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“The term (political correctness) first appeared in Marxist-Leninist vocabulary following the Russian Revolution of 1917. At that time it was used to describe adherence to the policies and principles of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (that is, the party line).” – Encyclopedia Britannica
The communists killed millions and millions of their people in order to create a utopian society based on equality. In communism, one must be “politically correct.” If you say something wrong you might disappear in the night, never to be seen again. Of course, self-censorship and voluntary compliance are preferred by the regime. Indoctrination keeps an individual within the proper ideological bounds of the state.
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” – William Douglas
Many cannot recognize the threat of censorship, because they are ignorant of the crimes of communism. The public is more aware of the atrocities of the Nazis, as opposed to the atrocities of the communists. This is what happens when universities are bastions of Marxism, and professors are fond of Karl Marx. (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto). My grandpa, who went through the Great Depression, used to say, “People go to university to become socialists.” So this stuff is nothing new! This is what leftists call the “long march through the institutions.” The plan was to infiltrate the institutions of the West in order to transform them from the inside out. The Long March of the 1960s sowed the doctrines of critical theory (neo-Marxism). (Critical theory came out of the Frankfurt School). These seeds produced various kinds of critical theory: critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial/decolonial theory, feminist theory, critical environmental theory, and critical pedagogy. Our children are being taught these subversive ideologies, even though they are rooted in evil. The fruits of these ideologies have produced mass death and misery. They gave us Stalin’s Great Purges and Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Indeed, the communists regulated speech, and millions died.
“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” – Potter Stewart
Regulating hate speech is undemocratic; it is rooted in totalitarianism. Regulating hate speech is a way of enforcing the politically correct doctrine of the day. It suppresses free speech, and it suppresses open dialogue. It suppresses critical thinking, and it suppresses creativity. And it will eventually lead to the criminalization of ideological opposition.
“Misinformation, disinformation, hate speech and other risks to the information ecosystem are fueling conflict, threatening democracy and human rights, and undermining public health and climate action.” – United Nations
The West is losing its freedom of speech. People in England are being arrested for social media posts. In Germany, they are trying to ban a political party. We saw Western governments colluding with big tech to censor dissenting views during COVID-19. Various politicians want to fight misinformation and disinformation. The European Union also wants to crackdown on what it deems as misinformation and disinformation. What they are doing, however, is fighting against freedom of speech—against freedom.
“The proliferation of misinformation and disinformation threatens to erode the credibility of public institutions and limit their capacity to implement policies that enhance public well-being.” – World Bank
When central bank digital currencies and social credit scores are implemented, you better watch what you say or do. If you say or do the wrong thing, you will have your money frozen. You will be like the Canadian truckers, who had their bank accounts frozen during COVID-19. With quantum computing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven technologies, a surveillance apparatus is being built. This Beast system will be an authoritarian dystopia like the world has never known.
“In this case wisdom is needed: Let the person who has understanding calculate the total number of the beast, because it is a human total number, and the sum of the number is 666.” – Revelation 13:18
Political Correctness is a perfect example of the hive mind. In reality Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism, and it is of the spirit of antichrist. But when the antichrist comes to power, he will unveil the ultimate hive mind. “The whole world marveled and followed the Beast. All who live on the earth worshiped the Beast, saying, ‘Who is like the Beast?’ The Beast had authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.”
Take the Mark of the Beast, be one with the Hive, one with the apparatus, one with the Machine. Its tentacles will control you—a consolidation, a network of minds, the ultimate Hive Mind. You will be a hybrid, a new creation made in the Image of the Beast. Algorithms, feedback loops, possession, you will bear his name, you will bear his number. You will be a child of the Dragon. You will be one with the Head. You will be one with your god.
The Zombie apocalypse: zombies who cannot think for themselves; Human hybrids, who are a microchip short of brain autonomy, a microchip short of a brain. Whoever controls your brain controls you. Welcome to the Twilight Zone, where truth is stranger than fiction. Frights, camera, h-action, your future will be terror-ific! HAHAHAHAHA! Tales from the Crypt!
My next book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, Sept 2023).
It lays out a detailed plan to disenshittify the internet while giving users a safe and easy path to escape from Big Tech's walled gardens.
Because Amazon's Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks (Audible has a mandatory DRM policy), I make my own audiobooks and pre-sell them on Kickstarter.
Please check out the campaign and consider pre-ordering a DRM-free audiobook and/or ebook, as well as the Verso hardcover:
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A group of miserable men walking in a circle (Van Gogh's 'Prisoners'); they are cupped in two giant hands, between which protrudes a raygun that is bathing them in a sinister yellow-red light. In one corner sits a supremely self-satisfied business man, reclining in a comfortable chair, surrounded by fluffy clouds. The background is a hellscape of red smoke and brimstone.
“Postmodernism refers to the state of culture where the media is produced in such staggering quantities that it has crossed the boundaries into reality itself and hyper reality prevails.”
Stare at your screens, your brains rewired. Eyes to your screens, you’ve been dumbed down. Your vocabulary is shrinking, your attention span is gone. Who cares about wisdom, when you can watch TikTok? Look into your screens of false reality. Let them consume you with empty illusions. Let them kiss you with distractions. Embrace them tightly. Love them wholeheartedly. Dance with conformity. Waltz with surrender. Cuddle with collectivism. Despise individualism. Divorce free thought. Abandon critical thinking. Make love to wokeism. Give birth to anti-intellectualism: there are more genders than colours of the rainbow. However, if I say there are only two genders, I might get censored, I might get banned, I might get expelled, I might lose my job. Even worse, I might get jailed by the speech police—the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Release the hounds! Digital algorithm hounds, track down all dissenting voices. Big brother censors will torch dissenting language. Big tech censors will snuff out dissenting opinions. Practice your fire suppression, incinerate all opposing ideas. We can’t have two sides of the story. “Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”
Though the media is owned by a few, there’s not a monopoly on information. Though Trudeau has bought off the corporate media, it’s not a form of fascism. The internet isn’t used for surveillance. And social media isn’t antisocial. We’re not erasing self expression. We’re not scrubbing independent thought. We love rational people. “Forget them. Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.”
We must digitize all that can be digitized. Why use real books? Let’s use ebooks. Why go to school? Let’s have school online. Why go to work? Let’s work online. Why go to the store? Let’s shop online. Why use physical IDs? Let’s use digital IDs. Why use cash? Let’s use digital currencies. Why use real wallets? Let’s use digital wallets. Why think? Let’s use artificial intelligence. Why live in reality? Let’s live in virtual reality. Why be human? Let’s become transhuman. Enjoy the mindless entertainment of your screens. Enjoy being socially engineered. Enjoy being fact checked. Enjoy being indoctrinated. Enjoy propaganda. Your behavior is changing, you’re leaning less and less, you cannot think for yourselves. “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other.”
University fascists, burn down all dissenting debate. Raise a ruckus, get opposing speakers cancelled. Blow your whistles, beat your drums, and drown out dissenting voices. We’ll torch your ideas, we’ll incinerate your opinions. We can’t have different ideas, because we’re collectivists—we’re all supposed to think alike. We don’t want a free marketplace of ideas, because we don’t want to refute concepts with sound arguments. University is not about free speech and diversity of opinion. University is about indoctrination and groupthink. “But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”
Welcome to a society that is obsessed with their screens. They struggle to look away from their screens, they struggle to think, they struggle to communicate with those in the real world around them. They are lost in their digital reality, they are lost in their virtual world. They are distracted, they are naïve. They are complacent, they are submissive. They are mesmerized, they are hypnotized. They all mumble the same things, they spew out the given narrative: social distance; mask up; take the jab; don’t visit your dying grandmother; don’t go to work; shut down schools; shut down gyms; shut down society. If you don’t conform your bank accounts will be frozen, your businesses will be locked up, your churches will be fenced off, your pastors will be fined and arrested as well as your dissenting politicians. Many of the screen watchers, however, agreed with their screens: think-dissenters are bad! Some even said: we should round up those anti-vaxxers and kill them. “But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.”
What, you’re a nurse, and you posted an alterative view of covid? Come into my office, we’ll have a talk! If you continue expressing such viewpoints, we’ll fire you. What, you’re a doctor, and you’ve been expressing doubts about the vax? We’ll have to investigate you for spreading misinformation. We’ll fire all unvaxxed medical staff; as a consequence, many clinics and emergency rooms will shut down, and there will be longer waiting times for medical treatments. We’ll pass a bill to punish all doctors who speak out against our medical policies. If they are found guilty we’ll fine them $200,000, or give them six months in jail, or burn their medical licences. Doctor, can I have Ivermectin? No! I don’t want my life ruined on account of my medical opinion. What, truckers what to protest covid lockdowns? We’ll just use the WAR MEASURES ACT against those domestic terrorists. We’ll arrest you, we’ll seize your trucks, and we’ll freeze your bank accounts. We’ll use the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as our goon squad. Our woke leader, Mr. Blackface Trudeau, has bought off the corporate media. So the fascist government/corporate media will push the desired narrative. We’ll also pass bills to control as much of the internet as possible. Yet we’ll give a Nazi a standing ovation in Parliament. And I, Trudeau, admire China’s basic dictatorship. “Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”
Let’s introduce Digital IDs, CBDCs, Social Credit Scores, and Universal Basic Income. Let’s enslave the clueless zombies, the useless eaters who are disconnected from reality. The wolves will lead the sheeple like sheep to the slaughter. Lost in their entertainment they will put up little fight. They’ve been trained to follow, to be soft and weak, and to not resist. We’ll microchip them like animals. We’ll Mark them like beasts. We’ll tattoo them with the identification tag number: 666. Welcome to the Beast Tracking System database, where all your dystopian nightmares will come true!
At the end of Fahrenheit 451 the city is bombed. Woe! Woe to you, great city, dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls! In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin! Its labours are only fuel for the flames, its work will be destroyed by fire!
“Montag felt the slow stir of words, the slow simmer. And when it came to his turn, what could he say, what could he offer on a day like this, to make the trip a little easier? To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that. But what else. What else? Something, something . . . And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Yes, thought Montag, that’s the one I’ll save for noon. For noon... When we reach the city.”
Key: cyan, surface web; red, deep web; magenta, dark web.
100% = 100 □, 1 p = 1‱, □↔□ 1 p
REFERENCES
E.G.F. Regina 2024: Fastest computers 1940-2029.
J.H. Kirchner & al. 2023: New AI-written text classifier.
G. Brockman & al. 2023: GPT4 technical report.
A. Albert 2023: GPT3.5 DMO v2 prompt.
X. Mi & al. 2021: QPU time-crystalline eigenstate order.
A. Wack & al. 2021: CLOPS measurement.
F. Arute & al. 2019: Sycamore QPU quantum supremacy.
S. Zuboff 2019: The age of surveillance capitalism.
Z. Bauman & D. Lyon 2013: Liquid surveillance.
R.P. Dellavalle & al. 2003: Lost internet references.
S. Zuboff 1988: In the age of the smart machine.
TOR · VPN · BC · SE · IS · IoT · HW · candl · UBO · Ƀ · BD · SC · wa · TYDKYDK · C3301 · WRTC · GAIA-X️️ · OSINT · LLM · AG/S-I · t2i · SR · JB · VA · HPC · IEEE754 · TOP500 · Graph500 · Green500 · QPU
"What I find really scary, though, is the media. Especially television, it’s so limited as to what it shows. And when that gets out, it really makes people biased, and creates an illusion that the tiny detail they focus on is the whole picture. When I was out in front of Kodemmacho Station, certainly that one block was in an abnormal state, but all around us the world carried on the same as ever. Cars were going by. Thinking back over it now, it was eerie. The contrast was just so weird. But on television they only showed the abnormal part, quite different from the actual impression I had. It just made me realize all the more how frightening television is."
Okuyama Masanori interviewed by Murakami Haruki,
‘UNDERGROUND’
horcruxes:
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A towering figure with the head of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' surmounted by Trump's hair, wearing a tailcoat with a Google logo lapel pin. It peers through a magnifying glass at a distressed, tiny Uncle Sam figure perched in its monstrous palm.
Image:
Cryteria (modified)
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg
CC BY 3.0
pluralistic.net/2025/03/08/turnabout/#is-fair-play
A 19th C illustration of a crying baby about to crawl out of a bathtub. The baby's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. A Canada goose flies overhead. The baby's bare bum has a giant splat of birdshit on it.
exhibition setup
Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
1-23 September, 2022
"The Curiosity Cabinet of Industrial Property" showcases a collection of dystopian patents, made of some of the most terrifying specimens that have emerged in the age of surveillance capitalism.
All of the exhibited patents gathered here dramatically repel the boundaries of capitalism: by expanding capture processes towards all possible life forms, by implementing sciencefictionesque surveillance systems in every trivial technological apparatus; by deteriorating every aspect of labor conditions; by legally protecting schemes that allow the wealthiest to circumvent the law; or even, by trolling the process of patenting itself.
Placed side by side, these patents represent a look into the future as it is currently envisioned and engineered towards in Silicon Valley. It is the science fiction dystopia of Philip K. Dick turned into sharp reality.
IPPI was originally produced by the Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume, in the series “Futurs non conformes”, curated by disnovation.org, 2016.
Photos by: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
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exhibition opening
Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
1 September, 2022
ON VIEW UNTIL 23 SEPTEMBER, 2022
"The Curiosity Cabinet of Industrial Property" showcases a collection of dystopian patents, made of some of the most terrifying specimens that have emerged in the age of surveillance capitalism.
All of the exhibited patents gathered here dramatically repel the boundaries of capitalism: by expanding capture processes towards all possible life forms, by implementing sciencefictionesque surveillance systems in every trivial technological apparatus; by deteriorating every aspect of labor conditions; by legally protecting schemes that allow the wealthiest to circumvent the law; or even, by trolling the process of patenting itself.
Placed side by side, these patents represent a look into the future as it is currently envisioned and engineered towards in Silicon Valley. It is the science fiction dystopia of Philip K. Dick turned into sharp reality.
IPPI was originally produced by the Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume, in the series “Futurs non conformes”, curated by disnovation.org, 2016.
Photos by: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
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exhibition opening
Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
1 September, 2022
ON VIEW UNTIL 23 SEPTEMBER, 2022
"The Curiosity Cabinet of Industrial Property" showcases a collection of dystopian patents, made of some of the most terrifying specimens that have emerged in the age of surveillance capitalism.
All of the exhibited patents gathered here dramatically repel the boundaries of capitalism: by expanding capture processes towards all possible life forms, by implementing sciencefictionesque surveillance systems in every trivial technological apparatus; by deteriorating every aspect of labor conditions; by legally protecting schemes that allow the wealthiest to circumvent the law; or even, by trolling the process of patenting itself.
Placed side by side, these patents represent a look into the future as it is currently envisioned and engineered towards in Silicon Valley. It is the science fiction dystopia of Philip K. Dick turned into sharp reality.
IPPI was originally produced by the Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume, in the series “Futurs non conformes”, curated by disnovation.org, 2016.
Photos by: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
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exhibition setup
Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
1-23 September, 2022
"The Curiosity Cabinet of Industrial Property" showcases a collection of dystopian patents, made of some of the most terrifying specimens that have emerged in the age of surveillance capitalism.
All of the exhibited patents gathered here dramatically repel the boundaries of capitalism: by expanding capture processes towards all possible life forms, by implementing sciencefictionesque surveillance systems in every trivial technological apparatus; by deteriorating every aspect of labor conditions; by legally protecting schemes that allow the wealthiest to circumvent the law; or even, by trolling the process of patenting itself.
Placed side by side, these patents represent a look into the future as it is currently envisioned and engineered towards in Silicon Valley. It is the science fiction dystopia of Philip K. Dick turned into sharp reality.
IPPI was originally produced by the Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume, in the series “Futurs non conformes”, curated by disnovation.org, 2016.
Photos by: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
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exhibition setup
Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
1-23 September, 2022
"The Curiosity Cabinet of Industrial Property" showcases a collection of dystopian patents, made of some of the most terrifying specimens that have emerged in the age of surveillance capitalism.
All of the exhibited patents gathered here dramatically repel the boundaries of capitalism: by expanding capture processes towards all possible life forms, by implementing sciencefictionesque surveillance systems in every trivial technological apparatus; by deteriorating every aspect of labor conditions; by legally protecting schemes that allow the wealthiest to circumvent the law; or even, by trolling the process of patenting itself.
Placed side by side, these patents represent a look into the future as it is currently envisioned and engineered towards in Silicon Valley. It is the science fiction dystopia of Philip K. Dick turned into sharp reality.
IPPI was originally produced by the Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume, in the series “Futurs non conformes”, curated by disnovation.org, 2016.
Photos by: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
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exhibition setup
Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
1-23 September, 2022
"The Curiosity Cabinet of Industrial Property" showcases a collection of dystopian patents, made of some of the most terrifying specimens that have emerged in the age of surveillance capitalism.
All of the exhibited patents gathered here dramatically repel the boundaries of capitalism: by expanding capture processes towards all possible life forms, by implementing sciencefictionesque surveillance systems in every trivial technological apparatus; by deteriorating every aspect of labor conditions; by legally protecting schemes that allow the wealthiest to circumvent the law; or even, by trolling the process of patenting itself.
Placed side by side, these patents represent a look into the future as it is currently envisioned and engineered towards in Silicon Valley. It is the science fiction dystopia of Philip K. Dick turned into sharp reality.
IPPI was originally produced by the Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume, in the series “Futurs non conformes”, curated by disnovation.org, 2016.
Photos by: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
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exhibition opening
Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
1 September, 2022
ON VIEW UNTIL 23 SEPTEMBER, 2022
"The Curiosity Cabinet of Industrial Property" showcases a collection of dystopian patents, made of some of the most terrifying specimens that have emerged in the age of surveillance capitalism.
All of the exhibited patents gathered here dramatically repel the boundaries of capitalism: by expanding capture processes towards all possible life forms, by implementing sciencefictionesque surveillance systems in every trivial technological apparatus; by deteriorating every aspect of labor conditions; by legally protecting schemes that allow the wealthiest to circumvent the law; or even, by trolling the process of patenting itself.
Placed side by side, these patents represent a look into the future as it is currently envisioned and engineered towards in Silicon Valley. It is the science fiction dystopia of Philip K. Dick turned into sharp reality.
IPPI was originally produced by the Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume, in the series “Futurs non conformes”, curated by disnovation.org, 2016.
Photos by: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
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pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/it-matters-how-you-slice-it/#t...
A scene in which a line of paupers queue up to be given a pie by Uncle Sam, who has been modified so he has Trump's hair. To one side of the scene are three caricatured plutocrats, gorging on pie. The background is a US flag.
Besides the social arguments, there are also strong economic reasons for studying computing. It’s not just software that’s eating the world, but its combination with hardware that dominates the list of the world’s largest corporations by market capitalisation, shown below. What use is software without hardware? www.cdyf.me/computing#eating
The economic weight of Big Tech: Ten largest corporations by market capitalization by YBSLE on Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/3KEU
I have an h-index of 93 because of all the papers citing my papers and saying "don't do it this way". ¹
Epidemiologists believe it highly likely that a journal publishing this paper does not practice PR & must therefore be predatory. ²
The de facto primary criterion for the inclusion of information in WP is TNV, i.e. whether reliable sources state it to be true, not whether individual editors think they can verify it themselves.³
NOTES
1. J. Snider 2009: Top physicists of all time & h-index, reply n.8.
2. U. Elm & al. 2020: COVID-19 & zubat consumption, p. 141.
3. U. Kotniski & al. 2011: WikiPedia Truth, Not Verifiability.
REFERENCES
N. Brendborg 2023: Ancora un po'.
D. Bressanini 2023: Fa bene o fa male?
M. Khan & K. Bergquist 2022: Global publishing industry in 2020, p. 20.
A.A. Elbakyan & A. Bozkurt 2021: Critical conversation.
T. Vigen 2015: Spurious correlations.
J. Bohannon & al. 2015: Chocolate as weight-loss accelerator.
T. Kreutzer 2014: Open content. A practical guide.
R.P. Munroe 2013: The rise of OA.
P. Broadwith 2012: End of the road for h-index rankings.
M. Boldrin & D.K. Levine 2008: Against intellectual monopoly.
A. Sokal 2008: Beyond the hoax.
J.P.A. Ioannidis 2005: Why most research findings are false.
R.P. Dellavalle & al. 2003: Lost internet references.
A. Sokal 1996: Transgressing the boundaries.
G. Steiner 1957: Bau und leben der Rhinogradentia.
L.A. Seneca 65: Epistvla moralis ad Lvcilivm VI, § IV.
MOA · ON · ODE · OE · OI · OSC · OPR · OS · OC · ODA · OG · OK · SA · i10 · HI · PLOS1 · NSFPA · H2020EU · CC · notability · SW · IPT · CoC · DHMO · CG · CT · MF · debunk · fair use · OAth · archive · eb777 · d.pub · core.ac · 404 · Lib · GAIA-X · w-a · avepdf · C1/2/3 · GPS · LJ · mp3 · htm-png-D-ERM-pdf-a/b · gif · txt · wi · p2p · pdf24 · epub→pdf · tiny/small-pdfchef · p-publishing · stigmergy · VK · SLib · PG1971 · yt1s · easyt.io · EAN13+5 · 1°30'0"→1.5°
pluralistic.net/2024/12/03/clementsy/#can-tech
A gagged, bound figure plummeting off the CN Tower, which leans precipitously. On the left, a grimacing Statue of Liberty with Trump's haircut leans into the frame. The background is a hellscape from Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'
In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein. It doesn’t need to be this way.
by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein
Social media big tech giants Youtube, Facebook and Twitter are all working to bring in the new world order and are censoring anything that goes against the vaccine narrative that the vaccines are good for you with their vaccine hesitancy. Google police state monopoly and social media censorship sucks.
NVIDIA sign outside their headquarters office campus on Scott Boulevard in Santa Clara, California, located at 2800 & 2806 Scott Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95050. NVIDIA is best known for making Graphical Processing Units, or GPUs, but also creates System-on-a-Chip, or SoCs, such as the NVIDIA Tegra, used in a variety of mobile applications. NVIDIA owns Arm Holdings, which designs ARM CPUs, and Mellanox Technologies, maker of next-generation networking devices.
pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/r...
A rifle-bearing, bearded rebel with crossed bandoliers stands atop a mainframe. His belt bears the RSS logo. The mainframe is on a floor made of a busy, resistor-studded circuit board. The background is a halftoned RSS logo. Around the rebel is a halo of light.
exhibition opening
Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
1 September, 2022
ON VIEW UNTIL 23 SEPTEMBER, 2022
"The Curiosity Cabinet of Industrial Property" showcases a collection of dystopian patents, made of some of the most terrifying specimens that have emerged in the age of surveillance capitalism.
All of the exhibited patents gathered here dramatically repel the boundaries of capitalism: by expanding capture processes towards all possible life forms, by implementing sciencefictionesque surveillance systems in every trivial technological apparatus; by deteriorating every aspect of labor conditions; by legally protecting schemes that allow the wealthiest to circumvent the law; or even, by trolling the process of patenting itself.
Placed side by side, these patents represent a look into the future as it is currently envisioned and engineered towards in Silicon Valley. It is the science fiction dystopia of Philip K. Dick turned into sharp reality.
IPPI was originally produced by the Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume, in the series “Futurs non conformes”, curated by disnovation.org, 2016.
Photos by: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
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pluralistic.net/2024/09/20/water-also-wet/"#marking-...
A gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern.
Image:
Cryteria (modified)
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg
CC BY 3.0
Fotos von Lonsky / Campact
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When your cell phone comes with Chinese Communist Party contact tracing social credit score software pre installed on it.
pluralistic.net/2024/11/19/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do/#shi...
An early 20th century editorial cartoon depicting the Standard Oil Company an a world-spanning octopus clutching the organs of state - White House, Capitol dome, etc - in its tentacles. It has been altered: to its left, curled within its tentacles, stands an early 20th century cartoon depicting Uncle Sam as a policeman with a billyclub, with a DOJ Antitrust Division crest on his chest. On its right, one of its tentacles clutches an early Google 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button. Its head has been colored in with bands in the colors of the Google logo, surmounted by the Chrome logo. Its eyes have been replaced with the eyes of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Nestled in one of its armpits is the Android robot.
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Cryteria (modified)
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A giant set of balance scales. One scale's platform bears a US flag motif, and atop it stands a mustachioed guerrilla fighter with an impressive hat, bandoleers, and a rifle. On the other scale is an EU flag, atop which stands a muscle-bound male figure standing at rigid attention. Behind them is a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Looming over the scene is an impatient-looking man in a grey suit; in one hand he holds a sheaf of papers; he is staring intently at his watch.
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A giant rotten apple behind sepia-toned prison bars. A worm descends from the prison's ceiling to perch on the apple. The scene is surmounted with Apple's 'Think Different.' wordmark.
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A US treasury printing press, running off sheets of greenbacks, attended by a printer. The printer's head has been replaced with the glaring, hostile eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' and is topped with a top-hat. The background has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
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A large Qualcomm logo sign in front of Qualcomm's Santa Clara office campus, at 3165 Kifer Road, Santa Clara, California 95051. Qualcomm creates semiconductors, software, intellectual property, and provides services for the wireless communication technology industry.
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A cliched hacker-in-a-hoodie figure; inside the shadows of the hood is a Keppler caricature of a tinpot general in a Napoleon hat, brandishing a saber and seated atop a child's rocking-horse.