• Hohsia [any]@hexbear.net
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        10 days ago

        Ignorance when it comes to the internet is just miles and leagues worse than you can possibly imagine. I’m convinced that musk hasn’t thought about data retention for 20 years if not longer. “Permanent modern digital records?” There’s no fucking way

        With a dash of Sunday scaries anxiety, below I channel my inner UlyssesT (may he rest in peace)

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        Of course I would miss my precious hexagonal bear, but it would be a net good if a foreign actor dismantled the west’s flimsy network architecture in an unprecedented cyber attack and forced people outside once again. We’re all miserable whether we admit it or not (this is quite the take and I can defend it if someone feels strongly against it but I think people might know what I’m talking about) and have no company outside of emulating it in the most constrained and toxic digital pods which are a copy and paste of the environment depicted in the Matrix. If that wasn’t bad enough, we’re removing all likelihood of anything hinting at Socratic dialogue by firmly keeping people placated by their echo chambers, filled to the brim with numerous algorithmic systems tokenizing and manipulating our brain chemistry on the fly. We’re then wrapping all of this up in stolen data to train systems which require the same resources we need to survive.

        This is a reality that would leave Vonnegut wishing he never would have existed