Uncle Ted is being proved correct in his assessment day after day after day. Too bad that the normies in the article wont' ever look at the world through Uncle Ted's nor through Ellul's eyes, they're too intellectually limited (to not use the word "stupid") for that. Too bad, had they known they could have turned their lives for the better earlier on.

Same here, and I'm generally very skeptical when it comes to AI. It's just that ChatGPT can provide better/more accurate answers, Google seems to have lost the plot. I still use google search when it comes to appending "wiki/wikipedia" to it, i.e. when I use google search just as a redirect to a wikipedia page.

In essence I agree with that, it's just that cyber-security has particularly been the focus of recent military discourse.

Just yesterday I was reading an article here in the Romanian mainstream media about how Constanta Port's (our biggest port at the Black Sea) IT infrastructure has been under constant cyber attacks (presumably by the Russians) so as to hinder the export of Ukrainian grains through it. And this is just one of the many such (relatively) recent examples.

> securing cyberspace,

which has clear military implications, at least in today's age.

Happened to a person close to me a few months ago and, indeed, it has become uncannily realistic. I'm surprised it hasn't attracted the attention of the relevant authorities, because harmless people are now being scammed of their live savings (or worse, in the case of the person close to me she had actually borrowed the sum she was scammed of) and no-one seems to be doing anything. It's also highly regressive, as in it seems to affect the people that would most need that money (in a way it's similar to how gambling affects the lower classes a lot more compared to the wealthy).

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People will just flood to places that are not official and where they'll be able to express their views freely. That's how these things have always turned out to be.

In other words, let's say that I'll get banned from the likes of FB or IG as a result of me trespassing my government's ideological wishes, well, tough luck for FB and IG (and fuck them while I'm at it), I'll just make an account on a platform that won't abide by EU/Romanian (I'm Romanian myself) propaganda, where I'll still be able to share views with people thinking similar thoughts to what I think.

I'm wondering what the Alphabet employees still commenting on this forum have to say about it? I guess for the right comps they can keep their mouths shut no matter the high level of idiocy involved.

The same thing is happening on one of my Blogger instances, the one where I publish about a very niche interest (old floor-mill buildings from the Romanian countryside). Most of the hits are coming from countries like Vietnam and Singapore, most of them associated with Android use, so I think it's a new-ish thing that Google Analytics' anti-bot/anti-spam algorithm just can't (won't?) catch.

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The Davos ghouls are proven right each and every day:

> You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy

Back to indentured servitude we go, where by "we" I mean us, the poors, not the wealthy, nor their relatively still well-off direct servants (like many of the users here working for Big Tech).

Based PM, from one of your neighbors just North of the Danube.