Our shul just sot a barely polite email from me regarding the one they sent out this morning....wanting everyone to provide pictures of themselves to put on a *google* community directory online.
What the absolute fuck? Who is suggesting this to Jewish congregations?
We go to protests. We have lgbtq friends and family we may need to shelter.
And we're Jews. Re-migration absolutely will apply to Jews. It will apply to all non-christians and non-whites. They will strip us all of citizenship and send us deportation orders at some point if the coup cannot be stopped (and they're not going to consent to being voted out, class - and even if they do this time, they won't next time, that's for sure).
There's no need to make it easy for them.
There's no need to give Palentir's facial recognition system more data. (Drivers License picture are notoriously awful, and the right makeup can obfuscate those.)
People, please start taking surveillance seriously. Google data mines everything you upload.
The way AI is being pushed onto workers on a global scale has to be the dumbest thing to ever happen in the work space. Executives are getting hysterical over something they don’t even try to understand and even governments shower companies in subsidies if they do anything with AI. Of course the only result so far are mass layoffs and exploding costs for energy and hardware. All the while economies are crumbling everywhere because of course they do when mass unemployment sweeps around the globe. And again, governments everywhere are subsiding this crap with tax payer money. What’s even worse than all of that is the insane environmental damage all of this causes. But I’ll have to cut myself short here because I’m just getting increasingly upset here.
I guess what I’m trying to say is: We’re funding our own decline in rapid speed. Human stupidity has found a new peak in 2026 and it’s not even close. I knew the way AI was advertised was completely overblown years ago but I never anticipated it would get this bad this quickly.

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