“Free” surveillance is a trap. Vendor trials, private donors, and federal grants hand police no‑cost tools that quietly build massive databases on all of us and feed ICE and DHS pipelines. Cities can and should refuse the bait.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/free-surveillance-tech-still-comes-high-and-dangerous-cost
@lwriemen
This 👇
"I describe ChatGPT as “the opposite of good software”. As in, it’s not just bad software, it’s as if they wrote up an inventory of what makes software good and then decided for each and every entry in the list to implement the exact opposite in their app and service design."
AI-"enhanced" tools are making surgeons worse. Part of me thinks this is all part of the plan, given the Silicon Valley billionaire freaks legit seem to want most of us to die.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
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