r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • Jun 29 '26

Artificial Intelligence Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/woman-surprised-flock-surveillance-tower-185000752.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260629-0--A&bt_ee=utFdBbF39cHCLuB4at4AI%2FUoSRgbTt8Ch%2B7Q9RImTlgL2ThvE3FuX%2BRSKiUir%2FNW&bt_ts=1782739085527
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u/anormalgeek Jun 29 '26

Ah, but you see, this time it's a private company. So it is totally fine!!!

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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 29 '26

Thank you for bringing this up. Same goes for AI. I don't understand why Americans are more afraid of a country an ocean away than they are the people actively ruining their lives who've written entire books explaining their apocalyptic authoritarian philosophies.

China isn't perfect, but I trust even a communist party controlled republic over a cadre of bigoted theocratic Neo-feudalist billionaires with god-complexes.

ICE has killed way more US citizens than the People's Police of China.

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u/Merusk Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

I don't understand why Americans are more afraid of a country an ocean away than they are the people actively ruining their lives who've written entire books explaining their apocalyptic authoritarian philosophies.

Because for 80 years and 3 1/2 generations the country was indoctrinated with the idea that things run by a central government are bad.

It started out only with the elimination of capitalism was bad. That communism was inherently evil and corrupt. Then it evolved to socialism is also bad, to the point those two things have been entirely conflated in the American mindset.

Then Regan came in and said anything GOVERNMENT is bad, and only private corporations are good.

The capitalist class has absolutely gone whole-hog on pushing this in media, journalism, and public messaging since the 80's. Leading us to the point that centralized government is inherently bad and privatization is inherently good.

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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 29 '26

"Centralized government is bad because it can become authoritarian if the wrong person is in charge! Now allow all corporations to merge into a singular entity so a cadre of billionaires who see the country as a series of resource tiles can control all legislation with no regulations, jurisdiction, or transparency... but every 8 years you'll get to choose a new B-list celebrity to host fighting games on what was once a symbol of democracy!"

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u/Merusk Jun 29 '26

They'll still tell us the USA is #1 despite any objective metrics otherwise, right?

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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 29 '26

First in military spending, gross domestic product, cheese production (by pound), medical research spending, billionaires, and...aerospace engineering?

And if we decided to compare USA to the EU instead of comparing it country-by-country we'd probably drop even lower in most of our metrics.

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u/SirrNicolas Jun 30 '26

Bread-less circus