[brushfoot]

No more anonymous driving, thanks to Flock. Soon, no more anonymous calls, thanks to the FCC.

Your bank already knows everything about you; why not your operating system, too?

Soon your ISP will only let you online if your OS sends them the "right" information: your government ID.

We should also abolish cash while we're at it. The government needs to know every purchase you've ever made, no exceptions.

Of course, then we should tear down used bookstores. They're the biggest risk of all. Anyone can walk in and pick up pieces of paper that teach them dangerous ideas. Other religions. Philosophies. Poetry. How to make things.

What we really need is a nation of drones walking to and fro in the image of our rulers, thinking their thoughts, practicing their religions, and parroting their words. It's the only way to be truly safe.

[grim_io]

Worse, we are becoming a burden.

The Thiels of the world are already past wanting an obedient consumer.

They don't need us for the utopia they imagine for themselves.

[EasyMark]

They want us replaced by machines that are 100% compliant slaves, they're hoping for AI with human capabilities (or better) and no will to pushback at their tyrannical natures.

[Nasrudith]

You're projecting harder than IMAX here with your conspiracy theory tropes. Remember it was the Bolsheviks who actually liquidated entire classes of people as 'useless parasites'.

[grim_io]

You can listen to Thiel yourself and form your opinion, I don't have an agenda to change anyone's mind.

I do wonder though how you hallucinated me as a Bolshevik sympathiser.

[mystraline]

It was a terrible scattered movie, but they want Elysium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)

[ceejayoz]

No, Elysium still had all the desperate poor people. That's not the end goal.

[gslepak]

They want to scan your soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v5HLLkgo5A

[xerox13ster]

They want the future setting of Unanimity in Cloud Atlas. Even that might be too much of an underclass.

[EasyMark]

right, they definitely want depopulation down to the levels their paid hacks tell them is sustainable for a compliant population, "saving the earth", and continue to lives out as gods.

[nosioptar]

Can even go to the bodega on foot anonymously, too many of my neighbors have ring cameras pointed at the street.

[markstos]

Flock is being rejected in a number of cities, thanks to citizens.

[burner000333]

How data-driven policing is sold, spoke to someone who set it up once, good odds FLock is doing it, or in the spirit of the below, Flock doesn't have to do it:

- There are networked webcams everywhere: DoT cameras, 18 wheeler fleet cameras, traffic cams, etc.

- Local PD doesn't want to make a deal with Flock

- For average jane and joe citizenry: great, no Flock in town!

- For ongoing negotiations with Flock and the PD: ok, sure, kick us out of town. But we'll just pull the 18wheeler feeds with the vendor we have an agreement with, as they roll through town. Or the DoT feeds via the State contract we have or the...

- As such, negotiations could land as does local PD at least want the control of the feeds already going through their town with each Sysco big rig delivery?

Very, very tricky terrain to solve.

[chickensong]

> Local PD doesn't want to make a deal with Flock

Except, they totally want to make a deal with Flock. If not Flock, another similar vendor.

[roysting]

I am quite confident that there will eventually in any of those cities be some kind of major mass casualty type event that will be attributed to that rejection. I don’t hope for it and am sorry for all of humanity for what we are allowing to seemingly inevitably come about, but here we are; like cattle being herded to the feed lot. “But they’re saying they’ll feed you”, you will hear, “they don’t mean you ill. You should stop being a conspiracy theorists. This food is good.”

[collinmcnulty]

We’ll see how it goes, but we also have suits like this that push back on that narrative as if you’re going to say your tech protects against a certain kind of tragedy, and that tragedy actually happens and you didn’t protect against it, maybe you bear some liability.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/school-shooting-...

[cucumber3732842]

Every step of the way enabled by useful idiots who think that because each incremental step applies more/cheaper government violence to some class of petty deviants they don't like that it is worth doing even if the overall trajectory created by the sum total of the steps is bad. Selfish jerks.

[clint]

> We should also abolish cash while we're at it.

Why do you think all the rich people (and by extension the oligarchy running this country) are pushing Crypto?

[Cider9986]

Monero is the best alternative to cash. And any crypto acceptance helps you pay with Monero because crypto-->crypto is 10x easier than crypto-->fiat.

[roysting]

I don’t think pointing that out will get very far. People didn’t notice when “democracy” was pushed by the same people, in direct contradiction to the Constitution. “Democracy” was the lynchpin to neutralize the Constitution and usher in oligarchic control again, just like digital/programmable currency will complete the pivot of slavery into a total and global system. Why only enslave a few people when you can enslave all people with smoke and mirrors that will make them cheer on their own deception with amusement.