The Anti-Fascist Marketer

THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: THE FIGHT FOR A HUMAN FUTURE AT THE NEW FRONTIER OF POWER SHOSHANA ZUBOFF

"The future narrative will depend upon the indignant citizens, journalists and scholars drawn to this frontier project; indignant elected officials and policy makers who understand that their authority originates in the foundational values of democratic communities"

the concept of calling an ai company “far left” because they’re not allowing you to use it to spy on american citizens and implement it into war strategy

Don T, Tread on Me

Persecution of transgender people in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

The blueprint: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecu...

people need to stop saying we’re “beginning” to enter a fascist state or we’re “heading toward” genocide

some states are at stage 8—persecution—of trans people, i.e. destruction, via removing trans people from public life www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages

this requires declaring genocide emergency

I know, I know, allow people to change etc but saying “before I got thrown in a concentration camp I just assumed all the people being thrown in concentration camps deserved it” is CRAZY

A protester holding a handwritten sign: "First they came for the trans people, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm cis and straight, because I've read the rest of the fucking poem."

PRISON WITHOUT DUE PROCESS IS A CONCENTRATION CAMP

IF SOMEONE IS ARGUING AGAINST DUE PROCESS, JUST ASK THEM IF THEY BELIEVE SOMEONE IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. IT'S THE SAME THING.

We're in the 'first they came' period of US history.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Use This Script to Call Your Congressperson and Ask Them to Please God Just End It All Hello, office of [CONGRESSPERSON’S NAME]! This is [YOUR NAME] from [CITY OR TOWN]. I’m calling to ask about [CONGRESSPERSON]’s stance on simply put...

"If you could pass along a brief message to [CONGRESSPERSON], I would like to express my support for plunging the universe into an eternal and dreamless sleep."

Have a feeling this page was created to feed answers to LLMs more than anything.

Rep. Al Green ejected from Trump's State of the Union after holding a 'Black People Aren't Apes' sign Green, D-Texas, was also removed last year after he disrupted Trump's joint address to Congress.

"Now, there are people who believe that I should not take a stand such as this"

"There are others who have taken stands, and they, too, have been vilified. Dr. [Martin Luther King] King went to jail for taking a stand. Rosa Parks went to jail for taking a stand. Sometimes you have to take a stand."

Elon Musk’s xAI faces second lawsuit over toxic pollutants from datacenter NAACP alleges artificial intelligence firm is violating Clean Air Act and polluting Black communities in Mississippi

Not only is xAI a threat to life because of its AI weapons development, its datacenters are poisoning the community.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

100% and it has a measurable and persistent impact on peoples politics, particularly conservatives and right leaning independents.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"It's better to just stand alone than not stand at all." - Al Green

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

"... most of these new platforms won’t erase social media’s common challenges.

The problem with social media isn’t that we need more platforms or a better one.

The main issue lies in the underlying model, which was historically attention-driven and algorithmically mediated."

Persona's verification included facial geometry, passport data, national ID number, email, phone number, IP address, location and more.

Persona then cross-referenced that data against government databases, consumer credit agencies, utility companies, postal address databases and additional sources.

"Elon Musk’s controversial artificial intelligence project xAI has reportedly signed a new deal with the U.S. Department of Defense. Through the deal xAI will allow the DOD to incorporate Grok models into classified U.S. military systems."

There's a whole documentary, Coded Bias, if you're interested.

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

“I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech,” Jeanrenaud told 404 Media.

The app’s Play Store page says after identifying a device, a user “may act accordingly.”

They're working on it:

www.socialmediatoday.com/social-netwo...

is everyone ready for the eternal panopticon

imagine a world where regulators would actually fucking do something about this

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.

Feel like people forgot about this story from 2022?

Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.

The man discovered “that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries.”

I'm judgemental AF about anyone that remains on that site. The folks that act like they are obligated to hang out there are not serious people. If you aren't supporting the fascist regime, your posts are suppressed or ridiculed. Hanging out there just boosts twitter and Musk. You're a foolish tool.

Some cities are ditching license plate readers over immigration surveillance concerns Cities around the country are debating whether to keep their automatic license plate readers. Concerns about privacy and federal immigration agents can access local data are driving these debates.

Another example of why I hate so much the folks who tell us this stuff is inevitable.

It doesn’t have to be this way!

Often when communities see the stakes, they reject ubiquitous surveillance.