Monthly Mosh Pit - Mar 26
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March was a belter:
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/monthly-mosh-pit-mar-26/
Société de contrôle : obéissance, spectacle et triade masquée
Contrôle (Deleuze/Zuboff) s'appuie sur : Weil (facilité d'obéir), Fromm (peur liberté), Debord (spectacle), biais status quo. Triade Dumézil (finance/guerre/commodity) naturalisée en compétition darwiniste (Kropotkine contredit). Hilferding/Lazzarato : finance asservit États. #Contrôle #Deleuze #Zuboff #Triade #PhilosophiePolitique #SurveillanceCapitalism #Réification La société de contrôle (Deleuze) —…
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@flyingpenguin/116359973738402333
I first thought this was an April Fool's joke. Holy crap, it's not. I have no other words.
#CIA
#surveillancecapitalism
#authoritarianregime
My browser, and pretty much everybody's browser, has a unique digital fingerprint. Why on Earth do the same websites then need to repeatedly check that I am not a robot??? If I wasn't a robot yesterday, I am not one today either!
Headline: Google Planning an Open-Source Platform for Android Auto
Me: Just crawl in a hole and die, Google. 🖕
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a70928680/open-source-android-auto-platform/
Reflections on an (impossible) escape from capitalism
It was an ordinary Tuesday evening. The package had arrived by courier that morning, but I'd only opened it after dinner, with that silent ceremony I perform every time new hardware arrives – as if opening a box quickly were a form of disrespect toward the object. Inside was a MINISFORUM UM690L. Small, almost ridiculously small. A Ryzen 9 6900HX in a form factor that fit in the palm of a hand. I put it on the desk and looked at it. Looked at it again. And then something uncomfortable occurred to me. I had ordered it from a Chinese retailer, with a credit card, through a completely traceable payment infrastructure, from one of the most centralised and surveilled commercial ecosystems in existence. To build a homelab that would let me escape centralised, surveilled ecosystems.
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https://write.as/jolek78/reflections-on-an-impossible-escape-from-capitalism
From The Register:
"#NHS staff resist using #Palantir #software"
'...Staff reportedly cite #ethics concerns, #privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much..
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#Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/03/nhs_staff_against_palantir/?td=keepreading