It’s more of a reverse funnel system. A pyramid scheme, if you will.

then exactly what social contract are we upholding

The one where criminals, thieves, scammers, and pedophiles are free to commit whatever crimes they want, as long as they operate on behalf of capital.

Safety for his fellow fascist pedophile Epstein class oligarchs; from the people.

We need to stop them from stealing 1 corporations IP, so tech corporations can continue making monopoly money off the entire human species stolen IP!

It’s only obvious to the 99.9% of humanity who are not oligarchs, so obviously the criminal predators will never have to face consequences for their crimes.

Yeah. That guys “nuance” comment made me read the article, and I’m glad I did, but the end result was my expectation going in; the profit motive of capitalism killed a FOSS OS that could have nullified Americas tech dominance before it even started.

There’s no way to know how it would’ve played out, but I could see Bill Gates’ connected family greasing the wheels of geopolitics to scare the Japanese out of implementing it, or being the catalyst promoting exclusive US proprietary tech rights to Japanese capitalists, or the CIA/NSA arguing that a Japanese controlled FOSS OS would make it harder for them to influence tech standards. Basically, like most things I’ve learned about history, it’s likely that morally and ethically bankrupt, sociopathic, criminals had their hands balls deep in the clusterfuck of a horror show, in many more ways than one.

The main difference is they used to have to do it in secret.

Now they own enough propaganda that they’re divided the entire working class with culture war, and rendered tens of millions mentally-ill.

That’s what all the data centers are for. Every sensor in the world will be wired into the hydra; funneling all its data into mass surveillance algorithms so the fascist oligarchs can determine who is a naughty antifascist, and who is a nice brainwashed pawn or pedophile. Those who are naughty will have these systems weaponised against them. They will lose employment. They will be continuously harassed by law enforcement. They will be blacklisted by grocery stores and other vital services. Eventually, they will meet their fate with the data-center controlled, fully-autonomous killbots.

The entire term of “Artificial Intelligence” is basically a misnomer, false advertising, even fraud. It is merely an advanced “correlation engine”. It is the output of an algorithm, and has no concept of what anything is. It does not “know” anything. It is the result of the 1’s and 0’s humans input as training data or context, or give it access to query via the internet etc; including all the misinformation, disinformation, errors, and bias. There is no intelligence or critical thought. It does not get the difference between causation and correlation. It just responds based on some internal probability matrix or distribution; correlations compressed into weights/coefficients from all of the training data.

The only thing that makes its responses appear stochastic is the randomization seed and context, or other techniques harnesses use to dogfood its own responses into itself. Without those, you can have the exact same conversation, byte for byte, and the responses become evidently deterministic and “dumb”.

All of the “novel” solutions I’ve seen to date are not actually novel at all, having merely applied some technique documented in a far removed discipline, entirely explained by the properties of a gargantuan working memory and no off switch. We don’t call a computer “super intelligent” because it can process trillions of mathematical calculations a second. Those are merely properties we explicitly engineered into the machine.

Ever since I realised that corporations are allowed to engage in fraud, and a litany of other crimes, without consequence I started archiving things directly using a combination of the SingleFile browser extension and full page screenshots, placing them in a web-archive folder.

Every time I purchase anything I save the product listing and order page, along with all associated info, naming all files based on the date of the purchase; the larger the purchase the more I’ll save (product page, warranty, user manuals, etc), and sometimes even a note.md file to document specifics (filter changes, spare parts and part numbers, etc).

I also use this method to snapshot various account pages or interactions like web chat; pretty much anything that future me could possibly need to reference.

It comes in handy extremely often.

Any time you consume media generated by the ultra-wealthy (and unknown sources) always view it through the lens of propaganda to promote their financial interests. This applies 10x for “opinion” pieces.

We should expect high inflation for the rest of your lives. Climate change was always going to cause this, even without an oligarchy of psychopathic criminals and pedophiles.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8HgejSCHRi8

The criminal oligarchy of psychopaths, thieves, scammers, and pedophiles.

That’s why they always conveniently target leftists.

That’s the thing about propaganda. The narrative and purpose remains the same regardless of evidence or the truth.

The grand old pedophiles strike again

You’re kidding yourself. They’re going to be bailed out by our fascist oligarchies, with contracts to use the data centers for totalitarian mass surveillance “to protect our freedom and national security”.

Yeah, flock is just another head in the fascist hydra.

This company failing will have no impact whatsoever on the expansion of the surveillance state, or fascisms implementation of totalitarianism.

This is the idiocracy timeline after all

WeChat is not a whole lot different to a browser/os at that point. It’s basically THE government mandated iOS, which contains THE government mandated app store. A way of forcing everyone to use their walled garden surveillance system even if they have a computer not under the control of the regime, like the entire Chinese diaspora and any foreigner dumb enough to install it.