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I lament Nova's demise, too..

I think the reason that the tech companies won't allow us to have our devices our own way ( Microsoft was doing this decades ago ), is "religious"/ideological, not practical:

I think they "need" to keep everybody permanently in a headlock, with our heads all twisted, because only if we are all in permanent learned-helplessness, only then can they automatically get away with everything they intend to be getting away with, in our world.

IOW, our autonomy violates their totalitarian religion, see?

It's the same as how ANY spirituality grates on Dawkins' blood: he wants it all gutted/butchered/destroyed, & suicides of ones he destroyed are no problem for him, & no alternative ever can have any validity to him.

Totalitarianism, whether traditionally "religious", or in any other ideology/prejudice/religion, is the same: it HATES violation of its homogenous dominion.

( comically: homophobic-religions want a homogenous het humankind, with no violation of that homogeneity. The existence of homosexuals is too heterogenous for them )

Autonomy is something that totalitarian supremacism ideology "needs" to obliterate from the whole world.

Consistently.

It seems to be a damn-good diagnostic for it, even!

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( Horseshack voice: )

Oh! Oh! Oh! Mr Kotter!

YOU MEAN FILTER-BUBBLES DO THE SAME THING TO BOTH HUMANS AND AIs??

How Very Incredibly Surprising(tm), Oh, My!

/s

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DEET is the only chemical that I know-of which they HATE.

I use mosquito-netting to keep them away from me.

I don't want DEET touching me, at all, ever again.

No, I'm not a mosquito.

: p

That means that neural-net/deep-learning therapist if done properly is a real potential.

And that means that we may finally hae a psychological equivalent to a "cane" or "wheelchair", soon, to help us when we're too exhausted to help ourselves, or when we need another's help, & there is no other, except for money which we don't have..

( no, I'm not saying that any for-profit business would do it properly.

I AM saying it's now possible. : )

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Isn't that interesting..

The anbility to prevent the getting-out of evidence of what the authorities do to the locals..

Just like the unconstitutional state-laws which criminalize capturing-of-video-evidene of police executing people..

"I wonder" if this would ever be abused by anti-accountability authorities..

( remember that the whole Christian religion is founded on a guy who was a kind of whistleblower, & had spikes hammered through his wrists, in his crucifixion, for his calling the legalists "hypocrites"..

I wonder how "Christian" he'd find them to be, if he returned, & saw what they're doing? )

Human nature & demon nature seem .. related?

or is that too harsh?

.. perhaps .. but wasn't the Inquisition demon-law in the name of benJoseph?

hmm...

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IF you are in accounting, especially if you are in regulatory compliance accounting, or going into it, you NEED to know about a book named "Financial Shenanigans".

I'm not intellectually-equal to it ( or to accounting, for that matter: psychology's much easier to crack, for me ), but it is THE most important book for forensic-accountants to know.

The bullshit that they've been pulling, where "Between 2017 and 2021, Amazon had more than $25 billion in losses from its devices business, according to the documents. The losses for the years before and after that period couldn’t be determined." didn't produce criminal consequences..

You've got to be kidding, right?

Individual human goes to jail or prison for $2k tax fraud, but .. big tech gets a free pass on that kind of "accounting"??

couldn't be determined??

Either run a tight-ship or don't be surprised when it sinks.

Economies are the "ships" that carry our countries, & have to be properly regulated, exactly as a tightly-regulated ship has to be, to keep it afloat longer.

It isn't the sloppy mechanic-racers who win NASCAR, it is the ones who control everything correctly, with total right-regulation.

I remember when I'd read that Cisco switched to closing their books out daily, so as to always know the exact position of the company..

what an incredible degree of financial-operations integrity that was..

Anyways, "Financial Shenanigans" is THE book to dig into, if you want to know if the business you're considering investing in is cooking the books.. and you're capable of understanding that stuff at the level it's speaking..

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This may well work for the repubs, though.

They want dictatorship, not representative-republic ( falsely-called "democracy" by us foolish peons ).

Legalism, which the christ they pretend to be aligned-with, repeatedly railed against, calling its devotees "Hypocrites!"..

https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=hypocrite&version=AMP

I believe that in the gaslighting-about-being-aligned-with-christ republican territories .. they're going to get that result to happen..

Which only could have been prevented had the dems put Harris in the race months ago..

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Conflict-of-interest is the root of all corruption.

"Pro-Life" but they will execute oceans of lives, in their regime.

I expect full-on human-sacrifice worship of Trump within 4y of his gaining dictatorship.

( there's been continuous human-sacrifice-cult activity in the Americas, Central & northward, for about 11.7 millenia, ttbomk.

This won't be anything new: it'll just be the same-old same-old getting blatent about it.

I bet every one of you an imaginary-dime, right now, that the "uncanny valley" is going to be stark on Trump's face, within 4y, to those who aren't his worshippers.

I don't know if there's a remind-me-bot thingy for lemmy, but if there is, & anybody wants to set a reminder, so you can prove me wrong, go for it.

I think this bet of mine is certain.

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This escalation will continue,

until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:

They will simply say something like:

"Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,

XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule."

I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.

Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??

They've already done so, in some places..

( Facebook & .. was it Myanmar? as 1 example )

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This is inevitable:

Once the people in China can only see the CCP's version of everything,

& ALL stuff has been adulterated, either by AI or by some agency-or-other,

THEN dissent should die-down in the Chinese population:

Read Lanier's "Foreign to Familiar" to understand how Tropical-Culture vs Nordic-Culture shapes people, & how old-cultures vs new-cultures shape people,

then read Hofstede's "Exploring Culture" to understand the dimensions of culture that his Cultural Dimensions Theory digs into ( power-distance, uncertainty-avoidance, "success"-orientation, & other dimensions )..

& when you understand how we're kind of "template" people, before being born into culture,

but once born into it, our entire meaning gets framed within whatever culture we were born into..

therefore, the CCP can simply remove most diversity-of-meaning from their completely-possessed-population, through a generation or 2 of that.

Tibetan, Uyghur, Hongkonger, Taiwanese, Indian, South-Korean, Japanese, the intent is consistent: "the destruction of " .. others .. "is the midwife of Chinese supremacy".

I expect a similar kind of program to exist in all right-possessed countries, as the right is doing in the US, right now, with burning or banning books, eradicating proper education, suppressing libraries, etc, they're just doing the same thing as what the CCP's doing, only less-skillfully, is all.

No real difference in their deeper heart/motivation/intent, though: supremacism, crushing/destroying all "other" kinds.

Russia's big on it, too, isn't it?

Islamism..

The "Crusades" were good examples of this kind of idiocy?

The "Inquisition"?

The "Buddhist" genociding of Tamils?

So long as the "home" story is .. "coherent", & "justifies" all, then .. kids grow up .. believing, right?

There's a book, & a Big Think yt video, on "Collective Illusions", which is important!

Please invest in seeing that video, & see how it's actually a delusion-mechanism in our minds..

..used by political-forces, yes, but they couldn't use it if it didn't exist, could they?

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1 is narcissism/cult-of-personality,

the other is cult-of-institution/inertia.

They are not identical, and not even functionally-equivalent.

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