You know what isn't productive? Name calling and gaslighting.
Not if you don't own a cellphone...
I'm sure it would never be abused by tyrannical governments, fascist billionaires, or weapons manufacturers. /s
If they can block suicide ideation with such a device, they certainly can stimulate it, and cause mass suicide. Or on the other hand, they could drive users into a deep depression and turn them into suicide bombers.
Before I was suspended on Reddit, I had several unsolicited encounters with chatbots that were being tested there. Most were pretty obvious, and couldn't carry on a conversation beyond a few exchanges. However, the techniques were quite concerning, as they all seemed to be targeting users that were known influencers, sometimes in weird echo-chambery ways. I believe it was early testing of personalized psychological warfare bots, to shape the infospace.
Fast forward to today, and Military A.I. chatbots are likely being used to create terrorist cells using these techniques in mass, but directed at the most vulnerable amongst us: addicts, mentally disabled, etc. When China supposedly hacked Anthem, it was the first attack against the U.S. to collect as much health/mental health data on people, to create target lists.
It's a scaled up version of what Trump/Bannon/Nix did with Cambridge Analytica creating an incel army on Reddit during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign.
This is fantastic news. Lithium battery technology has proven to be unreliable, too slow to charge, dangerous and exploitive of the environment and labor. Hydrogen is the way.
The article says they are downsizing the psyop's special ops folks, but where are they going? I wonder if they are just moving on to Hollywood, social media or legacy media and needed an excuse for the downsize with a nice PR spin. They've been slowly pushing ex-military psyops specialists into Academia for several years, but if they are going to continue to wage a psyop war against the U.S. public, then they'll need there most experienced front line psyop warriors to do so. They were pushing them into the FBI and DHS, but the Twitter Files have exposed the corruption in the U.S. Executive Branch, when it proved the FBI and DHS were in fact telling social media to censor.
To spice it up even more, Jim Jordan tossed his hat in for Speaker of the House. As chair of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government, Jordan already has a lot on his plate if he plans to actually investigate the repeated abuses of peoples 1st Amendment rights. Can he do both? Perhaps trying to draw him into a Speaker position is an attempt to weaken the Weaponization committed by dividing his time?
It's not just the search engines, it's the always on instant gratification machine that is called the smartphone. The only thing it's smart at, is stealing your privacy, stealing your money, and finally stealing your soul. Throw it away, and limit your internet usage to 1-2 hours per day max.
76 days to notice an expired cert!
Transcript from Taibbi's Substack page