While every1 and their grandmother are talking about it, I could not resist a few words: the capture of the American serial killer using commercial genomic evidence is rather chilling. It is an e.g. of how much potential there is for the police state to take control of our life
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Replying to @blog_supplement
genomic evidence and biometric identification mashed up with plastic money trace, and further mashed up with social media footprint... society has / will evolve from co-operation to coercion.
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Replying to @db_is_db
the road to a kind of totalitarianism like never before lies ahead and those who are going to be in the drivers seat will do it saying they are helping you even as the English spoke of the civilizing burden of the white man to the chorus of accepting sepoys
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Replying to @blog_supplement @db_is_db
Let's step outside of particular political traditions for a bit. I don't see how else the torrent of social media information interfacing with facial recognition and ubiquitous surveillance cameras can end up in any different state in the long term - in ANY functional state
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Replying to @blog_supplement @db_is_db
China, and Europe are both full of surveillance cameras, US increasingly. All information will soon be flatly accessible by authorities. Knowing what we know about bureaucratic systems, how is any supraorganism like a state to resist 'totalitarianism' ?
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desha is only behind due to technological backwardness, not for lack of trying.
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What I'm getting at is to that forgetting ideology, the temptations of all organisms that own a territory (such as a state), is to be 'totalitarian' if the tools allow it to do so.
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on that tendency working out the genetic conflicts of the players within a state which is genetically diverse will be of interest
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Deep state in mlechchaland is deeply at war with itself - such a civil war is embedded in its entropic structure. State department supplies aid to TSP ally Talibs while Pentagon soldiers battle the Talibs. There's no smooth resolution to successful totalitarianism
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