The Doctor

Low hundreds of billions?

They sure make the task of keeping an eye on the chuds easier. Their OPSEC eats donkey ass.

Why would they hide anymore? They figure they won. No sense in not taking advantage of everything that implies.

JFC

The Great Game continues, same as it always has.

The true final exam would be writing code on an airgapped system.

This is endgame. The folks on top decided that there’s no point in being surreptitious anymore and they’re acting openly, because who can do anything about it?

“About to?”

We’ve been watching journalism die in realtime over the last decade. Jeff Bezos discarding all pretense the other day was just the latest in a long line of failures.

I keep waiting for them to start sending legbreakers to seize those record. They’ve had $10kus bounties in place on people who’ve had abortions since 2021, and now trans folks, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to push it a little bit farther.

The downside of that would be that the techbros who think Snow Crash is a how-to manual will never stop jizzing themselves.

“None” is the correct answer.

Not one that editors will let through, no. Remember, most news articles are written for a roughly sixth grade reading level.

Thank you - I’ve added them to my list.

You missed the point.

That’s great, I didn’t say you were. I was speaking specifically about people who, on the one hand lamented the risks of smart TVs, but on the other hand didn’t realize that they would just be plugging their existing digital cable STB’s HDMI cable into what amounts to a very large flat panel display.

The best way is to use comms channels that avoid their Windows install entirely. If Recall never sees it, it never gets recorded.

From trying to get people to do that (with no success), it’s because it seems too much like work. Folks want something they can plug in and go… but plugging in one extra thing is just a bridge too far these days. It’s frustrating as shit.

Can you tell us some of the things to search for so we can find those?

It’ll just be delayed. They want their human sacrifice.

Literally remember people saying they didn’t vote for Clinton in 2016 because she didn’t pay attention to their state. That was their excuse anyways.

The frightening thing is, that’s the best you can hope for. Anything else is a pleasant surprise.