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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 14h

the primary purpose of AI is organizing vast amounts of data (ie, your data) and creating an instantaneous point of contact so that billionaires and authoritarians can generate files on people in seconds

the secondary purpose is "helping you with your emails"

DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 1d

Hello AI is a data collection and mass surveillance apparatus masquerading as a public utility. It's not there to help you.

You are the product. Your data is being collected.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

Update:

I am apparently a dumbass (this is fine)

Police history is equal parts hilarious and awful

They have spontaneously arisen at various points in history to primarily enforce the laws that rich people hold most dear which tends to be... property. The slavery point is apt.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

From what I've been reading, it appears to have been a lot of "get the big guy to get other people to do what we want" and "get that gang and make them legal and then use that gang to get people to do what we want."

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

been reading about the history of American Policing since getting dunked on for this and it's equal parts hilarious and awful

also yeah maybe nothing's really changed

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

Yep, agreed with you there. Just thought it might be interesting to look into his "lesser" work given the rate at which he is invoked in the present moment.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

This is absolutely what I've read in the last hour yes. Also, it sure looks like a lot of police forces were codified in the 1850's which means... that a lot of them in the South WERE established precisely for the claimed reasons.

The North appears to have been different, but yeah.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

Welp, time to pick it up.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

Oooof. Didn't he also publish a diary on this?

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah this is well stated. It also happened to be in a conversation at a party and said in a way that was kind of outrageous, but that just sounds like me making excuses when it was mostly just ignorance on my part. Looking into it now... the history of policing is much darker than expected.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

For sure! And reading a lot on it now. The history of policing is wild.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

been reading about the history of American Policing since getting dunked on for this and it's equal parts hilarious and awful

also yeah maybe nothing's really changed

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

Update:

I am apparently a dumbass (this is fine)

Police history is equal parts hilarious and awful

They have spontaneously arisen at various points in history to primarily enforce the laws that rich people hold most dear which tends to be... property. The slavery point is apt.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah been reading a history of the police since getting dunked on a bit for this post and it's far wilder than expected

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah time to read a little more American history

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 5h

And to be clear, I was mostly questioning the claim that police didn't exist before this and were only codified to serve this purpose, which... may still have been the case in certain jurisdictions.

Clearly I didn't have a great education in history.

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 5h

you know what that's fair

DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 5h

Appreciate it

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 5h

Either way, seems pretty naive in retrospect

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah fair question. I think it's two reasons:

1) There are a lot of reasons for some kind of law enforcement apparatus to exist, and I had a hard time believing that it came about solely for the reasons stated

2) At the time, I had a hard time believing in this kind of organized evil

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I should have

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 6h

A friend used to tell me that the police started as a system to catch runaway slaves in the South and I never quite believed it until now

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 7h

what if we made fascist bootlicking a competitive sport

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 11h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Dollars to donuts those edgelords have never organized an actual protest consisting of more than like five edgelord friends

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 8h

ooof yeah

honestly Ozymandias is basically "what if Peter Thiel was cool"

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