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- on OpenAI agent hacks Australia's Medicare in world's first known AI breach of government body in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14h ago
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on No Warrant Needed: Border Agents in NY, CT, and VT Can Now Search Your Phone in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
I don’t know how a self-destruct code will work, but if you have password A get into profile A, while password B gets you into a plausibly looking and normal profile B while profile A and password A get deleted, then you can claim your phone was always and ever the way profile B shows it. It doesn’t look or feel “destroyed.” It’s just a normal profile with mundane messages, browsing history, contact list that makes sense, etc.
Good luck proving that anything fishy happened when the whole operation looks and feels like unlocking a normal phone.
You can even setup biometric login to be password B. So if someone gets into your phone with a fingerprint, which feels very normal, they see a normal boring and completely plausible profile.
There is absolutely a way to make phones secure if there is enough will.
That said, it’s a political problem that’s begging for a political rather than a tech solution.
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on Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel All Fled California’s Billionaire Tax. Nvidia’s CEO Isn’t Going Anywhere. Even With an $8 Billion Bill Coming His Way in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
A slave owner can be decent to his slavee, right?
And we can oppose slavery as an institution.
Same with the billionaires. An individual billionaire might not be a pedo fascist. Possible? Sure. I still hate all the billionaires. Even the decent ones. Because allowing a single individual or a single familiy to hoard that much wealth is toxic to the society.
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on A Pensacola Fishing Charter Hauled a Large Military Drone Out of the Gulf in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Mildly informed speculatuon:
In-browser ad bkockers may use anti-anti-ad-blocker filtering rules.
I am pretty sure uBlockOrigin does this by default. But I can’t be sure about the rest at the moment, although my guess is, even the other ad blockers will likely allow at least optionally to set up a filter to remove anti-ad-blocking code from your private copy of a web page you’ve loaded from the net.
DNS filtering naturally will still load all the anti-ad-blocking code, because DNS filtering does not analyze the contents of your private copy of the web page in question.
I am of the opinion that you should NOT have to know all this before you can have a decent and safe experience on the net. It’s shame.
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on A Pensacola Fishing Charter Hauled a Large Military Drone Out of the Gulf in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Are the Russians upstreaming their improvements back to Iran?
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on A Pensacola Fishing Charter Hauled a Large Military Drone Out of the Gulf in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
I loaded the page just fine here on IronFox + uBlockOrigin. FYI. Which ad blocker are you using?
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on Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
I prefer domestic exploitation to the Chinese.
If the billionaires raping my life and my country are American, they are welcome. If they are Chinese, then fuck the CCP.
(do I need /s here?)
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on Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Show me a car without the Chinese components or the Chinese labor involved in its manufacture?
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on Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
That was not an LLM. That said, I do use a chatbot like once a week. Maybe some of their speegh patterns are rubbing off?
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on Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
I don’t have the answer to your qustion, but I like to occasionally consider that there is no such thing as a stupid action, only an action that I don’t understand.
Why would someone talk like that?
Some possibilities:
- To stem all future criticism of Kagi by making the first and the most at the time visible criticism sound braindead. Thus creating an association that all of criticism is braindead.
- To use the reverse psychology to promote Kagi. You say it sucks, and you don’t think it’s worth your time to even explain it? Well, I am a rebel, so as a fuck you, I will use Kagi.
- To further lock in the attention and the mental resources on Kagi. Love it or hate it, be indifferent to it, but here we are thinking about Kagi. Kagi’s profile has been raised.
These three immediately jump at me, because I see people preaching Kagi in a manner of an influence op.
So these negs could be part of the op.
Again. Not saying I know. I don’t. And I likely won’t use Kagi myself. It’s just fun to speculate a bit.
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on People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
The billionaires know they’re essentially immune.
Immune from what exactly? Their biology isn’t unique. They live in information bubbles surrounded by sycophants.
Billionaires with their estates and servants (cooks, nannies, security, lawyers, brokers, PR staff, butlers, etc.) represent a huge attack surface and a very soft belly of capitalism.
Billionaires are not like Trump who can lean on the USA’s first-tier state actor security, the US Secret Service (which isn’t even all that great as we have seen for ourselves, only human).
Why are the billionaires building themselves doomsday bunkers? Because they feel scared or because they feel secure?
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on I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Very informative, thanks.
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on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
The police are our, the public’s, servants.
What proprietary information can they have from us? Literally everything they do and who they are must be transparent and auditable at all times.
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on UN Human Rights Chief Says a ‘Handful of Men’ Have ‘Almost Unlimited Power’ Over AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
If I were a ferengi, I would be loving this whole setup.
If.
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on Your LG TV Might Be Spying on Your Entire Network While You Think It's Turned Off in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
The person you are replying to said that the smart TV collects spy data onto a hard drive even when it’s not connected.
Then once the TV acquires a connection, it dumps the entire drive worth of spy data to the mothership.
The danger here is obvious, I think.
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on Documents reveal plans for $6 utility rate hike to help fund Google’s data center project in Memphis in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
But why?
I once worked for a startup where the founder and the CEO was a hundred(s) millionaire, and he could have easily funded the startup on his own. And you know what? He’d be constantly pitching to investors, nonstop. And when the other investors lost confidence, he closed the business.
It’s a matter of principle for many of these people. You don’t ever want to risk your own money unless there is no other choice. It doesn’t matter if you can afford it. The question is why? If I can spend your money why would I spend my own? It makes no sense.
These billionaires will spend our money, time, dreams, energy indefinitely, if they can. Only if there is an absolute and absolutely unbypassable barrier that prevents them from even trying would they stop. They won’t ever volunteer to stop.
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on Gaming Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade full of parody games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
the checks and balances
Once the checks clear, their balances reflect it.
Oh, you meant different checks and different balances. Never mind.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Yea, fuck them both.
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on Exemption on age verification for Linux operating systems in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Are they the avarage teen ij the avarage family tho? I feel like we cannot call that avarage if the parent uses the Fediverse xD
Self-marginalization for the “win.”
Limp energy.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Blame jobs, not cook.
Why not both?
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Their biology is the same. What’s missing is common cause.
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on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Apple, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, those are some of the pupeteers. The Orange Pedo, The Guardians Of the Pedophiles (GOP) party, and the corporate Fascism Lite Democratic Party (we promise to build one concentration camp fewer than the GOP, so vote for us Dems) are the lackeys.
We have to be careful, because The Democratic Party is not a monolith. Some of the Dems are actually economic populists, which is a good thing.
This doesn’t change the fact that most Dems are just the less angry, the slightly less brutal, and the smilier fascists who don’t literally rape people usually, unlike the GOP who are pro-rape in addition to being against democracy and against The Constitution outright.
Hakeem Jeffries recently met with Jared Kushner to, you know, talk about things and to plot together.
How I wish that everything I wrote above was just a giant hyperbole. But, everything I say here is factual. This timeline has me feeling like I am taking crazy pills every day.
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on US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.« in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
It’s only a problem if you want to set up a good policy once and never touch it again.
Life doesn’t work like that. “The problem with cleaning my room is that it gets dirty again.” Well, duh.
Politics is a never ending process of vigilance and fighting. A policy should not be judged as “bad” simply because it requires vigilance and teeth at all times. Literally all good policies require now and will continue to require participation.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Is Linus error-free pre-AI?
If AI makes Linus more (quantity) or more severely (quality) error-prone than without the AI, that, and only that is an argument against AI being a tech asset for Linus.
Just one bad Linux kernel commit slip up related to AI is not an argument.
That said, the macro impact of the AI data centers and AI on: electric power generation and grids, pollution (smelly exhaust, noise, CO2), fresh water demands, socioeconomic power imbalance exacerbation, surveillance capitalism, questionable military usages, rogue agentic AI doing hacks and crimes to fulfill oterwise legal/ethical objectives, AI chatbot relationship addiction, these are some of what I consider real and urgent problems with AI.
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on Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Single source hardware is a security liability. If Google does something to the hardware or firmware, the GrapheneOS project would be screwed. Google has already hobbled AOSP.
We cannot overly depend on Google’s or any one company’s good will.
I think GrapheneOS should think about gradually steering the project toward a basket of hardware companies. Shifting to Motorola is necessary in the near term, but the whole situation with Google’s behavior needs to be a wake up call.
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on Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
The lady with the toughest boostraps.
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on GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE); GrapheneOS might skip the the whole pixel 11 series in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Apparently the Linux kernel can emulate MTE in software:
The software MTE support in the kernel apparently predates the hardware support of the same, based on the above link.
Admittedly I might be misunderstanding something here, my confidence level is only 65%.
p.s.: i just learned that this uses a lot of extra RAM compared to hardware MTE. there seem to be approaches to mitigate the RAM blow up, but this discussion is above my paygrade, so I have to bow out. That said, I think it is correct that the absense of hardware MTE should not be the end of the road for secure smartphone design.
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on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
I believe it was Axon.
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on Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOS in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
(nothing I am about to say is necessarily personal; I am genuinely grateful for the link!)
Is there a table of these requirements as columns and vendors as rows?
I think most of this list is acquired by having a modern CPU or SoC, no?
Much of the list is software requirements.
There is one item that sticks out:
- Support for disabling USB data and also USB as a whole at a hardware level in the USB controller
Just how much of the hardware list is satisfied by say having a Snapdragon SoC?
I would prefer if people said such and such vendor is missing such and such feature which we need. Always NAME the SPECIFICS. A link to a web page with the exact specifics missing for the most popular phones would help, imo. This is clear and educational. Instead we get “they don’t got no good hardware maaaan.” It’s annoying. Looks handwavy even when it is not.
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on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
We should consider divorcing Goggle from Android via something like GrapheneOS or /e/OS.
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on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
I appreciate the spirit of reistance, also +1 for the left hand path, however, the broader society needs a more solid solution to these privacy-invading and covertly installing apps. I get it you’re doing the best you know how. I am in the same boat. But we need something more solid for the long term.
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on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
No shit. The billionaires at the top worry about public safety, would you believe it? (giant fucking sarcasm tag goes here for all my asperger ftiends)
Who owns the (fully paid up) phone that’s in my hands right now? I try to tell myself I do, but…
Yea, I am not a happy camper.
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on Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOS in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
I have a Moto phone, as far as I know they have made $0 from me in analytics or ads.
Moto phones in my experience are some of the most debloated phones out there.
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on Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOS in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
I keep hearing this thing about the necessary hardware.
What is this exotic piece of hardware that the GrapheneOS needs? Please, someone tell me what it is.
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on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
AI could maybe help stress test the game before the final release. If AI were used like that, the game itself would likely not be considered slopified.
The dirty data centers, the RAM chip grab, the widening divide between the haves and the have nots being exacerbated by the billionaire AI ownership, these problems have to be addressed before I can even consider the other issues. AI as tech is usable, but as a socioeconomic phenomenon it is hugely problematic.
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on How often do y'all use a VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 25 Aug 2026
I apologise for a 2nd reply, I just wanted to clarify.
What I cannot readily control (or don’t know how) is the internal hunger stemming from the soul (mine or enemy’s).
But which hungers get to dominate in a public arena, I do have a say in that. So having some hunger may be inevitable, but making that personal hunger into an impositional system for everyone, that’s not inevitable.
So yea, they want hardware attestation now. They’re not relaxing until they find out what we do with the fingerprinting ecosystem first. That’s laughable.
Since they’re going to do what they’re going to do, and since the outcome is never set in stone ahead of time but instead has to be discovered by living life, we have no reason not to chase our dreams and ambitions as much as they chase theirs. I have no reason to preemptively block or throttle my energy. I am not here to please any would be nannies. I have fears, but do not allow my fears to impact my logic. And besides I fear surveillance capitalism more than whatever else the “punishment” is promised to be.
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on How often do y'all use a VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 25 Aug 2026
Nothing is inevitable. Everything is negotiable.
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on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
With how things are going now, every day I am more amenable to this line of thinking.
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on How often do y'all use a VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 25 Aug 2026
Again we’re back to bad fear-based logic.
You’re saying hardware attestation is a looming punishment for poisonin fingerprinting.
Wrong.
The enemy wants hardware attestation now, and they want it bad. Nothing you do or avoid doing can influence this because they, the enemy, are responding to their own hungers.
I repeat, there are only two valid reasons to stop prosecuting a fight, and this isn’t one of them.
You are offering an incorrect model of the enemy as a nanny who will try to shape my behavior in responce to my behavior. I “need” to please the nanny and I “need” to avoid pissing off the nanny. Your argument is designed for that sentiment: nanny-pleasing.
The correct model is one based on INTERESTS. The enemy has an interest in hardware attestation regardless of what we do or don’t do. They will prosecute their interests KNOWING those are deeply unpopular. Look at the Guardians Of Pedophiles party, the GOP in USA. They are unpopular. They are hated. They KNOW this. They keep trucking. Why? The INTEREST didn’t go away. The interest is not socially shaped, unfortunately (or fortunately?).
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on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
With the way things are going being pro-Constitution will soon be terrorism.
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on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
I am not even against the yacht money, just fucking STOP with the ARISTOCRATIC behaviors, dynamics, incentives.
I support a wealth cap ample enough to own a yacht, but not enough to make rogue aristocravcy viable. At least for now. The billionaires are doing everything they can to convince me that maybe even the yacht money is too much wealth holding.
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on How often do y'all use a VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
I don’t think what you’re saying here in this last reply competes with what I am saying.
It is both/and. Not either/or.
My strat combines naturally with using advocacy, electoralism, lying flat, malicious compliance methods, militancy, legal/beurocratic methods, economic methods, etc.
I am for all of these. Whatever works.
But ignoring the human relationship dimension and exclusively focusing on prosecuting tech, imo, is not a serious strategy.
Besides, someone who needs to hide their ID now should use Tor now. Someone who has a lower risk profile can afford a solution that aims to poison the well for the long term in preference to a better ID protection.
I am not doing anything illegal, I want to poison the well if I can. I still use Tor sometimes anyway. I want the whole fingerprinting industry to just go away.
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on How often do y'all use a VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
Just fundamentally, to fight, you have want to win.
You are arguing to stop fighting on the basis of a supposedly improper desire. Wanting small bite sized things is proper. Wanting something audacious is not. Your kind of argument could work in theory if my desire is unserious. That’s just psychology, not technology.
The scariness and the capabilities of an adversary is never, on their own, a proper reason to not fight.
The valid reasons can be: a deeply reasoned and deeply felt long term change in priorities, or a tactical hiatus to rest, regroup, reload. These are completely internal affairs, meaning, a serious person cannot be casually argued either into or out of these. I would check in with my soul to know whether or not to fight. Not with strangers on the net.
People fight to satisfy a certain hunger, and not because it looks easy or is a popular thing.
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on How often do y'all use a VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
Of these Tor is the best for protecting identity, however Tor produces a recognizeably Tor-like fingerprint, which for my preference is not ideal.
So for example Tor browsers can all be denied access, because Tor, not the individual user, but the kind of browser used, can still be identified.
My ultimate latent goal isn’t to only protect the anonymity of a security-conscious user, but to poison all fingerprinting data so that the entire technique is abandoned as useless.
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on How often do y'all use a VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
fonts, screen resolution, many things can affect fingerprint.
The solution is not “a browser from a reputable company.”
It will be a browser designed by security professionals to spoof fingerprints, along with a “crawler” that analyzes the current blend of fingerprints already out there, crawling not web pages but the request headers instead, and canvas outputs, etc.
I don’t think such a browser plus infrastructure exist yet, but they will. It is inevitable.
Such a browser will output garbage yet plausible and believable fingerprints that maximize ambiguity.
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on How often do y'all use a VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
Always, unless by mistake it is off.
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on Just be honest in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
I’d rather read something like that than 50 pages worth of legaleeze.
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on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Wealth concentration is problematic.
Capitalism on its own doesn’t have any guaranteed and deliberate, measured, studied, tested and understood anti-concentrationist dynamics.
What we get from the cappies instead is a head fake like this: “Check out this example of a corporation losing wealth and its competitor gaining wealth. Now add the magical invisible hand. Therefore, capitalism magically balances itself out.”
But while there is always a rags to richies story to be found, and also an occasional redistribution from one cappie to the next, at the macro level we see a totally different picture.
At the macro level property/wealth holdings concentrate. Reliably. If left alone. More and more is owned by fewer and fewer hands.
And ownership isn’t just about the balance sheet. The owners tell nonowners how to live. It’s about power and dominance.
The landlord tells their tenants how to cut grass, how to aqcept and not accept guests and for how long, what to keep and not keep inside the appartment/flat. Etc. The employer tells the worker how to dress, when to show up and where, what to do, how to do it, and what you can and cannot do on your time off, and it doen’t stop there because there is no line where the cappie says to hirself, “ok, this is plenty of dominance for me, I am satisfied, I will stop making additional demands.” So the cappies tell their workers how to vote, how to organize or not organize, how to share or not share certain information (like about their own salary), etc. Doesn’t matter if it’s legal or if it is enforceable. It works often enough that it makes it worth it to cappies to keep pushing the line.
So not having the wealth is bad enough on its own, but when every aspect of life is tightly managed, including how to think and not to think, capitalism rapes your soul in addition to either keeping you poor, or forcing a neverending hassle, a neverending energy drain on you, unless and until you yourself become a cappie.
That is criminal.
And capitalism doesn’t value anything not denominated in currency. Thus the commons get raped, science is only OK if someone somewhere is profiting, etc.
You get cities that are dirty, dense with money making properties, and little to no space to kick back for free, etc. Anywhere it is not like that is because people pushed back! And not because the cappies prefer ample parks or open land.
Just the fact that the accounting books are almost always the most closely guarded secret of a cappie, that alone, if you are knowledgeable about how power works, should tell you everything about what kind of relationship exists between the various people under capitalism. Workers are roped by the system into projects the details of which they aren’t welcome to know. And the government is also not welcome to audit anything.
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on 'Darth Vader' Wants Flock in San Diego in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 21 Aug 2026
I want body cameras and body microphones on all the billionaires.
Lets flip the script. The billionaires are a source of danger. They require live monitoring so long as they exist.
“The cameras are protecting you from the guillotines. We want you to stay healthy and safe, mr. billionaire.”
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
We should still benefit from China making good memory chips. Assuming the chips are fungible, China might buy fewer Samsung or Taiwanese chips and that’s more chips for us.
I think there is enough here for a judge to order a search warrant. It doesn’t mean yet a crime has been committed, but there is enough to start some kind of compelled discovery process to find out what the fuck is going on.
Since it’s an important enough corporation that got caught, in a sane society it should not make a difference, but we low key have a two-tiered justice system from the looks of it.