AcidiclyBasicGlitch
@AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works
Researcher in the U.S. trying to stay informed and help others stay informed. I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: pimento-mori.ghost.io
I only recently began using ghost, and am slowly figuring things out. Apologies for any formatting issues.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 days ago:
“I can’t figure out what this button does, so I refuse to use it >:(”
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 days ago:
Exactly! Ugh, if these miserable, global extremists, sacks of dog shit hate freedom so much, why won’t they all just go build a man made floating island somewhere in the middle of the ocean and leave the rest of the world alone, instead of dragging us all into fucking holy war just to force us to be miserable too?
Answer: A. They aren’t actually capable of creating/building anything on their own, and are completely reliant on exploiting others because they’re a bunch of talentless cocksuckers. B. They thrive on the attention/theatrics of it all and need a captive audience. C. Even if they suddenly woke up to a world where every need was met and everyone was exactly like them, they would be even more miserable nobody was paying attention to them, and still find excuses to go to war with each other. D. All of the above is
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 1 week ago:
Haven’t you heard? Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race.
Trump’s current Science Advisor gave an interview back in ~2019 where he kept insisting the U.S. was at a disadvantage to China bc we didn’t have access to the level of surveillance data China had (which it turns out we fucking created and sold to them). He also used this point to argue against any regulations for facial recognition tech because again, it would put us at a disadvantage.
But don’t worry, because the goal is to have an authoritarian surveillance state with “baked in American values,” so we won’t have to worry about ending up like China did with the surveillance tools we fucking sold them.
I’m not sure what values he’s claiming will be somehow baked into it (because again, we created it and sold it to China). My mind conjures up scenario of automatic weapons and a speaker playing a screeching bald eagle, but maybe we’ll get some star spangled banner thrown in there too.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 1 week ago:
Spoken like somebody with the sloping brow of a common criminal.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 1 week ago:
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 week ago:
Land owning isn’t meant to be for serfs lol.
I had a friend from Germany who mentioned once that owning property there is very rare for most people unless they’re from very old conservative generational wealth. He said that houses and property often end up passed down in the same families over and over. He was well educated and happy with his career, but he never had any kind of expectation he would get to own property at some point in his life.
Not sure where you’re from, but it kind of feels like the U.S. is becoming more and more like that. Except, we also don’t get healthcare, and to even get the privilege of an education people are increasingly having to take on a level of debt that one would expect to take on as an investment in property even though there is no guarantee your investment will pay off. It’s concerning though, that when this is pointed out to people, it’s often cited as a reason you just shouldn’t bother with college.
Owning private property is becoming more and more a privilege reserved for only the elite, not an expectation or “entitlement.” Ok, well that kind of sucks, but I guess you don’t have to own property to have a decent life.
But, then it’s clear we’re supposed to accept that healthcare is somehow also becoming a privilege reserved for the elite and not an expectation or “entitlement?”
And, we’re hearing conservatives, often from backgrounds of generational wealth, talk more and more about abolishing the department of education. So, that means that soon we could be expected to view education of any kind (not just college) as something we’re not “entitled” to.
It’s also clear that many of the people creating these policies, and encouraging other people not to waste their time on worthless college degrees, were born into lives where our “entitlements” are simply their default expectations.
However, when they address their voters, it’s always the “entitled” and the “educated elites,” who are somehow responsible for their hardships, the overall decline in their quality of life, and the lack of opportunities and resources that have gradually become the default expectation for most Americans.
The “entitled” takers who want to be handed what can only be obtained through hard work and sacrifice that will pay off as long as you really try. And if it doesn’t, you shouldn’t start asking questions of “why,” like those educated elites, you should just accept that you must have done something, that they would have done differently, in order to rise to the top.
I’m smart enough to know that the reason I don’t own property and probably never will, isn’t because I haven’t tightened my belt enough or pulled myself up by my bootstraps, or thanks to my worthless college degree that has brainwashed me into believing I’m entitled to something I’m not.
Neither of my parents went to college, yet they were always told the same bullshit when they asked too many questions about why the game always felt rigged no matter how hard you tried.
- Comment on Alex Karp Goes to War 1 week ago:
Beneath his fiery defense of Palantir, I sense that Karp yearns to be understood. He noted that all anyone wants to talk to him about is ICE, Israel, and Ukraine.
Please understand I’m so much more than the genocides and oppression I enable and profit from 😢
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- Comment on The Tech Company Bringing Surveillance Dystopia to Your Town 1 week ago:
Beyond controversy around the Texas self-managed abortion case, Flock has had to respond to evidence that local law enforcement agencies have used their data to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It now has offered assurances that jurisdictions proactively banning data sharing related to immigration status or abortion seeking will be excluded from national searches, as long as the local yahoo with tactical undershorts is dumb enough to put “ICE” or “abortion” in the required reason field.
But it turns out that once you’ve built a massive distributed surveillance network, it’s hard to rein in its use. The state of Washington explicitly bans sharing data or equipment with federal officers for the purpose of immigration enforcement, yet the University of Washington found dozens of examples of exactly that. Some local departments explicitly opened up their Flock data to the feds despite the state law; others had their information siphoned off without their knowledge via an unspecified technological error.
The university study and an investigation by 404 Media found another category of information sharing that also subverted state attempts to fend off immigration overreach: federal officers just asking really nice if the local guy could run a search on their behalf and the local guy happened to use “ICE” or “ICE warrant” or “illegal immigration” in the local search (tactical undies recognizes tactical undies, you know?). Worth noting: A local officer well informed about jurisdictional data-sharing limitations would just not enter “ICE” as the reason for the search, and we have no idea how many of those cannier cops there are.
We have this built in safety net that makes every user list the reason they used the database.
Reason for search: Not ICE
Checks out.
Already terrified? It gets worse: Flock is turning over more and more of its monitoring to AI, a feature that Flock (and the entire technology-media industrial complex) sells as a neutral efficiency. But the problem with AI is how deeply human it really is—trained on biased data, it can only replicate and amplify what it already knows. Misogyny and white supremacy are built into surveillance DNA, and using it to search for women seeking abortions or any other suspected “criminal” can only make the echo chamber more intense.
This month, an AI-powered security system (not Flock, surprisingly) tossed out an alarm to a school resource officer, and he called the police to the scene of a Black teenager eating chips. The teen described “eight cop cars that came pulling up to us [and] they started walking toward me with guns.” You can fault the resource officer for not clocking the chip bag; at least we know the point of failure.
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- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
I agree, the potential for what AI could be is extraordinary.
The mess that the broligarchs/“technocratic elite” have created in the U.S. by insisting they be handed full control and be allowed to treat the entire country like their personal playground, has only proven exactly why oversight and regulations should exist and why monopolies shouldn’t.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
It was so over hyped from the beginning though. The broligarchs insisted as long as we fed it all of our data, and threw unlimited money at it, there was no way it wouldn’t be a success. That’s literally all America has been doing for nearly a year. They’ve forced it into every government department possible, even places where it clearly didn’t belong. They’ve thrown billions at it, they allowed fucking 19 year old DOGE fuckwads to access hoards of sensitive data on every U.S. citizen, and watched as they stole every cent they could get their hands on. After all of that, how much has AI in the U.S. actually improved since January 19th, 2025?
- Comment on ‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon 2 weeks ago:
And giving them a heads up when access to their data is requested for
war crimeslegal reasons… - Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
I have a problem with these people exploiting and weaponizing my religion for their own profit. Not that they’re the first to do it, but it’s even more ridiculous to grow up and see the hypocritical “traditionalists” joining forces with hypocritical technocrats.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
These are definitely the people who end up killing us all.
Why would Christ want you literally playing God and fucking with his timeline?
- Comment on Poland Signs Palantir, Anduril Deals Amid Record Army Spending 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure, but that’s a good question.
I believe Ukraine used Palantir against Russia, but when the U.S. becomes involved in a proxy war (even if it’s to defend a nation that was clearly invaded by a leader who posed a global threat) it’s hard to know what is actually chosen by the country vs provided as is.
- Comment on Poland Signs Palantir, Anduril Deals Amid Record Army Spending 3 weeks ago:
What could possibly go wrong?
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- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 3 weeks ago:
Worst case, it’s sold to ICE or some other fascist regime.
Every single government that has a contract with Palantir for Gotham or even the UK NHS data is reason enough to know this kind of shit is a bad idea. The entire existence of Palantir makes this kind of shit a bad idea by default.
Even if they’re not using lavender or where’s daddy (yet), I do not want them to have a detailed layout of my home, in addition to all the other information already being collected.
If the day comes when any government needs to crush civil unrest, Palantir gives them an easy button to weaponize your data against you.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 3 weeks ago:
“Someone — or something — had remotely issued a kill command,” he wrote.
“I reversed the script change and rebooted the device,” he wrote. “It came back to life instantly. They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”
In short, he said, the company that made the device had “the power to remotely disable devices, and used it against me for blocking their data collection… Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on A roundabout 5 weeks ago:
It’s like he knew he was supposed to be setting an example but buckled under pressure.
- Comment on It's true... 5 weeks ago:
“You’re fucking up the curve!”
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 5 weeks ago:
Lmao my thoughts exactly. Not just the general public, if enough Republicans get nervous and finally vote to subpoena those files, they might have to be legally taken by force.
Who had “If House Republicans would just fucking vote for accountability, the villain officially breaking the law would be the CEO of a big bank?” on their bingo card. 🙋♀️
“Survival of the fittest! It’s the natural order of things. Let nature take it’s cour… Hey, excuse me! You’re not supposed to be here without a biometric scan!”
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- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 month ago:
Fuuuuck, gaslighting the gaslighter in chief. The end of humanity bc reality has become trapped within an endless circle of gaslighting and fuckery.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 month ago:
Yet another reason they probably want to stir up violence. Not only does it tip us closer towards civil war, capturing public violence means more data to feed into AI and generate violent videos.
