When I was a kid I never dreamed I would grow up to live in a cybernetic totalitarian dystopia. Yet here we are!
Ubiquitous panoptic surveillance, for-profit global censorship, rabid financialization, actual flying robots, actual killer robots (many of which fly), algorithms and "AI" constantly evaluating every aspect of our lives... The list goes on and on.
Sure sure, it's a boot stamping on a human face - forever But I guess maybe you could say the tech is cool.
"VCs will refuse to do business with you unless you can provide them with unstoppable analytics"
Collusive domination of the software industry by the cabal of venture capitalists is why modern software is simultaneously shitty and evil. Not just shitty. Not just evil. Shitty and evil.
Welcome to Surveillance Valley, where our motto is "fuck you, proles, that's why".
It's not capitalism anymore. At you say, capitalists care about building up capital. Yet for decades our levels of productive capital have been in sharp decline.
Now it's financialism. Financialists care about finance - about building up debt. And boy oh boy have they succeeded at making the whole of the People in debt to a handful of smug usurers.
If our kangaroo courts gave a damn about the Constitution we would still have the right to trial by jury, and consequently we would not have the world's largest gulag.
Libertarians believe, first and foremost, in kicking the poor.
President Trump is a populist. He's not playing along with the idiotic, stultifying left/right game. Rather he's doing what he thinks will be best for America.
ALL of America. Including the deplorable rednecks in the flyover. Not just the well-connected uptight latte-sipping queer snobs in the financial centers who are the sole beneficiaries of the bipartisan Establishment's disastrously failed economic policies.
The poor are cursed to be forever in debt to the rich. Each month big computers decide how much to rob each worker, and he must pay up - forget the legal fairy tales, in reality workers have no rights and must pay whatever is demanded. No matter how much they work or pay they will never be anything other than poor. That's how Financialism works.
Now the dwindling "middle class" at least in theory has a chance of getting out of debt. So for them, payment records might have actual value. (Never mind that "middle class" status is for most people merely an illusion. It's an illusion that people really _want to_ believe.)
"The court decision was absolutely correct even if the behavior it protects is undesirable to a great many people."
Citizens United, a decision that will live in infamy, is the Dred Scott of our day. Regardless of its legalistic "merits" it was a profoundly immoral ruling.
"if that's a problem for open source developers then don't do open source."
That's what's happening already. Thanks to several plagues afflicting our community - leeches like this shill's boss Bezos, complete industry domination by the Sandhill Road VC cabal, corporate imposition of progressive nazi CoCs, and race to the bottom 3rd world outsourcing - more and more talented people are abandoning open source development. No one likes working for free while their enemies enjoy the fruits of their labor.
There are a little over 1000 open source packages in the dependency tree of my company's main application. I estimate that fully 50% of those packages are effectively abandoned. This is a young codebase and bit rot has already set in!
In the future I predict this trend will accelerate. Fewer new open source packages will be released, and even fewer will have long term active development. Even actively used packages may be unmaintained, since Agile(tm) companies won't spend the resources to actually contribute anything.
As more and more open source projects are abandoned, maintaining applications built atop them will become steadily more burdensome, expensive, and potentially disruptive. Running faster to stay in the same place. And the pace of new development will slow markedly as the commons dwindles. Working harder for less return.
Good job, capitalist dogs! You're killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
A long time ago I worked as a security sysadmin for a well known Wall Street company. As part of my work I was given access to the master passwords for ALL the financial systems.
At the same time, they paid me so little (by Manhattan standards) that I had to live with two roommates. So obviously I was living far below a comfortable middle class lifestyle. While holding the master keys to a system that processed billions of dollars a day...
As it happens, I was young, and I'm an honest man from a good family. So I did nothing dishonorable. But WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING?
Just goes to show that most rich folks are inbred half-wits who would be flipping burgers at McDonald's if they'd been born commoners like the rest of us.
It's time for President Trump to get out his trust-busting stick. Break up Alphabet!
Android - separate company Chrome - separate company YouTube - separate company Gmail - separate company Search - separate company Advertising - separate company Maps - separate company
Shut down the dangerous mad science projects. Shut down the wannabe-Skynet AI. Arrest the mad scientists and the executives that backed them.
Break up Alphabet now! Stop Google before it's too late!
_Excuse_ his behavior? Brother you are living in another world. This professor needs no excuse. His behavior was _righteous_.
You can tell he did good work for mankind by the howls and stuttering protestations of academic authoritarians. All the "but muh SCIENCE(tm)!!!!1!!" bros really resent what this professor has brought into the spotlight: that the appeal to academic authority is in fact an appeal to pure _authority_, to empty credentialism.
Listen to the screams that he violated regulations. Should have told the IRB, so they could put a stop to it! Should have told the intellectually bankrupt journals they were being punked, so they could avoid losing face! Obey, obey you peon, obey your betters!
Problem: outside a handful of richie-rich bubble cities, the US has _already_ been run into the ground. Declining lifespans, poverty, misery, broken families, systemic unemployment, crime, fascist policing, infrastructure collapse. 40 years of economic depression isn't pretty.
The political Establishment's unwillingness even to acknowledge that there are big problems reminds me of a story I once heard about the old Soviet Union: During the widespread famines under Stalin, the Soviet statistical agency reported record harvests. Everyone slapped each other on the back with self-congratulations, while millions starved.
Who is "we", and how do you plan to "replace" your working class countrymen?
Are you another wannabe genocidaire? When I call you smug assholes "Corporate Progressive nazis" it's just an insult. But it sounds like you're actually lusting for gas chambers and ovens?
Or maybe you mean you will "replace" your working class countrymen by dispossessing them of their land with financial scams, and importing a barbarian horde to terrorize their devastated communities? Well that's not very neighborly of you... But it is _exactly_ what those "rednecks" are protesting, so I guess they're not as stupid as you claim.
You think folks with whom you "replace" the American working class are going to fight your wars? Everyone knows Corporate Progressive nazis are BIGLY in favor of MOAR WAR. 'Cuz it makes the rich richer, and somehow you fancy yourself one of the elite. What fun it will be when you order your horde of "replacements" to invade South Buttfuckistan and steal their oil - and instead they burn down your gated community and help themselves to the lucre you scammed out of the deplorables!
In summary: you are a nazi asshole scumbag, and a suburban yokel as well. Go play in traffic.
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When I was a kid I never dreamed I would grow up to live in a cybernetic totalitarian dystopia. Yet here we are!
Ubiquitous panoptic surveillance, for-profit global censorship, rabid financialization, actual flying robots, actual killer robots (many of which fly), algorithms and "AI" constantly evaluating every aspect of our lives... The list goes on and on.
Sure sure, it's a boot stamping on a human face - forever But I guess maybe you could say the tech is cool.
That's not the future. That's the present.
We have become Stalin's Soviet Union. Except without any of the good points.
"VCs will refuse to do business with you unless you can provide them with unstoppable analytics"
Collusive domination of the software industry by the cabal of venture capitalists is why modern software is simultaneously shitty and evil. Not just shitty. Not just evil. Shitty and evil.
Welcome to Surveillance Valley, where our motto is "fuck you, proles, that's why".
It's not capitalism anymore. At you say, capitalists care about building up capital. Yet for decades our levels of productive capital have been in sharp decline.
Now it's financialism. Financialists care about finance - about building up debt. And boy oh boy have they succeeded at making the whole of the People in debt to a handful of smug usurers.
They have "agreed" to be snooped, for certain values of "agree" that include "vehement disagreement".
If our kangaroo courts gave a damn about the Constitution we would still have the right to trial by jury, and consequently we would not have the world's largest gulag.
"the only folks younger than 70 in the Democratic party are more or less full-tilt Socialists."
Only a very very stupid socialist would join the Democrats, given their leadership's open contempt for working people.
Libertarians believe, first and foremost, in kicking the poor.
President Trump is a populist. He's not playing along with the idiotic, stultifying left/right game. Rather he's doing what he thinks will be best for America.
ALL of America. Including the deplorable rednecks in the flyover. Not just the well-connected uptight latte-sipping queer snobs in the financial centers who are the sole beneficiaries of the bipartisan Establishment's disastrously failed economic policies.
"That hurts the poor more than me"
Most unlikely.
The poor are cursed to be forever in debt to the rich. Each month big computers decide how much to rob each worker, and he must pay up - forget the legal fairy tales, in reality workers have no rights and must pay whatever is demanded. No matter how much they work or pay they will never be anything other than poor. That's how Financialism works.
Now the dwindling "middle class" at least in theory has a chance of getting out of debt. So for them, payment records might have actual value. (Never mind that "middle class" status is for most people merely an illusion. It's an illusion that people really _want to_ believe.)
"The court decision was absolutely correct even if the behavior it protects is undesirable to a great many people."
Citizens United, a decision that will live in infamy, is the Dred Scott of our day. Regardless of its legalistic "merits" it was a profoundly immoral ruling.
That's why the semi-official media keeps bleating on about the obsolete, incoherent "left vs right" false dichotomy.
The yellow vests are a _populist_ movement. A workers' movement. Not "leftist", not "rightist". That's why it worries the financialist Establishment.
"if that's a problem for open source developers then don't do open source."
That's what's happening already. Thanks to several plagues afflicting our community - leeches like this shill's boss Bezos, complete industry domination by the Sandhill Road VC cabal, corporate imposition of progressive nazi CoCs, and race to the bottom 3rd world outsourcing - more and more talented people are abandoning open source development. No one likes working for free while their enemies enjoy the fruits of their labor.
There are a little over 1000 open source packages in the dependency tree of my company's main application. I estimate that fully 50% of those packages are effectively abandoned. This is a young codebase and bit rot has already set in!
In the future I predict this trend will accelerate. Fewer new open source packages will be released, and even fewer will have long term active development. Even actively used packages may be unmaintained, since Agile(tm) companies won't spend the resources to actually contribute anything.
As more and more open source projects are abandoned, maintaining applications built atop them will become steadily more burdensome, expensive, and potentially disruptive. Running faster to stay in the same place. And the pace of new development will slow markedly as the commons dwindles. Working harder for less return.
Good job, capitalist dogs! You're killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
A long time ago I worked as a security sysadmin for a well known Wall Street company. As part of my work I was given access to the master passwords for ALL the financial systems.
At the same time, they paid me so little (by Manhattan standards) that I had to live with two roommates. So obviously I was living far below a comfortable middle class lifestyle. While holding the master keys to a system that processed billions of dollars a day...
As it happens, I was young, and I'm an honest man from a good family. So I did nothing dishonorable. But WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING?
Just goes to show that most rich folks are inbred half-wits who would be flipping burgers at McDonald's if they'd been born commoners like the rest of us.
Drug lords are rich. The rich have civil rights.
It's time for President Trump to get out his trust-busting stick. Break up Alphabet!
Android - separate company
Chrome - separate company
YouTube - separate company
Gmail - separate company
Search - separate company
Advertising - separate company
Maps - separate company
Shut down the dangerous mad science projects. Shut down the wannabe-Skynet AI. Arrest the mad scientists and the executives that backed them.
Break up Alphabet now! Stop Google before it's too late!
"there'll come a time when I can't tell a crook from an honest man because my critical thinking facilities are toast."
You voted for Clinton, didn't you? My brother I have some bad news for you...
Perhaps "fake news" is any news article that's likely to displease inbred twits from the boss class?
Any news article that decries "fake news" is itself fake news.
Article summarized:
Faceboot sez, "fuck all you all, you lose, you have no rights, all your bases are belong to us, hahahahahahaha! Fuck you, proles, that's why!"
Samsung heartily concurs.
_Excuse_ his behavior? Brother you are living in another world. This professor needs no excuse. His behavior was _righteous_.
You can tell he did good work for mankind by the howls and stuttering protestations of academic authoritarians. All the "but muh SCIENCE(tm)!!!!1!!" bros really resent what this professor has brought into the spotlight: that the appeal to academic authority is in fact an appeal to pure _authority_, to empty credentialism.
Listen to the screams that he violated regulations. Should have told the IRB, so they could put a stop to it! Should have told the intellectually bankrupt journals they were being punked, so they could avoid losing face! Obey, obey you peon, obey your betters!
In Soviet America law breaks you!
Next time please disable iTard quotes when posting a wallotext.
"after his policies run the US into the ground."
Problem: outside a handful of richie-rich bubble cities, the US has _already_ been run into the ground. Declining lifespans, poverty, misery, broken families, systemic unemployment, crime, fascist policing, infrastructure collapse. 40 years of economic depression isn't pretty.
The political Establishment's unwillingness even to acknowledge that there are big problems reminds me of a story I once heard about the old Soviet Union: During the widespread famines under Stalin, the Soviet statistical agency reported record harvests. Everyone slapped each other on the back with self-congratulations, while millions starved.
Who is "we", and how do you plan to "replace" your working class countrymen?
Are you another wannabe genocidaire? When I call you smug assholes "Corporate Progressive nazis" it's just an insult. But it sounds like you're actually lusting for gas chambers and ovens?
Or maybe you mean you will "replace" your working class countrymen by dispossessing them of their land with financial scams, and importing a barbarian horde to terrorize their devastated communities? Well that's not very neighborly of you... But it is _exactly_ what those "rednecks" are protesting, so I guess they're not as stupid as you claim.
You think folks with whom you "replace" the American working class are going to fight your wars? Everyone knows Corporate Progressive nazis are BIGLY in favor of MOAR WAR. 'Cuz it makes the rich richer, and somehow you fancy yourself one of the elite. What fun it will be when you order your horde of "replacements" to invade South Buttfuckistan and steal their oil - and instead they burn down your gated community and help themselves to the lucre you scammed out of the deplorables!
In summary: you are a nazi asshole scumbag, and a suburban yokel as well. Go play in traffic.