General Discussion

I wanted to point this out.

I have decided to formally write a long post in the DU Activist HQ about the role of technocracy in the rise of Trump.
Today my dad was mocking Trump for apparently setting a million dollars and some qualifications as the price for entry to the US. He was mocking the notion of buying your way into entry.

That’s bs. It’s a million dollars and fealty to Trump with their Palantir Panopticon.
This mercenary movement has ruined education snd healthcare and of course the environment. And it’s like this rapacious beast that must be fed till nothing remains.

The GOP has destabilised Latin America and has a huge role in driving the very migration they decry and exploit to destroy the public sector, regulation etc.

It’s confounding ..the human brain doesn’t have the ability to grasp this much parasitic evil -some of it tritely banal and the rest malicious and banal.

Anyway I wanted to formally post on DU Activist HQ. I can’t do anything about politics since I am not American or in the US.


But I am planning on doing what I can about the technocrats ruining my home here and my rights sans any RTI and taking over my street.

They are ruining everything. I was looking up AI crawlers that EarlG mentioned in an email to me to get a better sense of what they are and apparently Wikipedia (one of the less sucky parts of the net) along with Stack Exchange..some people seem to think Reddit is less sucky as well.

And they are all affected by those. It really is time for a non joke techlash. These guys are parasites. I don’t mean the random worker in tech held hostage by the need to earn a living.

I mean those creeps at the top. Google is officially now a Pentagon contractor. Of course they are also pretty stupid but they are hijacking all of medical research.
I wouldn’t touch brain research etc done by them with only the kinds of scientists they like..the sellout shills on TED etc and very few of the kinds of scientists I trust.

But well I have to put some thought into it and draft a post with more care than my normal rants that really look as if an insane person wrote them or worse a bot. I don’t know which is more insulting. I guess bot.

and I do have to go work. I saw that creep Nadella shilling AI. Yeah no. Indigenous creep or giant creep, it’s all the same to me.

I know you worked in tech Usonian..or that was my impression. I am not attacking all of tech though I write hyperbolically. I don’t mean it literally. It’s internetese.
But as you rightly point out, these guys.,they want everything..

I have to go offline and work today for sure. But I am going to draft a long post for activist Hq. If it is not directly tied to democratic politics it is still tied to the root issue by now as so much is being done via the net which means control over far too much.
EarlG’s post election analysis was correct imo.

I also feel like Lina Khan is a big part of the reason they really pushed back. I think some labor friendly and regulatory moves by Biden really angered the technocrats. They tried to I think a keep a foot in both camps some via Reid Hoffman etc (unpalatable I know..I get it..I am not so not pragmatic that I say people should turn down what money they can get from peopel pike Hoffman as long as he has no influence..Hoffman may also get by now how Nazi they are and that it might be better to take less influence as the price for not worrying about nazis all the time or that’s my hope. Because it would be a terrible idea to scuttle the progressives and dilute that movement out to merely slow the cancer rather than attack its roots..I am not enthusiastic when I see donations by these guys to the left. But it’s only pure astroturf if it dilutes the message down to nothing and kills the fighting instincts. You need both. They keep saying it is ideological purity while the effects of the right shifting are blatantly obvious. You need more balance and fighting instincts.
I am closer to people like Yasha Levine or Nathan Robison I’ll admit..so well to the left. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get compromise..it’s just about where to peg it at in this extreme a situation. Because it is not really about purity so much as Accelerationism at this point. They really want full control. And not my amazing tech. By rubbish like this:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/wikipedia-faces-flood-of-ai-bots-that-are-eating-bandwidth-raising-costs

It’s not high quality and ..it’s not like German (not Nazi stuff but they legitimately do have very good science and education..or used to..who knows by now..)

I have struggled in science due to the legitimate rigors and difficulties of science.
That was most of it/ but in the last decade or so it’s more like this buggy shit. Some piece of shit AI agent or bad methods that are distracting. It’s such junk….