Of course Niantic used Pokemon Go for location training on autonomous weapons, but we weren't worried because it was just a fun game that got people outside.

Of course Snapchat and Instagram used filters to train facial recognition, but we weren't worried because it made our selfies look better and that puppy tongue was so cute.

Of course 23&Me was building a blood quantum database, but we weren't worried because we were curious about our background and it was just harmless fun.

We've been training a surveillance apparatus beyond the wildest dreams of any dictator this whole time.

We weren't worried because it's not like a bigoted authoritarian regime would rise and start abusing it, right?

...right?

If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.

If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.

This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.

🐾 A Turkish Van cat, prized for this exact odd-eyed trait - one blue eye, one green.

#caturday #CaturdayEveryDay 🐾

📷 Source: mycatbreeds.com (uncredited photo — there is no written or formal evidence confirming original photographer or breed registry verification).

How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician

by Scott Neuman

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5848013/algorithm-word-week-etymology

The Concise Book of Calculation by Restoration and Balancing at @wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jabr

The algebra of Mohammed ben Musa at @internetarchive
https://archive.org/details/algebraofmohamme00khuwrich

#Books #mathematics