Hey MDK deserves another one.

Honestly speaking I see a future where people like us are left out of an integral part of the economy.

I’m chuckling as I imagine there’s got to be a thinly veiled lemmy.gov instance out there in some way shape or form lol

Bingo. If anything what you’re finding is the people bitching are the same people that if given a bike wouldn’t know how to ride it, which is fair. Some people understand quicker how to use the tools they are given.

Edit - a poor carpenter blames his tools.

To this point. As soon as you use technology you have no privacy and if you think you do you’re an idiot. There is no such thing as privacy in a digital world. There never was.

As soon as you understand that you can shift your focus to what you want of yourself out there if you don’t want it known don’t say it just like if I was in a room full of people. As soon as technology is involved that’s the room full of people.

I am amazed that people struggle with this or refuse to acknowledge it

I’d also argue it’s not necessarily a bad thing. If you’re talking shit be sure you’re able to back it up. I am naturally contrarian but in many cases it’s less about what I feel and more about taking the side of the voice that is missing.

A beautiful word that is exactly what people think it is.

Photopea. Why bother with paint or a download when it’s all in a browser and Photoshop lol

Tangential but was at the hospital for an Endo appointment with my son and chuckled in our waiting room “I bet there’s an old white guy in a suit right now going ‘but what if we made these waiting rooms smaller?’”

Note. Room was already small.

My sense is orgs are correcting now from the over-hiring they did a few years ago. Our InfoSec department blew up over the last 5 years as did many corporations but the problem is in the boom you had, for lack of a better way to put it, a lot of morons snuck in under the auspices of “I took a course I’m a security engineer!”

Now corporations are moving on to risk mitigation which is a completely different skillset.

But how will corporations like Disney survive without copywrites?! Won’t someone think about the poor corporations?!

/s

I have a bunch in my house. It’s a glorified radio all I use it for is:

• Set timer for x minute
• What time is it
• Ask CBC to play radio one Toronto
• What is the weather today

For the convenience I accept the mining they may do.

Fuck now I want a smoke!

Oh the same bullshit is done here with Loblaws. I don’t care. They have my info every time I use my credit card at their store that’s all they need and it’s all they get.

If I have to pay more because they’re greedy little fuckpigs so be it.

My GF laughs because I have no loyalty cards or apps and I laugh that she has one for everything.

Loyalty rewards are bullshit.

*wave hands*

As a white middle aged man my privilege is everywhere. The problem is the people that don’t see it everywhere. The world is run by my peers to this day and yet you have some of my spineless peers screaming bloody murder because black people should be offered the same odds getting a job if they’re qualified.

My GF is a student at the university of TikTok whereas I am very much about traditional media. It’s interesting seeing where both succeed and both fail.

That said, you hit the nail on the head. A video on TikTok about some conspiracy bullshit is no different than seeing Bat Boy on the Weekly World News. The problem to me is not just the increased accessibility of this bullshit but the echo chamber around them that keep you engaged.

Trust but verify should be in everyone lexicon.

The problem is education. It’s a fools game to try and control human nature which is the commodification of all and you will always have commercials and propaganda

What is in our means is to strengthen education on how to think critically and understanding your environment. This is where we have failed and I’ll argue there are people actively destroying this for their own gain.

Educated people are dangerous people.

It’s not 1984. It’s Brave New World. Aldous Huxley was right.

I mean in the future it’s a possibility I’ll be fucking Zendaya but that doesn’t mean it’s reality now does it?

History doesn’t repeat. It rhymes.

Buckle in kiddo it’s gonna be a fun couple of decades if we survive it.