The world cup has been a huge boon to AI surveillance.
The World Cup does not create the surveillance state — but it has become one of the most efficient mechanisms for funding, deploying, legitimizing, and permanently embedding it across the globe, one tournament at a time.
Yes, I agree.
The word Vegan has connotations apparently for people, but hopefully respect for animal life is a good talking point to open the dialog about what you believe in.
There is a whole lot of benefits for the world if you can get people to even move the needle to a more plant based diet.
Yeah, it’s true. I wouldn’t join a football discussion and just start swaggering around with accusation. It’s a comment I made here, because it was a bit more appropriate.
Since we are talking about it:
In the US, the world cup was used to get 365 million dollars spent on permanent surveillance and facial recognition devices installed. The four main vendors planned on this all along, using AI and leaving it up. Nobody has disclosed what they are going to do with the data, the fans willingly gave up facial recognition for ID which will continue at major arenas because now it is in place.
Mexico and Canada are also doing this. The list of upcoming hosts are planning on doing this. They are using the World Cup as a “global showcase” to normalize battlefield-tested surveillance in civilian spaces.
FIFA is the platform to get global AI surveillance into place, to get contracts to large corporations, and to monitor and build databaes of citizens. The best part? It’s almost always the same corporations, how easy it is to go global!
The amount of waved reviews is staggering. Just roll it out now worry about consequences later.
The World Cup does not create the surveillance state — but it has become one of the most efficient mechanisms for funding, deploying, legitimizing, and permanently embedding it across the globe, one tournament at a time.
Does that help explain why I am a little bit irritated about this subject?
No, the people aren’t the villians. The fans aren’t the villains, they just support it. If anything they too are the victims.
It sucks.
Given that fifa is a non profit, its not the money going to them. It’s the contracts, backroom deals, corporate favors, government favors, etc. Look into the whole scheme and its bonkers how far a reach a non profit has, how many billionaires are involved in various ways, governments as well. Its a front to a huge exchange of weath and influence disguised as a charity.
If you want to complain and call me a slaver because I buy clothes feel free, I don’t care. If me and a thousand friends got together to funnel money into a business that did that “for fun” yeah maybe I would deserve it.
Abuse? Lol abuse?
Really?
I made my case, I stand by it. All the grift and power gained by these events is just another one on the pile, and if only hurt the individual I wouldn’t care.
No, they do not get a pass for contributing to making everything worse, in a huge way, when they could simply not.
Its not a little worse. It is a LOT worse. Its not a distraction, its a freaking denial. Its like a late stage alcoholic that figures drinking is fine because it makes them feel a little better.
There are a million things to do that are distractions, this is no excuse. This is like watching your house on fire and helping pour on the petrol, because for a while, that is fun.
One and two are totally different games. And are amazing.
3 is probably my favorite (but only because it is first person), new Vegas is ok.
4 is where mediocre shows up and 76 is where it just doesn’t matter anymore.
The tv show is fun though.
Its more like an exasperation. It doesn’t matter what I say here really. But I have to acknowledge it.
It’s just a sign of the times. Here you have a sport that nearly anyone can play. For a lot of people locally it can bring community together, gives people something to do and rally behind.
But the “circus” part of my statement is so on the nose: A non profit “charity” leveraging pay to play tactics to funnel money and power around an elite group of billionaires and corporations. Corruption, bribery, and even racism all are part of the politics of this sport. The whole reason why it is mentioned here. A way for Trump to call out to his maga base by showing them who is in charge, he can even reign in Fifa. Of course we get the obligatory statement from FIFA: “Football must never become a playground for political power.”, which is just more nonsense, because that is all it is.
Anyways, I am sure everyone knows that, but why support it? Cheering on the games, watching them, going to them, only continues to enrich the commercial interests who then use that money to leverage political gain and more power.
I just don’t get it: people are willing to make their lives worse and literally pay for that privilege, what else can I say?
I am not sure whats to improve, it is just a situation where it is easy if you know how.
As for the iphone, the amount of trouble that process has caused me is not trivial. Things are not the same! I would put it as more complicated. People are just used to dealing with it. Part of the issue with the iphone is applications and Icloud crap.
That seems like a completely different issue, if you just want a clone then clonezilla, which is also easy.
Isn’t everything in dot files in home? Create package lists and export them, add dot files.
Or keep home on a seperate partition or drive.
New installation, import package list.
This seems straight forward to me.
So contributing to the problem is ok as long as its fun. Got it.
Didn’t see that coming. Razer products are just garbage and have extremely annoying drivers in windows. What could they possibly bring to the table for linux?
As long as the rich get richer who cares right? Watch men chase the ball, its a good circus.
Ruling at the Supreme court: President gets to hire and fire at will for all agencies - except the Fed because even supreme court justices say “dont fuck with my bank account”
So you might as well add Crony Socialism as there is now no over-sight while the government literally owns shares and has interests in: Intel, 26 mining companies, US Steel, Westinghouse, a Zinc refinery, a laser corporation, and is talking about adding Lockheed Martin and OpenAI.
Huge profits to be made! People to appoint! Wheels to grease!
And if the companies fail? Well since the public now owns parts of them, guess who is going to bail them out.
I wish they would get the rest of Clementine transferred over. I still use Clementine, it’s more feature rich.
My experience is not reality? lol what?
Can you show my where this is not the case? I have several games in my library that are no longer for sale on the store because the publisher removed them, yet I can still download and install them.
I am willing to say there probably is an exception to every rule, so go ahead, do you have a library item that no longer can be downloaded?
Ha! Thanks for saying, I figured that one out pretty quick.
I’ll just assume it’s Steve Balmer.
So I can blame apple for emoji popularization. Figures.