Kaye (they/them)

i think more ppl should be upset that politicians so clearly intend to establish a surveillance state with the use of ai

The Flock camera subject boils down pretty simply. It is just an attempt by city councils and local governments to nationalize the HOA process and maximize revenue to further bloat government. Your new HOA fee for living in a Flock "secured" city will be catching a fresh fine every time the AI-powered camera system attached to your local trash truck or school bus drives by and determines your grass hasn't been maintained well enough. Fresh shingles in the driveway because you were fixing up that old shed on your property? That's going to be a fine because you didn't submit to bureaucracy and file a permit to fix your own property. This subject is not about preventing crime. It is not a matter of "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about." The flock cameras are about gaining total control over every single thing you do with AI automation to capture and monitor every single second of human existence in the United States. It will be used as a weapon against The People every single second of every single day. It is about maximizing revenue outside of taxes through fees and fines. They are aiming for control past even what the EU has accomplished over the last decade, and they want to do it overnight so there is no time for the people to react. Destroying flock cameras is simply an act of throwing the tea into the harbor, as is our right as Americans when our elected representatives choose to no longer represent us.

Kinda wild how most people generally recognize that the "too sick to go to school, too sick to watch tv/play games" mindset our parents had was bullshit but still impose essentially the exact same rules on disabled adults and scrutinize them for enjoying low-energy hobbies while being too fatigued or in pain to work a full time job (or any job at all)

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses AI and the future of America: "The fact that we have convinced ourselves that our future and our children's future isn't in our own hands is an abomination."

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Robert Eggers on why his film Werwulf is set in 1300: "I learned that basically because of protections for the wool trade, there was a big effort to get rid of all the wolves in England. It was pretty successful. So the movie takes place around 1300, and that’s as late as it could be because once there were no wolves in England, there was no more werewolf lore in England. That became interesting, that it was going to be set so medieval."

Unequivocal proof of AI (Claude-generated) content is buried in its HTML and can be found, across fandoms, in a number of well-known fanfics on Archive of Our Own. This includes, notably, OpalApparition’s “Nutcracker!” and frozenmorningdew’s “hanging by a moment”. 🧵