then exactly what social contract are we upholding

The one where criminals, thieves, scammers, and pedophiles are free to commit whatever crimes they want, as long as they operate on behalf of capital.

Safety for his fellow fascist pedophile Epstein class oligarchs; from the people.

He's arguing that a foreign fascist ethnostate should be allowed to establish their own extremist militias. And this is while he's trying to force through legislation to give police the unilateral ability to clone and search every Australians phones and digital accounts without any evidence, warrant, or probable cause.

Someone needs to check his hard drives. Trying to destroy our most fundamental human rights for a foreign adversary is evidence of corruption and probable cause. If we didn't live in a corporate dictatorship, this corrupt traitor would spend the rest of his life in prison. But we do, so he'll spend the rest of his life insanely wealthy and protected.

It's called propaganda, and they have successfully used it to induce mental illness in tens of millions of people.

We need to stop them from stealing 1 corporations IP, so tech corporations can continue making monopoly money off the entire human species stolen IP!

Only your corporate oligarch overlords are allowed to surveil, peasant!

It's only obvious to the 99.9% of humanity who are not oligarchs, so obviously the criminal predators will never have to face consequences for their crimes.

Yeah. That guys "nuance" comment made me read the article, and I'm glad I did, but the end result was my expectation going in; the profit motive of capitalism killed a FOSS OS that could have nullified Americas tech dominance before it even started.

There's no way to know how it would've played out, but I could see Bill Gates' connected family greasing the wheels of geopolitics to scare the Japanese out of implementing it, or being the catalyst promoting exclusive US proprietary tech rights to Japanese capitalists, or the CIA/NSA arguing that a Japanese controlled FOSS OS would make it harder for them to influence tech standards. Basically, like most things I've learned about history, it's likely that morally and ethically bankrupt, sociopathic, criminals had their hands balls deep in the clusterfuck of a horror show, in many more ways than one.

The main difference is they used to have to do it in secret.

Now they own enough propaganda that they're divided the entire working class with culture war, and rendered tens of millions mentally-ill.

This is a core component of the class war.

For all of history the ruling class have granted a minority of the proles a privileged life, who will play ball and defend their privileged position from the majority (uncle toms, lords, landowners, managers, lobbyists, politicians, even most CEO's).

Most of the richest 10-1% in the developing world earned their wealth through labor, and simply bought property or invested in retirement funds at the right time. They are still pawns, and not the ruling class decision makers — mostly born into so much wealth that they never had to work a day in their lives — who control corporations, political parties, military and geopolitical actions. They are the ones who own the media and propaganda machines, finance the class and culture wars, corrupt our political and democratic institutions, and have prevented our transition away from fossil fuels for 50+ years. Hell most of the 1-0.1% are not decision makers; probably successful doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, entertainers, etc.

That's what all the data centers are for. Every sensor in the world will be wired into the hydra; funneling all its data into mass surveillance algorithms so the fascist oligarchs can determine who is a naughty antifascist, and who is a nice brainwashed pawn or pedophile. Those who are naughty will have these systems weaponised against them. They will lose employment. They will be continuously harassed by law enforcement. They will be blacklisted by grocery stores and other vital services. Eventually, they will meet their fate with the data-center controlled, fully-autonomous killbots.

*terrorist terrorism

Mental illness

"Israel" is a collection of people. Most of Israels influence comes from a relatively small numbers of ultra-wealthy people; many jewish/zionist, but also many fossil fuel and MIC oligarchs who want eternal war in the middle east, and a disproportionately large diaspora of them promoting the fascism in domestic politics around the world.

I've lost count of the number of times I've landed on some billionaires page on Wikipedia, only to learn that they fund raise and propagandize for zionism; half of them aren't even jewish. They just wanna murder innocent people for the love of the game, and I assume extreme mental illness &/or indoctrination.

The entire term of "Artificial Intelligence" is basically a misnomer, false advertising, even fraud. It is merely an advanced "correlation engine". It is the output of an algorithm, and has no concept of what anything is. It does not "know" anything. It is the result of the 1's and 0's humans input as training data or context, or give it access to query via the internet etc; including all the misinformation, disinformation, errors, and bias. There is no intelligence or critical thought. It does not get the difference between causation and correlation. It just responds based on some internal probability matrix or distribution; correlations compressed into weights/coefficients from all of the training data.

The only thing that makes its responses appear stochastic is the randomization seed and context, or other techniques harnesses use to dogfood its own responses into itself. Without those, you can have the exact same conversation, byte for byte, and the responses become evidently deterministic and "dumb".

All of the "novel" solutions I've seen to date are not actually novel at all, having merely applied some technique documented in a far removed discipline, entirely explained by the properties of a gargantuan working memory and no off switch. We don't call a computer "super intelligent" because it can process trillions of mathematical calculations a second. Those are merely properties we explicitly engineered into the machine.

This is the way it should be. Governments around the world have spent decades enriching big tech with public money, when they could have pooled their resources and built FOSS software that benefited everyone.

Same goes for science and everything else funded by tax payers.

Remember, you can't transfer modest sums of money without intense scrutiny — coz tErRoRiSM — but corporations can funnel billions of dollars through fake corporations, run by fake &/or dead people, registered at locations that have never existed, solely to commit tax evasion — a crime you would spend decades in prison for, if you did it at 1/1000th the scale.

This is from the same establishment that argues against your access to encryption — coz pEdOs and tErRoRiSM — but Epstein didn't hill himself, and 99.99% of his pedo establishment accomplices were let off scott-free.

Member how the metaverse was supposed to revolutionise our lives, but they just spent dozens of billions on a shitty VR sim, renamed their whole company over it, then fired tens of thousands of workers when it flopped, but still jerked zuck off for his capitalist prowess?

He's worth hundreds of billions more today! Capitalism is a fucking clown world.

The most fucked up part about this story is that hundreds of Israeli fascists literally stormed the military base the perpetrators were being imprisoned — committing domestic terrorism — in defence of the war criminals, demanding their release.

Israel is a fascist state because its founders spent the last century propagandising its citizens and the entire Jewish diaspora. It's not a surprise the Israeli majority think Palestinians are sub-human and their extermination is justified; that will not change for generations, and only after Israel is globally shunned, militarily neutered, required to return to its original borders, and pay to rebuild all of Palestines infrastructure.

Luckily, we can choose to reject reality and believe whatever makes us feel better.

I feel best believing the biosphere is gonna force humanity to “find out” for the last century of fuckin around with a recklessly unplanned terraform.