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Our future: The AI panopticon
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—posted 17/09/24, tagged as AI futures, surveillance capitalism, billionaires, despotism.
Do you ever find yourself thinking that the billionaire capitalist class, bloated on the extracted value from wage-slaves, say things just to get a rise out of people? You’d be wrong. Something deeply more sinister has intoxicated these immoral exploitative swollen overlords. The act of telling the truth about their agenda. Sadly, rather than this being an opportunity for “the masses” to deploy critique, the hegemonic media quickly shift the subtle messaging in their articles and op eds to support the new sociopathic trend before anyone even realises what is happening. [This morning I shared a link](https://acb.boo/) about Ellison’s new AI panopticon. Literally, a gloves off surveillance capitalism powered by planet killing AI servers to ensure that every. single. worker. is squeezed for juice like an industrial orange juice maker. This “revelation,” enough to make Jeremy Bentham’s preserved head spin [2], saw Oracle co...
OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit company
↗︎ ↳They aren’t ‘profitable’ as-is. Quite the opposite. And of course, the open in OpenAI stands for open to cash money, not open technology. —added 6:52am on 17/09/24 ❧
From September 16, 2024:
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On burnout
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—posted 16/09/24, tagged as work, burnout, capitalism, exploitation.
Today I have been contemplating burnout. Workers under contemporary *fast* capitalism are, like machines, left on piles of scrap amidst declining or decimated mental health and physical health – their only solace, that they briefly increased the stock price of their company. The intemperate nature of capitalist “reimagining” requires us to constantly reconfigure, redeploy, transmute, terraform, juxtapose, and so on regardless of our “job title”. I mean this in the sense that wave after wave of *fast atmospheric shifts* hit workers, demanding change, conformity, complicity and acceptance of new undermining and destabilising conditions in the system, just for us to subsist. Here is one of the most essential contradictions for workers under capitalism: consent is required for participation in wage-slavery, wage-slavery is required for capitalism, capitalism is indifferent to which wage-slave offers their consent, consent i...
PwC to start tracking working locations of all UK employees
↗︎ ↳The consulting firms like PwC, Deloitte, and so on are often the progenitors of intensification of micromanagement - I’m surprised this wasn’t already happening. —added 6:31am on 16/09/24 ❧
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