For people that doesn't understand computers & phone devices, what are your plans when #ageverification , and #idverification in #EU gets serious while avoiding #bigtech and #bigcorps even if they try to make the use of #vpn illegal like in #utah? Is there any way to skip all of it at once in all your devices (laptop,phone)?
I'm tired of reading about how bad is the situation. I want to know what we can do, even if its little actions, and so other people can do the same. Thks!
@mttaggart
Be afraid, very afraid
We will need more smart folks while the #bigCorps are creating systems that will dumb us down.
The robot wars are here and the robots are winning because most folks don't even know the battle is going on.
Right now our only value to the system is that we can answer captcha questions like; check all images with a fire hydrant. Watch out for the time when the robots know what a fire hydrant looks like:-)
#ai #software #democracy is more than voting
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Another step in a preplanned destruction of our democracy in favor of an autocracy run by the #bigCorps.
world-wide, the chinese and russian countries are already run by the bigCorps.
terrorism is a tool by the bigCorps to take down a democracy.
In 2024-09, @stephenfry held a brilliant speech about #LLM #AI and all the dangers if we do not regulate them as soon as possible:
https://stephenfry.substack.com/p/ai-a-means-to-an-end-or-a-means-to
Edit: watch the talk recording on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cw37g39g00
If you do work with - or even worse - for LLMs, please do read his arguments.
Otherwise, human kind is in great danger of becoming easy targets for #manipulation, #greed, #corruption and other dangers.
LLMs are not a disruptive tool like cars or printing presses. They are a concept like #money which is and will be used to control the masses.
This isn't going away. So let's face its dangers and deal with it properly before it is too late.
#algorithms #fakenews #propaganda #psychology #sociopath #bigcorps #megacorps
@mntmn
There are two cost components:
1) the added tax that the conservatives are collecting from the citizens of the USA.
2) the extra profit the bigCorps are adding on because it can hide under the umbrella of the tax the conservatives have imposed on the people.
The benefit of having the #bigCorps collect the #tax is that the corps can add on a little something for themselves. Every gangster knows that the bag-man gets a cut. Its criminality 101.
There is more to #democracy than voting.
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social
The GOP get everything wrong.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/
instead of civil confinement, that is short hand for private jails,
lets have civil treatment for the truly mentally ill in public hospitals..
How about requiring #bigCorps to pay a #livingWage
so working folks can afford rent instead of corporatized concentration camps.
How about funding school programs and civil activities so kids can take pride is some activity besides drug use.
The US #conservatives are breaking a trade-agreement, treat the agreement as broken. It was signed as a single agreement and it falls as one. That includes the part about you changing your laws so their bigCorps can made bigger profits.
Do not respond to the US raising #tariffs by raising tariffs. This only hurts your own people by taxing them too and this helps the #bigCorps.
It is like two children fighting by calling each other poopy-head.
You control your laws.
@AkaSci
You hit the nail on the head.
The #GOP plan to "save" #socialSecurity is to kill the people that need it.
Folks need to remember that our military runs out of funding in 3 months.
We can have congress save Social Security and protect people, the same way that they will save the military and protect the #bigCorps they can just fund both.
We havent been taxing the billionaire class for a long time and it has NOT worked out well for we-the-people.
@SuffolkLITLab
I'm hoping these were sr. executive and not some middle management fall-guy with a big title.
A few more like this and maybe #bigCorps #crime would go down.
How about, have a health ins corp with procedures that systemically denies legit health care claims ; executive board goes to jail.
mfg plant design that allows a river to be polluted; executive board goes to jail.
maybe #capitalism can work if cost are not externalized and decision-makers are held accountable.
Frutiger
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