Are you a luddite?

[luka]

abolish money then

 

[sufi]

I've had iPhones for years and have never used Siri, and never had the slightest interest in Alexa, etc. What's the benefit of surrendering all this personal information just to be able to say "Alexa, play 'Heaven's in the Backseat of My Cadillac' " versus just getting the record off the shelf or playing it on YouTube?

i am so fed up with mouse and keyboard though, aching and twisted, all the tendons and muscles developing knots and weird shapes from contorting around these weird shaped devices,constantly tangled in cables and frizzing from bluetooth, multiple bands of GHz wifi and phone snignals, always at the mercy of bandwidth, battery, reception, capacity,

crappy devices, even the slickest are like seamless cartoon computers, so i feel like they are just provisional, temporary, it's easy to imagine how shit this tech will look in retrospect - like primitive torture devices

 

[luka]

true

 

[sufi]

and i guess some people can enjoy issuing commands to the computer by voice,
and it should be simple to configure a device that you can trust not to spy on you
i think it's good to talk to yr computer like its a dog

 

[Murphy]

Fetch is one of the Covid pandemic’s enhanced command prompts, irony is every few years the Daily Mail or suchlike will run a hate campaign on couriers by red faced gimps demanding to know why their parcel was late

“So and so are cunts. They left my mountain bike with a neighbour while we were out and I had to carry it home across the road myself in felt slippers, please sack the driver immediately or face immediately legal action”, see Ken Loach

 

[william kent]

"When technology reaches a certain level, people begin to feel like criminals," he said. "Someone is after you, the computers maybe, the machine-police. You can't escape investigation. The facts about you and your whole existence have been collected or are being collected. Banks, insurance companies, credit organizations, tax examiners, passport offices, reporting services, police agencies, intelligence gatherers. It's a little like what I was saying before. Devices make us pliant. If they issue a print-out saying we're guilty, then we're guilty. But it goes even deeper, doesn't it? It's the presence alone, the very fact, the superabundance of technology, that makes us feel we're committing crimes. Just the fact that these things exist at this widespread level. The processing machines, the scanners, the sorters. That's enough to make us feel like criminals. What enormous weight. What complex programs. And there's no one to explain it to us."

-- Don DeLillo, 'Running Dog' (1978)​

 

[Leo]

spot on, and from more than 40 years ago

 

[Clinamenic]

I think programming languages are becoming more important than all other languages aside from English and maybe a couple others.

By "programming languages" I really mean a generic vocabulary and grammar of pseudo-universal terms across programming languages.

 

[william kent]

Don't laugh, Luke. He's a serious artist.

 

[catalog]

"When technology reaches a certain level, people begin to feel like criminals," he said. "Someone is after you, the computers maybe, the machine-police. You can't escape investigation. The facts about you and your whole existence have been collected or are being collected. Banks, insurance companies, credit organizations, tax examiners, passport offices, reporting services, police agencies, intelligence gatherers. It's a little like what I was saying before. Devices make us pliant. If they issue a print-out saying we're guilty, then we're guilty. But it goes even deeper, doesn't it? It's the presence alone, the very fact, the superabundance of technology, that makes us feel we're committing crimes. Just the fact that these things exist at this widespread level. The processing machines, the scanners, the sorters. That's enough to make us feel like criminals. What enormous weight. What complex programs. And there's no one to explain it to us."

-- Don DeLillo, 'Running Dog' (1978)​

I thought these posts were not allowed from now on @shiels @sufi ? Or is jury still out? I'll wait till I get confirmation before I read it sorry @version

 

[catalog]

Just a joke, sorry version. Ill read it.

 

[woops]

-- Don DeLillo, 'Running Dog' (1978)​

context. nice

 

[william kent]

 

[luka]

RAND and the WEF have been going hard on this. they absolutely love that microchip shit.

 

[william kent]

 

[luka]

yes thats a sleight of hand we've all scolded Stan for many times

 

[william kent]

It's the same thing we've gone back and forth on re: capitalism as some sort of entity too.

 

[Version]

yes thats a sleight of hand we've all scolded Stan for many times

he'll love this:

A new patent application by Microsoft details a way to use bodily functions, such as brain activity, to mine cryptocurrency.

The application, entitled “Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data” explains how a “brain wave or body heat emitted from the user when the user performs the task provided by an information service provider, such as viewing an advertisement or using certain internet services, can be used in the mining process.”

By tracking brainwaves when someone watches an advert, Microsoft hopes to use the data generated as a “proof-of-work.” This is the validation of a transaction, or the completion of a task, in a blockchain system, and the way in which creation of currency is validated in a cryptocurrency model.

Microsoft Patent Describes Tracking Brain Activity to Mine Cryptocurrency

 

[william kent]

 

[william kent]

he'll love this:

Microsoft Patent Describes Tracking Brain Activity to Mine Cryptocurrency