (stored in SQLite or something simple)
Open source design focused on beating desktop operating systems when it’s strength was always networking.
All the attention is on building tech for corporations to satisfy political memes. It doesn’t have to be if software people built different software
Behind every big corp is a well armed government and police apparatus
Given how many Fortune 500 companies have died even in prosperous times since the list started, I’m gonna file this away as “manufacturing consent to maintain the status quo.”
Corporations are not literal machines or organisms. They’re a social acquiescence given the reality of biological need at scale. The logistics are necessary; the behavior is necessary; the ownership angle is propaganda.
This isn’t so shocking as history alone makes it clear society operates on aristocrats legalizing externalizing effort.
They own everything and role play as if making investment choices is work but… they own everything so the monopoly outcomes are guaranteed.
Figuratively the class warfare was fought and won, and effort to fight for the public was deflected back as selfishness.
Class aristocrat:
def todolist:
While breathing:
leverage wealth to buy more useful property to extract wealth selling disposable property
Source: me, an aristocrat with a patent who earns a few cents for every gadget sold in the US due to some math I wrote down to receive a masters degree. My work did not give rise to the physical phenomenon, nor does it really have anything to do with designing or selling gadgets. It just states an objective mathematical truth. Thanks to everyone’s political belief for enabling my retiring before 40.
Websites can and many do gather various types of location data to have an idea you’ve moved around.
Don’t try to equivocate this away. The technology to enable it is software; software is everywhere. We can use WiFi to echo locate people in buildings. We know what we’re doing in technology.
HUMANS are paranoid by default in order to survive. We’ve seen again and again in history; new technology goes straight into agency control militarization. Don’t be naive.
We’re all doing it because we all watch each other normalize it. Mirror neurons and social obligations; sign up, sign in, consume and let us collect your metrics.
The whole thing is still a pyramid scheme
Trickle down is a euphemism for pissing on people
They think in hierarchy and give us data structures like org charts to distribute that meme, manufacturing consent
God on high, down to priests…etc…king on high…baron…etc…most people never learn to talk around the imagery.
Futurists have been suggesting the fall of nation states is at hand as cities begin to chafe under outsider rule. Of course then you just have local hierarchy.
I’m done seeing the public as capable political agents. The Roman Catholic notion everyone is their own moral agent has allowed people to think their actions only have consequences they choose them to have, as they optimize for increasingly specific stats with little real network value.