The #elites in the equivalent of Plato's Golden Class don't care what kind of system we live in, as long as they continue to maintain & grow their #power. They see the value of #Communism to them as a #control #system, a front operated by their servants in the equivalent of Plato's Silver Class. The #elite are indifferent to our #suffering as long as they maintain & grow their power.

#AI is not a tool to serve us, like most other tools start as, or are co-opted to be, it's a tool to serve the elites. They need us to interact with AI so our interactions can form the #data upon which AI is trained, ultimately to replace us. You're helping the elite build the #dystopia for #posterity. “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”

#crypto #btc #bitcoin #bitcoins #cryptoCurrency #meme #memes #dystopia #wealth #money #fail #civilization #collapse

Do not use Kagi

Always funny how the bourgeoisie will laugh at acceptable free software alternatives, only to then pick paid alternatives to invasive corporate software that have the same quality or, in this case--with the search engine Kagi--are worse. And maybe equally as privacy invading as the corporate crap:

"Between the absolute blase attitude towards privacy, the 100% dedication to AI being the future of search, and the completely misguided use of the company’s limited funds, I honestly can’t see Kagi as something I could ever recommend to people. Is the search good? I mean…it’s not really much better than any other search, it heavily leverages Bing like DDG and the other indie search platforms do, the only real killer feature it has to me is the ability to block domains from your results, which I can currently only do in other search engines via a user script that doesn’t help me on mobile. But what good is filtering out all of the AI generated spamblogs on a search platform that wants to spit more AI generated bullshit at me directly?"

https://www.osnews.com/story/139270/do-not-use-kagi/

#kagi #proprietary #search #engine #ai #privacy #dystopia

"The #Dark Side of #Disclosure" as we examine the #bizarre #reality that #people dressed up as #aliens are trying to #rewrite the #past to usher in a #technological #dystopia.".

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h3uHx18h0e4

#gigi #gigiyoung

Companies that provide survivalist bunkers for billionaires include: Atlas Survival Shelters (Texas), Vivos (California), SAFE (Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments) + Vital RN (Virginia), Creative Home Engineering (Arizona), and Ultimate Bunker (Utah).

Oh, and because this is The Hollywood Reporter, there's a whole bunch of stuff about fiery moats! water cannons! and rotating fireplaces right out of 'Indiana Jones'!

Billionaires' survivalist bunkers go absolutely bonkers with fiery moats and water cannons

#futurology #dystopia

#dystopia

Digitopia is ruining our lives | #digitopia #dystopia #technology #anxiety #attention #depression #sleep #escapism #procrastination #psychology #cognition #affects #mindfullness

'Straightforward dictatorship': CNN panel thrashes Trump's 'total immunity' claims

After reading Trump's Thursday Truth Social post where he said that he deserved complete immunity even if he "crossed the line" into illegal behavior, host Phil Mattingly suggested that Trump was telegraphing that he was "going to do some criming" if reelected.

He then turned to panelist Errol Louis, who outlined the dark implications of Trump's argument:

"It's a pretty straightforward statement of what dictatorship is, right? he said. "A president -- in his case he is talking about himself -- should be able to, must be able to legally do with legal impunity do whatever it is he or she wants."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dictator-2667004022/?utm_source=diaspora

#dictator #dictatorship #dystopian #Trump #dystopia #America #DemocracyInDanger #AmericaLost #criminal #illegal #crimes #FreedomLost #executions #lawless

As you already know, what the MAGATs are working toward is what every sane person fears.

In case you can stomach the gory details, here they are:

Agenda 47: Trump's & the GOP's Dystopian Nightmare Plan for America Revealed

If you thought it can’t happen here, I have an old Sinclair Lewis book to share with you…

By Thom Hartmann

FTA: If Trump is re-elected, he’d be America’s 47th president, so he’s named the plans for his second term “Agenda 47.” At best, it’s a dystopian nightmare: at worst it means ending our current system of American government; aligning the US with Russia and other autocratic nations; and the USA leading the charge against democracy and in favor of authoritarian, strong-man forms of government across the world.

Over at his website, Trump lays out the details of his governing agenda, complete with short videos promoting each of the steps he plans to take. They, and his many statements about future plans, include:

[Each of these broad goals is accompanied by horrifying details that are worth reading. "Agenda 47" is a recipe for fascism. In case you don't believe that now ("Surely, all this talk of 'fascism' is hyperbole!"), you will understand it after reading the details. If you are sane, you should read it just to have an idea of what might be in your future. And if you like fascism, you should read it as an instruction manual.]

Criminalizing homosexuality...

Destroy academic freedom and gut our public schools...

Gut the EPA, OSHA, CPSB, IRS, the Labor Department, and other federal agencies that keep our air clean, our water pure, and protect average Americans from predation by the morbidly rich and their corporations...

Destroy the media and the truth...

Turning America into a vigilante police state...

Corrupting the federal government...

Making the nation’s police into Trump’s private enforcers...

“Freedom cities”

OK, this one deserves a bit more detail for those who don't bother to read the whole article in case you, like I, do not immediately get the reference:

... Trump is promising to build “freedom cities” in his second term. The main feature he’s discussed is that people will get around in them in “flying cars.”

While it’s being portrayed as a goofy stunt designed to make him seem like an imaginative idealist, in fact there has been a movement among rightwing billionaires for some time to create cities that they basically run as little feudal fiefdoms, the same way the morbidly rich run their companies and their football teams...

Ending democracy across Europe and the world...

Even more horrific than you're probably imagining.

#Trump #USAPolitics #Dystopia #Fascism

https://hartmannreport.com/p/project-47-trumps-and-the-gops-dystopian-3b1

#Dystopia - #Klanglos

#Dominik_Saltevski

https://inv.zzls.xyz/watch?v=F1rUvGcEl2A

Scrapping furniture safety regulations will cost dozens of lives a year, warns fire union

Under the current rules – introduced as the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 – manufacturers must submit furniture to independent testing on flammability. The regulations are estimated to have saved between 50 and 70 lives per year.

But now the Westminster government has proposed scrapping these rules in favour of a voluntary regime. Consultation on the plans closed earlier this year and ministers are now considering proposals.

The union warned that the government was using the pretext of dealing with lithium batteries and other hazards to launch a dangerous programme of deregulation.

https://www.fbu.org.uk/news/2023/12/22/scrapping-furniture-safety-regulations-will-cost-dozens-lives-year-warns-fire-union

#corruption #ToryCorruption #Capitalism #CapitalismFails #FBU #furniture #safety #FireRegulations #deaths #ToryGreed #flammability #FireSafety #deregulation #DemocracyLost #Dystopia #DystopianUK #UK #UnitedKingdom #ToryScum

'Chilling preview': Ex-FBI official warns MAGA threats against judges are just the start

The Colorado Supreme Court justices who ruled to bump former President Donald Trump from the ballot have already been inundated with violent threats that include the warning “this ends when we kill these f---ers,” and that could spell trouble for the entire nation, a former FBI official warns.

He fears ramping up court security and pursuing legal action against the those issuing threats, "might mean the difference between securing our future as a country of laws and letting it slip away."

https://www.rawstory.com/colorado-supreme-court-maga/?utm_source=diaspora

#democracy #America #MAGA #Trump #violence #crimes #criminals #fascism #elections #dystopia #dystopian

🏷️ It’s a Privacy Fash Sale 🏷️

And everything must go!

🟡 Rights: SLASHED.
🟡 Parliamentary scrutiny: SLASHED.

The government is offering welfare surveillance to every benefit claimant, whether you like it or not!

Say no, while you still have a chance:

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#UnitedKingdom #Orwellian .#dictatorship #DemocracyLost #ToryScum #petition #privacy #security #PoliceState #surveillance #ThoughtPolice #dystopia #DystopianBritain

AI and Mass Spying - Schneier on Security

#surveillance #AI #dystopia #1984

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-mass-spying.html

UK Survey - House of Lords

Share your thoughts on how you feel about the unelected House of Lords.

This is a quick, multi choice survey. Less they 30 seconds to complete.

https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/139578/-/1

#UnitedKingdom #UK #corruption #dystopia #Lords #HouseOfLords #democracy #DemocracyLost #ToryDictatorship #ToryScum

The #OpenAI tussle is between the faction who think #Skynet will kill them if they build it, and the faction who think #Roko's Basilisk will torture them if they don't build it hard enough.

Source: https://mastodon.social/@jef/111443214445962022

#quote #ai #future #dystopia #technology #omg #RokosBasilisk

The #anime #series #Pantheon raises the ethical questions we should ask ourselves when using #AI.

source: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/195339-pantheon

Initially, the first half of the first episode starts like a teeny high school drama. You have to sit through it if you don't want to see something like that, because in the end it's all about the big world conspiracy.

The ethical questions that are addressed include:
1) Can poor people be abused as experimental subjects?
2) If you can only upload a brain to the cloud by destroying it, should you do so anyway?
3) What rights does a human #consciousness have in the cloud that can simply be reset or switched off?
4) If an AI escapes from a protected cloud to the internet, what should you do?
5) Can you copy a human consciousness, dissect it and then ultimately only use the parts you need to solve the problem?
6) Can consciousness in the cloud still be considered human?
7) Should we do everything that is technologically possible or should we be aware of the ethical problems before doing so?
8) ...

I find the series highly topical because ultimately the tech billionaires in #SiliconValley are dreaming of this opportunity and are researching it in order to become immortal. Elon #Musk's company #Neuralink is working on #brain implants that will make it possible to upload in the #future.

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#scifi #entertainment #technology #dystopia #conspiracy #economy #ethics #moral #humanity #question #cloud #internet

A man lives in a society where citizens police each other with their mobile phones | Utopia

https://youtu.be/vJYaXy5mmA8

#mobilephones #obey #totalitariantiptoe #sellout #blackmail #dystopia #utopia #technarchy #privacy #slowboiledfrog #wedidntnotice #foryourowngood #madness

UK ‘in violation of international law’ over poverty levels, says UN envoy

Poverty levels in the UK are “simply not acceptable” and the [UK] government is violating international law, the United Nations’ poverty envoy has said ahead of a visit to the country this week, when he will urge ministers to increase welfare spending.

Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, cited research showing universal credit payments of £85 a week for single adults over 25 were “grossly insufficient” and described the UK’s main welfare system as “a leaking bucket”.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/05/uk-poverty-levels-simply-not-acceptable-says-un-envoy-olivier-de-schutter

#UnitedKingdom #UK #poverty #InternationalLaw #violations #hunger #food #shelter #Dystopia #ToryFascists #ToryDictatorship #ToryFascistDictatorship

Scary as sci-fi - scarier still as it may be as prescient as was 1984...
From Thom Hartmann

Is Trump’s "Brave New World" Coming Soon?

#TrumpVirus #dystopia #GQP #Jan6 #sedition #fascism #propaganda #disinformation #doublespeak