RRB @rrb@qoto.org

Yet another #BlackMirror episode on the horizon:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/business/dealbook/sec-gensler-ai.html

To avoid being arrested in Detroit in the future, all black women should be advised to remain pregnant:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/07/michigan-porcha-woodruff-arrest-facial-recognition/

This upcoming #BlackMirror episode writes itself:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/technology/worldcoin-iris-scans.html

What could possibly go wrong?

@Geri which begs the question: why the hell would they leave France for UK anyway?

@mez @StillIRise1963

My experience in life has been that anyone who thinks "the rules don't apply to me because I am better than everyone else" is an asshole. Plain and simple.

That is what American exceptionalism is.

If your sense of worth is based on where you are born, you are really pitiful.

@lauren
Can we finally just admit that the primary use-case for AI is automatically enforcing racism.

@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Any chance that we could start a Hunger Games for billionaires? I think it would be good for society if they all killed each other. It seems that they would enjoy it, too. Win, win if there ever was such a thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-cage-match.html

Washington Post Opinion writer slurs Africa:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/04/fitch-us-credit-rating-downgrade-africa-satire/

@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social
Do you mean phones that spy on their owners continuously, sell privacy to the highest bidder, are used by authoritarian governments to quash dissent and free thought?

Those were definitely created by capitalism.

@rythnyx Racism will also be a feature not a bug.

Either that, or people named Jared that play lacrosse are just better at doing all jobs than anyone else.

@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Read Erewhon

@scalzi

And that the second amendment is to protect periodic bouts of violence by groups of homicidal yahoos to replace representative governments.

@filby @StrangeNoises @heatherrosejones @cstross

Have you given any thought to the similarity between fentanyl trafficking from China causing social problems in the West and the opium wars?

I wonder if any Chinese have seen this as "turnabout is fair play" ("what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander")?

@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Bakunin memes please

@georgetakei Ronald Reagan must be so proud.

@StrangeNoises @heatherrosejones @cstross

I actually think that meme comes from replacing aliens with white people. That is how Europeans envisaged colonialism.