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@Martin_de_Zavala
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Some people who keep talking about "the west" and "western values" here and there fail to understand that one of the most profound and simple values learned from studying western classical texts is this: the rejection of arbitrary cruelty in all its forms. If one does not understand this, one does not really understand what "the west" is really about. Many politicians (and tech-bros) today would fall on the "barbarian" side of history.
"Pugna contra stultitiam est officium plenum temporis"
I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
From Stephen King:
„An industry that once promised flying cars and toil-free prosperity is now betting on brutal dystopia: mass surveillance, economic decline, autonomous weapons, and chatbots that talk children into suicide.“

🇯🇵Análisis | Japón, un paso por delante en el declive en el capitalismo tardío.

"Japón no es un caso peculiar o atípico, es, simplemente, una sociedad que comenzó su declive capitalista antes. Y ese declive parece surreal."

🖋Elika Imanaga.
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Japón, un paso por delante en el declive en el capitalismo tardío

Japón no es un caso peculiar o atípico, es, simplemente, una sociedad que comenzó su declive capitalista antes. Y ese declive parece surreal.

El Salto Diario
One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"
So the US knew the location of the Iranian ship off Sri Lanka bc both the US and Iran were part of a military exercise hosted by India which the US pulled out of at the last minute, presumably so as to bomb the unarmed Iranian ship.
The former Indian FM:
Love how "elitist" now just means "has the audacity to know things." Went to university? Elitist. Read a book? Elitist. Can point to a country on a map? Elitist. Meanwhile a man with a gold toilet is a man of the people.

What is surveillance-fascism?
(a.k.a. what is the Fediverse missing?)

* big data
(collection of tons of private data used for profiling and authoritarian control)
* attention harvesting
(reducing attentionspan and causing addiction)
* ragebaiting
(hatred boosting alorithms & government botfarms)
* hyper-capitalism
(ads, more ads, profit, hidden ads, influencers, interrupting ads, plugs, camoflaged ads)
* AI

#SurveillanceFascism #SurveillanceCapitalism #enshittification #BigData #AttentionHarvesting #RageBait #HyperCapitalism #AI #LLMMeAlone #JoinTheFediverse