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USA chcą nie tylko 5letniej historii socialmediów od przyjezdnych, ale też dostępu do europejskich baz danych biometrycznych od UE. Zapraszam do lektury mojego artykułu w oko.press:
https://oko.press/usa-chca-naszych-danych-biometrycznych-dlaczego-to-jest-grozne
If you want to understand the horrifying future these tech billionaire nazis have in store for humanity, it helps to understand what parts of our "glorious past" as a species they're looking to recreate. This interview with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences and media studies professor Anita Say Chan talks a bit about the history of data and eugenics, what it means that guys like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (along with most of Silicon Valley's movers and shakers) are devout believers in eugenicist philosophies, and how that's reflected in their efforts to reshape society in horrifying, and objectively fascist ways. In terms of our discussion about the uber rich fascists who heavily influence the Trump regime they bought and paid for, I'm mostly including this here to point out that these guys have gone on record in support of a lot of openly fascist shit and for the most part, your media pretends we don't already know these guys are nazis; it's not a secret, it's just not "worth mentioning" when media orgs are fawning over technofascist billionaires destroying our planet and our lives.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/eugenics-isnt-dead-its-thriving-in-tech/
Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech
"Big Tech successors like Musk and PayPal billionaire-turned-arms dealer Peter Thiel have overtly promoted fraudulent race science, with Musk amplifying users on X who argue that people of European descent are biologically superior. In response to another user’s deleted post suggesting that students at historically Black institutions have lower IQs, Musk posted, “It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE”—diversity, equity, and inclusion, misspelled. In 2016, Thiel buddied up to a prominent white nationalist, and, the same year, was said by a Stanford dorm-mate to have complimented South Africa’s “economically sound” system of racial apartheid."
#Fascism #Trump #Musk #PeterThiel #SouthAfrica #Nazis #Eugenics #SiliconValley #BigTech #BigData #Billionaires #Ableism #WhiteNationalism #Dystopia #Eliminationism #Technofascism
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115961638502692795
"In Europa wird kein Unternehmen mit der Verletzung unserer Grundrechte Geld verdienen."
Da bin ich mal gespannt!
#x #grok #eu #bigtech #bigdata #unplugtrump #elonmusk #grundrechte
We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA.
We have seen over the last weeks and months antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.
In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.
In The Lord of the Rings, the Palantír always served power.
Now look at Palantir Technologies and ask yourself, did we miss the point of the story… or follow it a bit too closely?
If Tolkien was warning us, why does this feel so familiar?
#Technology #PeterThiel #BigData #Surveillance #Palantir
https://bsky.app/profile/jerradchristian.bsky.social/post/3mcljisp2ra2k
Therefore, if we were having a technical conversation about large language models and their use, we'd be addressing these and related concerns. But I don't think that's what the conversation's been about, not in the public sphere nor in the technical sphere.
All this goes beyond AI. Henry Brighton (I think?) coined the phrase "the bias bias" to refer to a tendency where, when applying a model to a problem, people respond to inadequate outcomes by adding complexity to the model. This goes for mathematical models as much as computational models. The rationale seems to be that the more "true to life" the model is, the more likely it is to succeed (whatever that may mean for them). People are often surprised to learn that this is not always the case: models can and sometimes do become less likely to succeed the more "true to life" they're made. The bias bias can lead to even worse outcomes in such cases, triggering the tendency again and resulting in a feedback loop. The end result can be enormously complex models and concomitant extreme surveillance to acquire data to feed data the models. I look at FORPLAN or ChatGPT, and this is what I see.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #GPT #ChatGPT #LatentDiffusion #BigData #EcologicalRationality #LessIsMore #Bias #BiasBias
Ich mache mal ein bisschen Werbung in eigener Sache und für meinen Arbeitgeber: falls du Interesse haben solltest, eine #Abschlussarbeit im Bereich #BigData / #PredictiveMaintenance / #FleetMonitoring für die #Schienenfahrzeuge bei den Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen zu schreiben, komm gerne auf mich zu und wir können gemeinsam über die Details sprechen.
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AI, Enshittification, Rant [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
@robinsyl +9001%
At best "#AI" is just #BigData in a different packaging, at most it's #WastefulComputing that gets curbstomped by #WolframAlpha & #CleverBot and more often than not it's #Malware that literally #DDoS'es entire businesses because the assholes than run the Trillion-Dollar #AIbubble refuse to adhere to basic #consent as standardized decades ago with robots.txt…
- At one employer I basically had to block #AWS, #Azure, #GCP, #ByteDance & their suppliers just to stop them from constantly DDoSing clients and fucking up our billing of said clients!
#Data is control: what we learned from a year investigating the #Israeli #military’s ties to big #tech
Our reporting revealed a symbiotic relationship between the #IDF and #SiliconValley – with implications for the future of #warfare
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/israeli-military-big-tech
#Gaza #genocide #WarCrimes #AI #Israel #war #HumanRights #BigData #privacy #Orwellian #1984 #dystopian #authoritarian #oppressive
How many professional records need to be breached by a bad actor before the public will care?
Closer looks at the database used by #BorderPatrol show their data is either bad or misrepresented.
Absolutely, 100%, no way, in hell.
I’ll take a 1960s Roper refrigerator over this overpriced, tech-ridden garbage. The sales guy approached me as I was laughing at it and mentioned Samsung has decided to start running ads on them. Folks who fell for the scam can now have ads magically appear in their kitchens.
#InternetOfShit #AIshit #aigarbage #bigtech #bigdata #surveillancecapitalism
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Stainless steel side-by-side Samsung refrigerator with a gigantic iPad, looking thing covering almost the entire entirety of one of the half panels. It’s already showing an error message.
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Another side-by-side only this one appears to have two giant monitors. And advertises AI vision to suggest recipes based on what is already in the refrigerator that it’s spying on and I’m reporting back to advertisers.
Once this infrastructure exists, mission creep is inevitable.
- What starts as ‘voluntary’ becomes mandatory
- A system that is just for workers expands to everyone, including children
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-attend-debate-digital-ids
#PoliceState #SurveillanceCapitalism #ToxicLabour #DigitalID #BigData #Cyberattack #hacking #security #privacy #Orwellian #LabourLies #KierStalin #Starmer
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Invisible Infrastructures : Online Trackers
take a look: labs.rs/en/invisible-infrastru…
#tracker #news #internet #online #surveillance #tracking #economy #cybersecurity #privacy #problem #business #politics #security #bigdata #bigtech #bigbrother #invisible #technology #software #web #www #surfing Invisible Infrastructures : Online Trackers
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Invisible Infrastructures : Online Trackers
Location: Matrix
How We Volunteered for Digital Slavery
Once upon a time, software was free — not in the “free trial” sense, but actually free.
It lived in the halls of universities, passed between curious minds on floppy disks, shared in the spirit of collaboration and discovery. Hardware was the business; software was the art.
Then came a young man named Bill Gates. Fueled by BASIC and caffeine, he learned to code thanks to that culture of openness — and then, he turned freedom into monopoly. Gates dropped out of Harvard, founded Microsoft, and declared that software would no longer be shared; it would be sold. The age of commercial code had begun.
Microsoft’s first weapon was MS-DOS, a text-based operating system that quietly took over the newborn PC world through IBM’s early machines. Then came Windows, the glossy illusion — a friendly graphical interface that promised empowerment while locking users into Microsoft’s walled garden.
Like a corporate version of The Godfather, Microsoft “made offers” competitors couldn’t refuse. DR-DOS? Made intentionally incompatible. Linux? Targeted in internal memos. Internet Explorer? Forced onto every desktop “for your convenience.” The result: a near-total monopoly achieved not by innovation alone, but by control, coercion, and corporate muscle.
Fast forward to today. Microsoft’s empire no longer needs to hide its power — it runs your computer, your documents, your identity. Telemetry, the friendly name for mass surveillance, quietly records how you use your device. With Windows 11, you can’t even log in without a Microsoft account — the digital equivalent of Big Brother’s stamp of approval. Imagine Orwell’s 1984 rewritten for the 21st century: Winston Smith doesn’t fear the telescreen anymore. He bought it, installed it, and clicked “I agree.” Even students are being tracked through Microsoft Office. Their learning curves analyzed. Their data stored. Their digital lives quantified — all under the illusion of “productivity.”
Steve Ballmer once called Linux “a cancer.” But history, ever fond of irony, flipped the metaphor: Microsoft became the cancer instead — feeding on the open-source world it once despised. Today, Windows happily integrates Linux as a feature, commodifying the very freedom it tried to destroy. Microsoft didn’t defeat open source; it absorbed it. Like the Borg. Like the Matrix. Like capitalism always does.
Meanwhile, the cost of this corporate control extends far beyond money. Windows 11’s unnecessary hardware requirements have already forced millions of functional computers into landfills — a quiet environmental catastrophe disguised as an “upgrade.” The planet pays for your shiny new taskbar.
The illusion of control doesn’t stop at your desktop. As Edward Snowden revealed, Microsoft has shared user data with the NSA — turning your operating system into a global surveillance node. When the International Criminal Court made decisions the U.S. didn’t like, its staff found their Microsoft email access revoked. That’s not science fiction. That’s administrative reality. And it could happen to anyone. We once feared governments might use technology to control us. Instead, we let corporations do it — and we pay a monthly subscription for the privilege.
But not all hope is lost. There’s still the red pill — Linux. It’s not perfect, but it’s free, open, and community-driven. No forced logins, no corporate backdoors, no hidden surveillance. Just software built by people, for people. Switching to Linux isn’t rebellion for rebellion’s sake. It’s a vote — for transparency, for sustainability, for democracy. The blue screen of illusion can still be escaped.
#essay #history #software #digital #slavery #freedom #linux #microsoft #endof10 #windows #win10 #windows10 #surveillance #tracking #nsa #snowden #dystopia #economy #business #capitalism #foss #floss #opensource #gnu #backdoor #politics #humanity #future #humanrights #privacy #matrix #system #environment #climate #earth #bigbrother #bigtech #bigdata #BillGats #Gates
Location: Matrix
Bill Gates is listening ... 😱☢️⚠️
Data protection experts criticize the extensive telemetry data that #Microsoft collects from every #Windows #user, which provides deep insight into their #privacy and usage.
#meme #tracking #surveillance #problem #humanrights #ethics #software #os #economy #bigdata #orwell #bigbrother #cybersecurity #security #bigtech
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Bill Gates is listening ... 😱☢️⚠️
Location: Matrix
And yes, #CalueRemoving C-level are for the most part a hinderance in any #PublicCorporation as they destroy R&D for "making quarterly number go up" then pocket the #bonuses and leave till the shitshow inevitably crashes...
- "#AI" aka. #BigData certainly is cheaper and more rational than those suits...
I mean, look at the shitshow #Bayer is now:
- Gutted #Research and #Development
- Worst #Acquisition in Corporate History ( #Monsanto !)
- All their products are either only riding on the decreasing momentum of #BrandRecognition whilst the overall quality doesn't improve, and in some cases even get worse. (See Anti-Tick - Collars of #BayerPetCare being developed solely for the #US market (cuz they shuttered the #EU division of the subsidiary ) thus making them completely ineffective as American and European Ticks ain't the same species!
Pamiętacie, jak wczoraj po ogłoszeniu współpracy między MON i Palantirem narzekałam, że w mediach są głównie same bezrefleksyjne laurki? No to już nie narzekam ;)
Polecam tekst Anny Wittenberg na łamach WNP
https://www.wnp.pl/bezpieczenstwo/palantir-wchodzi-do-polskiej-armii-amerykanskie-systemy-danych-maja-wspierac-decyzje-dowodcow,998241.html
For well over 30 years, I have been sounding like a broken record;
#privacy is super important, because we are only one election away from an #authoritarian regime that will use #bigdata to persecute people.
Each time normies were dismissing my point as alarmist and hysterical, and here we are;
“ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration,” Guariglia said.
Source; https://nyunews.com/culture/iequity/2025/10/17/detention-and-deportation-conference/
TikTok Won’t Say If It’s Giving ICE Your Data
TikTok has repeatedly declined to answer questions about whether it has shared or is sharing private user information with the Department of Homeland Security or Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The policy changes, combined with the company’s silence about them, leave open the possibility that it could do so if asked.
#tiktok #socialmedia #surveillance #privacy #data #bigdata #DHS #ice #technology #tech
Rather than get mired in the thought-terminating arguments around political parties or political factions, though, I think we'd do well to reflect on what sorts of other ways of thinking feed into this one: the measured life; standardized testing; the internet of things (sensors); tracking apps of various kinds; electronic health records; data science as a profession and Big Data generally; predictive modeling; generative AI and other optimization-oriented or productivity-promising technology. All of these function to render life as an object of knowledge in one way or another. All of them trace their origins through eugenics and the patterns of thought that led to it, and all of them threaten to enable and enhance further eugenic thinking. This is not to say these things are always all bad; this is meant to be a reflection on what exactly they're for.
Why read the number of steps your FitBit told you you took today, unless there were some sense in which you want your future self to be better than your present self? It's not an accident that this is called "physical fitness", "fitness" being the Darwinian concept describing which organisms should survive. Why subject children to standardized testing unless there were some belief it made them better students? To what end tends to be left out. Why adopt a technology meant to improve productivity, unless you're of the belief that improvement (optimization) were even possible?
Generally speaking, if one is able to bring oneself to believe that a human being is made better by a data-informed technical intervention, isn't one playing the same game as these anti-autism anti-vaxxers, just with different terminology? If your answer to this provocation is that your data is better than theirs or that you're more aligned with reality than they are--some variation of "the science is on our side"--you've ceded the territory: this is more of the same optimization logic that brought us to this point to begin with. I think we have no choice but to do better than this.
That's my reflection anyway.
#USPol #autism #vaccination #vaccines #antivax #eugenics #BigData #AI #PredictiveModeling #DataScience #science
Predatory Data
Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Futurehttps://bookshop.org/p/books/predatory-data-eugenics-in-big-tech-and-our-fight-for-an-independent-future-anita-say-chan/21312207
There's a nearly straight line from 20th century eugenics to 21st century big data and data science. Google, the bastion of big data, was founded by two Stanford graduate students; Stanford was founded by a eugenicist and instituted eugenics principles. Francis Galton--inventor of the regression analysis that forms the backbone of data science--was "hot or notting" London with a counter hidden in his pocket long before Harvard-age Zuckerberg recuperated the same with the favorite quantification technology of our day, computers.
"The measured life" is a eugenics concept. All these doohickeys that collect data with the promise of making your body a bit more "fit"? Eugenicist in origin. Eugenics is about "optimizing" the physical "fitness" of people. Apps that help you learn, make you more mentally "fit"? Also have origins in eugenics. Eugenics is also about "optimizing" the mental "fitness" of people. Hence the obsession with IQ.
This isn't to say you shouldn't take care of your body and mind in whichever ways you want. I do think it's important, though, to periodically reflect on, and ask yourself hard questions about, what's driving those efforts and what the goals really are. Part of understanding why eugenics thinking is resurging so hard and fast in the US is understanding its roots, where that type of thinking comes from. It's also important to reflect on where the apps and devices you use to achieve these goals come from. How many come directly or indirectly from Stanford, which was built by eugenicists to achieve eugenic goals, and its offshoots?
Trump and Musk are literally repeating themes from Francis Galton's eugenics out in the open now. They're confident they can get away with it without pushback because the ground was laid long ago. But eugenics didn't suddenly become bad again because coarse people started saying the quiet part out loud. It's always been bad thinking, bad science, and bad morality.
#DataScience #eugenics #BigData #fitness #US #IQ #Trump #Musk
I've written before on here about my favorite metaphor, eating your seed corn ( https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1705679109.757852 ), but I also think there's a decent analogy with peak oil as well. Microsoft Recall is the tar sands and oil shale of the "data is the new oil" era. The internet had the easy fields; now we're moving on to the dirty, dangerous, environment-destroying ones. If the pattern follows that of oil, wells will be drilled closer and closer together over time to slurp out value as rapidly as possible at the expense of long-term field health.
#Microsoft #Recall #AI #data #BigData #LLM #GenerativeAI #GenAI