In which I go full foil hat...or do I?
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In which I go full foil hat...or do I?
The plan sounds crazy until you realize how crazy the plan has already been.
Control
Ultimately, the cloud and AI industries are about robbing you of computing power and selling it back at exorbitant rents.
(taggart-tech.com)
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In which I go full foil hat...or do I?
The plan sounds crazy until you realize how crazy the plan has already been.
Control
Ultimately, the cloud and AI industries are about robbing you of computing power and selling it back at exorbitant rents.
(taggart-tech.com)
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In which I go full foil hat...or do I?
The plan sounds crazy until you realize how crazy the plan has already been.
Control
Ultimately, the cloud and AI industries are about robbing you of computing power and selling it back at exorbitant rents.
(taggart-tech.com)
@mttaggart another banger. No full foil hat, but one of the best explanations on how we got here and how we might get out of this spiral. "It's the economy, stupid!" but with C-suites mandates tanking everything to justify their spending of company money (I wouldn't call "AI" an investment).
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R relay@relay.an.exchange shared this topic
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In which I go full foil hat...or do I?
The plan sounds crazy until you realize how crazy the plan has already been.
Control
Ultimately, the cloud and AI industries are about robbing you of computing power and selling it back at exorbitant rents.
(taggart-tech.com)
@mttaggart It's a golden opportunity for them to win the war on general purpose computing. On a positive note, the whole notion feels very radicalizing, so we might see a lot of computer nerds rebel. "I'll give you my Linux laptop/Gaming PC when you pry it from my cold, dead hands".
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In which I go full foil hat...or do I?
The plan sounds crazy until you realize how crazy the plan has already been.
Control
Ultimately, the cloud and AI industries are about robbing you of computing power and selling it back at exorbitant rents.
(taggart-tech.com)
@mttaggart @catsalad I think you are absolutely right. And the tech industry has been trying to do this for a *while* — I remember Sun’s slogan “the network is the computer” back when they were trying to make thin-clients the norm for the average person, accessing Java applications hosted on the web. The tech wasn’t there at the time to make it feasible… but it is now.
And it isn’t just the rent-seeking they’re after. The constant surveillance, censorship, and data collection is an authoritarian wet dream. Look for a lot of “we can’t have the general public have computers, because then they can use unsanctioned LLMs to do bad things with them” arguments in the near future, especially couched in “won’t someone think of the children” language.
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In which I go full foil hat...or do I?
The plan sounds crazy until you realize how crazy the plan has already been.
Control
Ultimately, the cloud and AI industries are about robbing you of computing power and selling it back at exorbitant rents.
(taggart-tech.com)
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R relay@relay.infosec.exchange shared this topic
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@mttaggart It's a golden opportunity for them to win the war on general purpose computing. On a positive note, the whole notion feels very radicalizing, so we might see a lot of computer nerds rebel. "I'll give you my Linux laptop/Gaming PC when you pry it from my cold, dead hands".
I did not seen anyone die on any hill when Apple and Windows pried the computer from their hands, giving us on-stop-shop dumb clickety stuff in return.
And then I heard not a peep when they then took our computers away and gave us 24/7 tracking addiction devices and some advertisement platforms disguised as websites in return.
The people who think and decide for themselves are few and far between. And usually marginalised because they have annoying hangups about things like techbros, technocracies and panopticons.
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In which I go full foil hat...or do I?
The plan sounds crazy until you realize how crazy the plan has already been.
Control
Ultimately, the cloud and AI industries are about robbing you of computing power and selling it back at exorbitant rents.
(taggart-tech.com)
@mttaggart That's enchanting, but I don't think it's been all planned. The large investments on data centers in themselves, would already be something that you can't replicate locally, not just in computing power, but also in data collection capabilities.
From there on it's just the old advertisement/manipulation scheme, updated with new tools and new invasive methods.
The "new" part is just around fooling users into another addictive and compulsory behavior, to feed the same old billionaries.
