#technocrats

[osakanone]

Techworkers in 2028, when the government tries to take away their essential medications (HRT, SSRIs, ADHD meds, etc):

The poetic similitude, that the neural net computer he smashes is based on the CM1, the godfather of all modern GPUs fuelling neural network bullshit today.

How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code

A man in Oakland, California, disrupted web development around the world last week by deleting 11 lines of code.

Code has never been more fragile than it is today. The potential for genuine political action through it is beyond imagination.

When the government takes away their essential medications, I cannot see how else this will go.

As the great matron saint of computing, Emmanuel "Cereal Killer" Goldstein once said:

1998 was a typo.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

At least the tick doesn’t sell your data.

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[grayrazor]

V-tail Beechcrafts are kinda the airplane version of Lamborghinis, in that they are infamous for ending up crashed by upper-middle-class affluent technical experts like doctors, engineers, or lawyers; who buy them as a hobby project and then overestimate their ability to handle such dangerous toys.

[kramlabs]

Trump Is Building a Bigger Deep State with the Help of "Libertarian" Peter Thiel | Mises Institute

JD Vance is Palantir’s man and every call for “Vance 2028” is likely music to the ears of the deep state and its Big Tech allies.

[areadersquotelibrary]

“As technology and Big Data advance, they enable the near-total bureaucratization of life—despite the fact that the promise of technology was exactly the opposite, to liberate life from bureaucracy.”

— Andrew Smart, Beyond Zero and One: Machines, Psychedelics, and Consciousness

[takunwilliams]

laughing all the way to the bank

[jareckiworld]

Ian Davis — Technocrats  (acrylic on panel, 2020)

[onetwistedmiracle]

"But by the 1970s, the great proprietors had gotten tired of this arrangement. The generation with direct adult experience of how destabilized societies can explode into a worldwide slaughterhouse was retiring and dying."

America’s privileged technocrats are not ready for what’s about to happen to them.