#control

tom_s@friendica.ambag.es

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism

Harvard professor Shoshana #Zuboff wrote a monumental book about the new economic order that is alarming. "The Age of #Surveillance #Capitalism," reveals how the biggest tech companies deal with our #data. How do we regain control of our data? What is #surveillance capitalism?

In this documentary, Zuboff takes the lid off #Google and #Facebook and reveals a merciless form of capitalism in which no natural resources, but the citizen itself, serves as a raw material. How can citizens regain #control of their data?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw

wazoox@diasp.eu

A Video Preview of The Anxious Generation for Educators and Legislators

#society #control

No Smartphone Before High School (give only flip phones in middle school)

No Social Media Before 16

Phone Free Schools (all phones go into phone lockers or Yondr pouches)

Far more free play and independence (e.g., more and better recess, and give students the “Let Grow Experience”)

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/solutions-for-educators

wist@diasp.org

A quotation from Mencken, H. L.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
A Little Book in C Major, ch. 5, § 22 (1916)

#quote #quotes #quotation #behavior #churchandstate #command #control #dictate #mandate #Puritans #theocracy
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/mencken-hl/26969/

tpq1980@iviv.hu

Mass #human interaction with #AI is #training AI. Image #generation from #text is training AI to "understand" visual #stimuli. Conversational #interaction is training AI to "understand" human #communication.

Elites #funding AI are using mass human interaction with AI as #free training to #build human replacements. AI is to serve #elites, not to serve the general human populus.

Elite's servants will claim #corruption necessitates AI take over #leadership & #security roles. Corruption is deliberate as part of a faux #Hegelian #dialectic.

AI is a #tool performing #tasks in accordance with the #goals of its #controllers. Elites never permit potentially #transformative #technology to enter the public domain without ensuring their #control over it.

anonymiss@despora.de

What's Behind the Rising #Conflict in Eastern #DRC

Source: https://www.voanews.com/a/explainer-what-s-behind-the-rising-conflict-in-eastern-drc-/6690258.html

More than 100 armed groups operate in eastern DRC, an unsettled region where conflict has raged for decades but has escalated in recent months.

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Fueling the #insecurity is a complicated brew of geopolitics, ethnic and national rivalries, and competition for #control of eastern DRC's abundant natural #resources.

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"The DRC produces more than 70% of the world's #cobalt" and "holds 60% of the planet's #coltan reserves," the industry website #Mining #Technology reported in February, speculating that the DRC "could become the Saudi Arabia of the electric vehicle age."


#politics #crime #problem #war #terror #corruption #economy #finance #economy #capitalism #humanRights #environment #news #military #Africa

digit@iviv.hu

How They Secretly Control Us

#agnotology #silentweapons #theyareusingyou

TABLE OF STRATEGIES

Do this: To get this:
Keep the public ignorant | Less public organization
Maintain access to control points for feedback | Required reaction to outputs (prices, sales)
Create preoccupation | Lower defenses
Attack the family unit | Control of the education of the young
Give less cash and more credit and doles | More self-indulgence and more data
Attack the privacy of the church | Destroy faith in this sort of government
Social conformity | Computer programming simplicity
Minimize the tax protest | Maximum economic data, minimum enforcement problems
Stabilize the consent | Simplicity coefficients
Tighten control of variables | Simpler computer input data -- greater predictability
Establish boundary conditions | Problem simplicity / solutions of differential and difference equations
Proper timing | Less data shift and blurring
Maximize control | Minimum resistance to control
Collapse of currency | Destroy the faith of the American people in each other.

but hey, #MaybeTheyCare


#destroying : #family #faith #freedom #funds #fun #publicorganisation #defense #wealth #resistance #democracy #republic #constitution #intelligence #education #autonomy
#creating : #conformity #control #ignorance #problemreactionsolution #reactions #pricemanipulation #destitution #desperation #dumbeddown #dumbdown #plasticwrap #consent

much more to see in the document, but that table (as #vobes highlighted) is quite concisely telling.

https://educate-yourself.org/cn/silentweaponsquietwarsmay79.shtml #1979 #1954
saw it on https://rumble.com/v3s6cjj-how-they-secretly-control-us.html