@kimlockhartga

My response is to get all my shit and price check as I CHECK MYSELF OUT and leave them piles of crap that is priced wrong.

I'll cost them every pirated cent they tack-on by killing their register availability and stuffing employee go-back carts.

@GGMcBG @kimlockhartga

Beloved and I went out to dinner in Denver, a special occasion, fancy restaurant…girl, I put on heels. And makeup. We get to this place, with the ambience and the candles and the waiter handed me a leather portfolio with a QR code.

I looked at it, I looked at him, I looked back at it, and said “No, I will not be starting this evening with a security breach, thanks. May we please have menus.” And I was fully prepared to walk out if they didn’t have them.

My phone is not your business asset. Do not assume I will provide your infrastructure or architecture for free. Fuck off with all of that.

@MissConstrue @GGMcBG @kimlockhartga

Externalities again !
I wonder to what extent the 'efficiency' gains of technology are actually achieved by moving the costs, and the work, on to customers - where of course it is unpaid labour.

@dacig @ChrisMayLA6 @ReggieHere

@GeofCox @MissConstrue @GGMcBG @kimlockhartga @dacig @ChrisMayLA6 @ReggieHere

Remember the source of these "business models"

1. Oil oligarchs who steal oil from the indigenous & poison the air, land, & water of their neighbors & refuse to pay restitution.

2. Tech oligarchs accustomed to unpaid content & unpaid content moderators.

3. AI oligarchs who stole all human knowledge & are ransoming it back on a meter that they price fix.

4. Justices & politicians so corrupt they don't pay staff

@Npars01

Controlling knowledge is the twenty-first century equivalent of controlling the means of production, but unlike capitalist control of natural resources, tools and machinery in previous iterations, knowledge is both an asset in its immutable form and a weapon when its corrupted to manipulate social and economic outcomes.

@GeofCox @MissConstrue @GGMcBG @kimlockhartga @dacig @ChrisMayLA6

@Npars01

.....it may sound a bit negative, but I think we may be on the verge of a new dark age of information as Big Tech corporates start to poison the wells of free and validated information to consolidate their advantage and drive demand for their new knowledge products.

@GeofCox @MissConstrue @GGMcBG @kimlockhartga @dacig @ChrisMayLA6

@ReggieHere

You remind me of the great Guy Debord, writing in the 1960s...

"The complex process of the production, distribution and consumption of knowledge already gets 29% of the yearly national product of the United States... In the second half of this century culture will hold the key role in the development of the economy, a role played by the automobile in the first half."

@Npars01 @MissConstrue @GGMcBG @kimlockhartga @dacig @ChrisMayLA6

@GeofCox

I wonder what he'd have made of the hype cycle that dictates so much today?

Controlling knowledge won't be enough for people wed to marketing and perception management.

@Npars01 @MissConstrue @GGMcBG @kimlockhartga @dacig @ChrisMayLA6

@ReggieHere @GeofCox @Npars01 @GGMcBG @kimlockhartga @dacig @ChrisMayLA6

I dunno man, unlike Richard Dawkins, who is out here with his full chest talking about his AI girlfriend Claudia, I think Guy Debord would have been training revolutionaries on how to firebomb the data centers. I think, based on his work, he would have seen the utter depravity that we have let capital drag us in to, and would have raised a battle flag against it.

The French are very good at resistance. He would have had pointers. :)