Because when people write manifestos, they are often trying to convince the reader that they are highly intelligent more than they are trying to plainly explain themselves. They are usually a product of mania.

Teachers use AI to generate assignments, kids use AI to generate answers, teachers use AI to grade answers.

Yeah, we’re cooked.

Your wife is going to be grabbed out of your home and thrown into an unmarked SUV and you will never see her again. And you’ll let it happen because you would rather be a slave to a regime than confront the fact that you’re wrong.

American employers don’t even give you this anymore. You are escorted away by security and someone else empties your shit into a box and hands it to you in the lobby. They are very afraid of sabotage.

Not long at all. Add criminal charges and extradition orders by LA prosecutors against the devs for good measure.

Mismanaged or embezzled?

He means rewrite every narrative to his liking, like the benevolent god-sage he thinks he is.

Seems like a signal jammer is something someone would want if they wanted to fight back against an occupying force that heavily relies on radio communication.

Typically that is a customer-provider relationship, and ideally (but probably not in reality) that relationship is tightly regulated. At best this move is a breach of ethics.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power

-Benito Mussolini, some dude who probably knew something about fascism

I think basically everyone except North Korea is. Anyone who allows goods and people to move through their borders with any level of freedom can theoretically get attacked like Russia did.

I’d imagine it’s a fool’s errand to try and find threads of logic and consistency in the profoundly schizophrenic.

Anyone who builds tools explicitly for mass surveillance of the public is a collaborator, no matter who writes their paycheck.

And don’t let the narrative be “MegaCorp built these tools.” No, human beings with names and ostensibly consciences built these tools for MegaCorp. They are just as guilty if not more so.

Developers like this should be considered collaborators with fascist elements.

Read an anecdote of someone in a similar station who had a client file a complaint against them because their watch was too nice. See, he’s the employee who is servicing the client. He’s beneath the client. He can’t be wearing nicer stuff than the client.

I don’t know how these people look at themselves in the mirror every morning.

I’ve thought about this a lot. I think its more the sheer oversaturation of “culture” than it is a true lack of imagination. People alive today consume exponentially greater amounts of “culture” (for the broadest term possible) than anyone ever before, and it’s not even close.

When tech enables you to experience a movie or a video game or a performer 30 years after the death of everyone involved, in essentially the same fidelity as the day it debuted, “old culture” has a much harder time making way for “new culture.” If Star Wars exists, why care about Rebel Moon or whatever that movie was called?

I think the public consciousness can only maintain cognizance and interest in so much, but at the same time creatives are constantly adding to the Culture Pile. But the more tech enables us to hold on to our past, it becomes more and more difficult to move on, and the majority of new stuff goes unwanted and unappreciated. And so the mass market dives into keeping the old alive with reboots, remakes, remasters, and now AI recreations, because that’s what people respond to.