Notes 2024-06-19
2024-06-19 19:55![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asher553Technocrat cliques are terrified of losing their power. This goes beyond the Presidency itself, it extends to the technocrats' ability to shape perception and portray conservatives as few and isolated. That's their whole street game, and if they lose that, they lose everything. Illusion of unanimity is destroyed.
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Globalism is the essence of the process of outsourcing moral decision-making. Agency is handed over to bureaucrats and institutions with the power to enrich or impoverish an individual or a community at a keystroke without consequence to themselves. Decision-maker is isolated from the feedback loop.
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I bought a new-old laptop. This was my first time buying a used computer, but it probably won't be my last. I have less and less inclination to keep up with the "latest, greatest" software innovations as the technocrats keep trying to foist more AI on me. I want computing technology that serves me, not technology that compels me to serve it - or to serve its masters hiding behind the scenes. [167]
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Globalism is the essence of the process of outsourcing moral decision-making. Agency is handed over to bureaucrats and institutions with the power to enrich or impoverish an individual or a community at a keystroke without consequence to themselves. Decision-maker is isolated from the feedback loop.
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I bought a new-old laptop. This was my first time buying a used computer, but it probably won't be my last. I have less and less inclination to keep up with the "latest, greatest" software innovations as the technocrats keep trying to foist more AI on me. I want computing technology that serves me, not technology that compels me to serve it - or to serve its masters hiding behind the scenes. [167]
