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Carmakazi
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- on ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data | Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as f… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
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on ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data | Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as f… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
The problem comes when they have enough power to send a couple polite enough officers who will insist you come in to clear up some confusion by answering a few questions on the record, you are forced one way or another into their vehicle, and you’re just never seen again hide or hair.
In one permutation or another that’s how it happens, and you’d be surprised how quickly it can happen here now that an unaccountable network of secret police and gulags has been constructed and normalized in American society.
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on New car suggestions in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 21 Aug 2026
Essentially none, they are all significantly to severely terrible on privacy.
The Slate truck looks promising due to not having a head unit from the factory but it’s anyone’s guess if and when that project comes to fruition and in what state.
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on Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 20 Aug 2026
If there is no explanation one must assume the worst interpretation.
Wealthy connected people. The police who ultimately manage the local contracts with Flock. Federal agents and their ancillaries.
Why? “Because fuck you, we’re your betters. Keep your nose down, citizen.”
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on East Tennessee commissioner says Flock CEO should be hanged in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 18 Aug 2026
There’s actually a lot of political solidarity about mass surveillance. Go to the grimiest YouTube comment section and you’ll see the same kind of vitriol against Palantir et al that you would here.
They just think it serves the globalhomo socialist cabal trying to take over the US and not the fascist coup that already has taken over the US.
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on Kansas Schools Now Collect Phones at the Door – Spends $180K On Smartphone Lockers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
The 180k price tag seems to be for the outfitting of the school district and not just one school.
They say that Kansas City spent 150k and that’s presumably one of the largest in the state.
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on Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
A key thing there is that the bunker dwellers were at least eugenicists if not outright Nazi analogues and they were deliberately killing everyone outside as untermensch, it wasn’t just a callous side effect of their facility.
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on Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
It’s not about “attitude” it’s about thinking it through and finding a method of attack that would actually do damage that can’t be repaired in under a week if not ignored completely.
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on Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Concrete, steel girders, and server frames don’t combust easy, unfortunately.
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on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
“I don’t know who you are” is a common insult from pathological narcissists, which I guess is what he was trying to convey.
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on Is this the death of FreeTube? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Aug 2026
This is hardly the first time Freetube has broken at a core level. They (and their upstream dependencies) have to keep up with YouTube’s constant technical changes, some of which are deliberately hostile to people circumnavigating their panopticon.
It may take weeks or even months but they’ve fixed it up until now.
It’s easy to say from a state of calm that you’d theoretically “not comply”, whether that means you would physically struggle with them or run away or retrieve a weapon from your home or whatever. It’s another thing entirely to be actually confronted with this scenario and to make that dire decision with very short notice. You may only have seconds to both change mindsets to fight or flight and come up with a plan of action. Frankly, many people are not capable of this, and many more can’t come up with actions that would get them far.
The other thing is that people don’t know that that’s the outcome. They bargain with themselves because it’s an easier option than the above. “Maybe they do just want me to answer some questions?” “What’s the worst these unassuming guys could do?” People tend to normalcy and civility, not fighting authority.
All that to say, if you don’t want to comply you need to make tangible plans and preparations and not just self-assuring thoughts, because they will have certainly prepared for the possibility that you will struggle, or run, or retrieve a weapon.