At the core of our great American experiment is liberty.
Freedom is a proximity issue; liberty is about how we engage life. I would argue, the issue of liberty is perhaps the single most consequential facet of the next several years that few people are discussing.
The Tech Bros as they are now colloquially called, are building the tools for rapid expansion of the surveillance state.
Palantir (Peter Thiel) is leading the way to connect Real ID with facial recognition; the system has both military and domestic application. Oracle (Larry Ellison) is building out cloud storage and data processing with speeds to capture massive data and link the tools. xAI (Elon Musk) is building the refinement system for specifically directed targeting. In whole these networks are creating the tools for the Surveillance State.
As we learned with the Obama administration. Every tool within this process is but one election away from being a weapon. However, the fully engaged AI surveillance system has some very predictable probabilities.
Within the AI surveillance system, which I continually assert is not compatible with liberty, the tools are being designed to avoid certain outcomes.
A nuclear weapon kills everyone within the same proximity. AI used as a weapon has the ability to skip certain targets as defined by the people who deploy the detonation.
While the future forecast says that everyone remains essentially “free,” the same cannot be predicted for “liberty.” Some people will be more equal to constitutional protections than others. This is the baseline for my opposition to the specific AI weapon being created by the Tech Bros.
At a certain point this weaponized AI conversation gets very alarming. Using a reference that some might remember, essentially capability shifts from Truckers being debanked for opposing government, to Truckers being de-personed for opposing government. The Truck is disabled before the Trucker arrives at the protest point, and the Trucker is identified and warned proactively. Phones stop working, credit cards and atm’s are moot, GPS is disabled, and the Trucker encounters a place where every tech interface rejects his/her transactional intent.
Now, insert “Politically Exposed Persons” (PEP) as defined by the political control operators wherever you see the word Trucker to expand the point. The PEP might be “free,” but does the PEP have liberty.
In building the system there are going to be key inflection points where an American engineer on the process might take exception with the contracted tool being built. How do the Tech Bros avoid that problem, H1Bs.
Off topic and more simplistic. That picture is very telling to me. Almost subliminal messaging. Not sure if picture is altered, but notice the prominence of Vance in foreground, Musk positioned closely behind. Trump receding in size, followed by an even smaller visualization of Johnson.
Vance is the seed. Thiel owns him.
Endorsing Johnson tells you all you need to know about our future.
I am not convinced of that. I suspect endorsing Johnson has been a compromise for Trump, he has to work within the architecture of congress. He is dependent on the whole of congress to get any legislation he desires passed and to fund all of his policies. I think he is pragmatic in choosing Johnson, who is the best option in this tight spot before he is inaugurated.
You are absolutely correct! Good for you – we need more thinkers, and less reactionaries.
Seems Musk missed the irony of his own going nuclear on people who want to get rid of his cherished government program.
I hope he’s ready for that same reaction x1000 aimed at him when he brings up literally anything at “DOGE”…
Yes, Musk lost it and yes the reaction from powerful people to his DOGE will be much, much greater. I hope he maintains his cool better going forward.
Those writing the program have evil intent: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-ai-chatbot-threatening-message-human-please-die/
Surveillance use to be the neighborhood would phone your mom
That was “good surveillance.” Not anymore.
My mom did that and so did her friends. It was expected in the 50s, 60s, early 70s.
Sadly, money makes the RULES, and if you’re wondering why everything seems completely CORRUPT, and it is, all one has to do is follow the MONEY. The MATH component of MONEY never lies, the massive amount of FRAUD in Wall St, the Financial Markets,Commercial Real Estate, Big Banks, etc. is off the charts, the side doesn’t matter, only the MONEY. We will go from LAWFARE to wondering if they are watching us SLEEP…President Trump has a massive job ahead, there are too many ways for the MONEY to INFLUENCE, humans are so easily BOUGHT, as Sundance always says, there are TRILLIONS at stake………Musk, Ellison, Bezos, etc.
So, if the dollar collapses the corrupt system hopefully collapses with it.
They want the dollar to collapse so it can be replaced with digital money.
That’s the plan, but it has more than a few holes in it.
The corrupt system (aka the Beast System) is being designed to be put into place when the dollar collapses. You will have to take a mark in order to buy and sell and they will know everything that you do thanks to these technocratic monsters and if you don’t follow the rules, your ability to buy and sell will be suspended, revoked, or removed.
It can go either way, the dollar can collapse and the corrupt system regroups under a different name.
I’ve heard stories of prisoners exchanging pages of an old, worn out paper Bible to read and encourage each other when the guards weren’t looking. When humans want to organize and communicate, it can happen. Old technology if necessary. But it takes courage.
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Memorize scripture.
And we have someone like Elon Mush telling us to F ourselves in the face and go to war with us if we don’t like what he wants. This is someone who can be trusted with these kinds of powers to de-bank/de-person at his whim? How is this compatible with our constitution? Are some pigs going to be “more equal” on Elon Mush’s new Animal Farm? Can we just go analog? Can we form our own network of “free banks”? How about some solutions, SD? You are good at exposing the nightmares but offer no ideas. Do you and your tech friends have any ideas on how we can prepare/stop this or at least decouple from their Orwellian quagmire? That would make a good future article.
Keep using cash and stash some gold/silver. Have a store of food so you are not forced into anything. Some states are forming banks and no we can’t. Establish business relationships with like minded people.
While my objective is still to avoid social media as much as possible, I did sign up with Rumble. I like to stay up with what Bongino says as he cares about protecting PDJT. The challenge will be to stay under the ‘radar’ for AI notice / surveillance.
This hits the nail on the head. Maybe it should be at the start of the article too so more people see it.
I’ve worried for some time that H1B acts as Janissarys for the corporate surveillance state due to their non-loyalty.
Janissary – Wikipedia
Exactly, Janissaries and not only in tech but in the military in exchange for citizenship. I do not think many US moms want their sons in Ukraine.
Another “Hello Dave” moment in the new interconnected age of America.
Sounds like a couple of books from the Bible. Daniel and Revelation to be exact! 🤔
Not long now, folks.
I stopped quoting “Give me liberty or give me death.” Why? I don’t want to die.