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.

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grim_io 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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mystraline 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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

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ceejayoz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	gslepak 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They want to scan your soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v5HLLkgo5A
	▲	xerox13ster 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They want the future setting of Unanimity in Cloud Atlas. Even that might be too much of an underclass.

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nosioptar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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markstos 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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roysting an hour ago | parent [-]

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 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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-...

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cucumber3732842 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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clint 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> 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?

	▲	roysting an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.