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markwrecksmysoul · 5 years ago

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Those of you who have followed me from the beginning know that I am a black woman. I occasionally address social issues regarding my people and other poc usually issues within the kpop community or mental health but I feel like this is necessary.

If you’ve been on literally any internet site you know what happened to George floyd and the riots and the protesting. Even in this dark time it really warms my heart to see every person of color, including white people come together and help us fight this. I’ve seen videos of protests happening in JAPAN, cities and countries everywhere. Amish people even came out to protest. Some police departments are even pulling together and protesting with the people.

Thank you! honestly coming together as a community is working! the process is slow but the more we work together the more we break them down!!!!!

Please be aware of looting and as a short side note I respect those who looted corporate businesses that refused to sell milk to tear gassed victims or looted to get their message heard, you have the right intentions in mind.

HOWEVER, If you are looting local businesses just to steal shit and you aren’t trying to help, stop it. we loot big corporations that fund Donald trump and his racist ways or the corporations that defend horrible policemen and the privilege they are shown even when faced with murder charges.

We do not break car windows of random passerby’s. We do not burn down small businesses that people put their life’s saving into! This is discrediting the spirit of protest and it needs to stop. If you are gonna loot for protest, loot a target or a Walmart a place that you know can afford the damages! Don’t hurt the community, hurt the bastards running it!

With that being said, If any of my followers or people viewing this post are planning on attending any protests or looting corporate businesses I want you to be safe and protected. This is just a small list of advice on staying safe and knowing what happens during a protest it might be worse or better for some people! This is what’s happening during some Vegas protests be aware!

- Anyone who threw water bottles was immediately arrested, even if they weren't thrown anywhere near law enforcement

- I saw a guy get arrested just for TOUCHING a traffic cone

- They will arrest you even for just being too close to them - EVEN IF YOU ARE WALKING AWAY. This is what happened to my friends

- If you are able to, white people should try to be at the front as much as possible to help create a barrier

- Park far away and walk. We parked almost a mile away and by the end of the protest, even the street we were parked on was barricaded

- Stick with your group and the rest of the crowd as much as possible. They will target anyone that gets separated

Recognize the secret policemen!!!!

This all I have to say PLEASE PLEASE BE SAFE I’ve heard of cops macing children, people getting mutilated by rubber bullets. I want you all to be okay!

And please wear a mask not only is it a good way to avoid cops identifying you we are still in the middle of a pandemic let us not forget that.

highlights of protestors that I’ve seen so far!

#george floyd #protest #black lives matter #kpop #black people

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blackvelvetsunseteyes · 8 years ago

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Standing up to my boss.

It bothers me when people tell those who are getting seriously mistreated at their work place not to stand up for themselves because “Well what if this screws up your chance at getting a new job?”

I had explained to one of my friends today that I had written a very detailed letter to my old boss of why I as well as many others were so angry at him leading to three of us putting in our two weeks notice at the same time. This letter lead to us sitting down and talking, and that conversation lead to him personally attacking my coworkers and I which ended with me telling him face to face exactly just how screwed up everything he as well as the other owner and the manager he sent to “help” our store did was.

the response I received from this was “What you did was REALLY stupid.” followed up with a list of ways I should have handled it, all stemming around “Well what if this affects you getting jobs in the future?” Here is my problem with this. If everyone just quietly walks away from an abusive job, especially one at this level, nothing ever changes. The owners just continue on with their bullshit assuming they got away with it because no one said anything.

Just to clarify, there were countless things that lead to me telling off my boss, and they weren’t just little things that added up, they were big things and caused huge issues in the work place taking a serious toll on the workers. The situations that lead to fellow workers and I reaching the point we did were as follows:

Left without a manager or supervisor for ten months and were told they “couldn’t afford” promotions so no one within the store could be promoted.

Refused to hire people when we were in serious need of stock guys and sales associates leaving us very short staffed on a constant basis, sometimes only one person running the entire store for hours.

Were told multiple times that they had people ready to hire for management and supervisor positions and just never hired them forcing the keyholders to do the work of management and supervisor for months without the title or the pay.

Repeatedly forced us to fix corporate fuck ups causing us to deal with countless very angry customers because they didn’t want to deal with them, which lead to one of the workers being harassed by a customer to the point where we had to ban them from calling the store, so I personally was getting yelled at by him for telling him he could no longer call the store and talk to her, then she ended up getting on the phone and telling him herself. That’s right, WE, the workers at the store where he was harassing someone had to tell him he could no longer call, NOT corporate.

Had to deal with multiple people from other locations being sent to “help” us because they refused to just promote someone to keyholder so they could close, even though we only had one key holder who could work Wednesdays, which meant we were literally training people from other stores on how to do things in our store so they could do exactly what people who already worked there were perfectly capable of doing.

Were told we were being trained for Manager and keyholder positions that we would FINALLY be getting promoted to, only to find out other people who weren’t even training or qualified were offered the jobs behind our back and then told “You are qualified, it’s just not the right time.” as if we hadn’t been doing the jobs for months already.

Had a manager sent from the other store who was suppose to train us but literally did nothing but talk about her store and fuck up the displays, snap at people repeatedly, steal things from our stock room for her store, and go against our store policies causing us to have countless customer issues that she refused to fix because it was our store not hers.

Were personally verbally attacked on the regular because we spoke up about issues in the store and how we NEEDED things to change, these attacks included the manager from the other store as well as the owners constantly yelling at the keyholders, and the manager personally talking shit about me to my coworkers because I reported her for majorly fucking shit up at the store, causing me to spend an entire shift fixing all her fuck ups. As well as talking shit about my coworker for not finding the time to talk to her in the middle of us fixing all her fuck ups.

Were told that it was totally acceptable for the manager to treat the employees like total shit and do and say whatever the fuck she wanted because “She was a manager” and was told that those who were going to stay for their two weeks needed to shut up and not cause any issue aka not stand up for themselves while being disrespected.

Hired a manager that after three of us put in our two weeks had hired five new people instantly, then proceeded to threaten every one of the sales associates and stock from the old crew telling them they had people there ready to replace them if they didn’t “hold their weight” aka reach a ridiculous sales goal EVERY shift they worked (it was a furniture store, so many days were completely dead)

Within a matter of two days from being hired the new manager left the doors unlocks overnight (the store also had a starbucks inside meaning someone could have robbed both the furniture store and the starbucks,) had three citations from the mall, and multiple of her customers calling in with complaints, yet somehow the girl was not fired or disciplined, and continued to treat the employees like shit.

Workers at other stores were being told that the company was “Cleaning house” basically implying that the three of us that had quit were actually fired, using us as a way to make people think that they could be next.

Promoted one of the new hires to key holder who in no way or form was qualified (She has the attention span of a gnat and showed up to work in a crop top for training.) And the girl ended up kicking an employee out of the store because the employee told her that she filled out a form wrong and was trying to help her do it properly so she wouldn’t get in trouble. The new manager agreed with what she did, and when the girl who was kicked out put in her two weeks notice, she was given zero hours for those weeks, even though everyone else who put in their two weeks was given hours for both weeks.

The new manager showed up to work hung over smelling of alcohol and threw up in the bathroom then proceeded to pretend to have a cold claiming that was why she was throwing up, forcing a key holder to come in on her day off and cover her shift. This was an evening shift that she was working. The same manager will constantly refuse shift changes or days off to people, but then ask them to cover her shifts trying to guilt trip them into doing it, and even gave herself a holiday (New Years Day) off without even asking if the other keyholders had plans that night. She also told one of the new girls that she could not call out due to an emergency with her child telling her that if she did she would be written up. Once again, she did not get fired or disciplined in any way and continues treating the employees like shit, including lying about one of the starbucks workers (They have their own managers that are completely separate from the furniture store, but are under the same owner) claiming he was giving old employees free drinks, even though those employees had paid.

Since the new manager was hired they have had 7 people quit within less than a month, two new hires included due to employee severe mistreatment in the workplace.

Now this is just the bigger stuff, there is a ton of smaller stuff that over time also lead to serious issues. So combining those with all of the above, no, I was not just going to quietly leave and not stand up for my coworkers (now friends) and I, because honestly that is total bullshit. Why the hell should I have to feel that I have to stay silent and hope that karma gets them in the long run when they have done nothing but be abusive time and time again to us? WHy are we being made to feel that we can’t have a voice?

Can speaking up to my boss like i did affect who hires me in the future? Yeah. Do I regret standing up for what is right? Hell no! As far as I’m concerned, if someone doesn’t hire me without giving me the chance to explain why i stood up to my boss, those are not the type of people I want to be working for.

#retail hell #telling off my boss #standing up for myself #standing up for my coworkers #taking a stand

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trendingnewsb · 7 years ago

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5 Real World Problems That Are Straight Out Of Black Mirror

The future! Rocket ships, lasers, robots — it is truly a far-flung, fantastical place. Except, uh … we have all those things right now, and have for some time. The future isn’t some vague, to-be-determined period of existence; it’s literally tomorrow. So today, humanity has to address issues that would have been inconceivable a few paltry years ago. And frankly, some of this stuff still kind of sounds like someone got stoned and then tried to pitch a Black Mirror episode.

Fitbits Are Giving Away Military Intelligence

Nowadays it’s routine for people to wear a fitness tracker, but by allowing our data to be shared, we’re also allowing our habits to be shared. That normally shouldn’t be problematic, unless your spouse is learning that your weekly jog takes you straight to the strip club … or you’re exercising on a classified military installation.

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Thanks to a map that shows the jogging habits of the 27 million people who use Fitbits and the like, we can see splotches of activity in otherwise dark areas, like Iraq and Syria. Some of those splotches are known American military sites full of exercising soldiers, and some, by extrapolation, are sites that the military would rather keep unknown. One journalist saw a lot of exercise activity on a Somalian beach that was suspected to be home to a CIA base. Someone else spotted a suspected missile site in Yemen, and a web of bases in Afghanistan were also revealed.

StravaYet another example of why we at Cracked continue to condemn exercise in all its forms.

By analyzing the data, you could theoretically figure out patrol and supply convoy routes, and make educated guesses as to where on these bases soldiers eat, sleep, etc. That’s a lot of useful information for someone planning an attack. You could also track individuals, potentially important ones. One researcher claimed they tracked a French soldier’s entire overseas deployment and subsequent return home.

This wasn’t an evil ploy by a terrorist cell in league with Big Fitness; you can turn that data tracking off. It’s just that no one even thought about it until someone finally pointed out that it was a huge security issue. American rules for fitness trackers in the military are now being “refined,” which we assume is PR speak for “Goddammit, turn that shit off.” But it’s only a matter of time until another seemingly innocuous technology accidentally gives away state secrets.

Space Commercialization Might Contaminate Planets

Elon Musk set a new precedent when he launched a car into space, and not only for tacky egotism. The rules about what corporations can and can’t do in space are essentially nonexistent, because the government’s authority ends somewhere around the thermosphere. Governments, however, have legal responsibilities listed in the Outer Space Treaty — one of the few things America and the Soviet Union agreed on. Most of the world has signed as well, and in addition to promising not to put nukes on the Moon or claim all of Jupiter for the proud people of Denmark, adherents agree not to send Earth germs to other planets like the interplanetary version of coughing on the guy next to you at the movie theater.

That sounds a bit silly, but there’s a real point: If Earth microbes accidentally end up on other planets and moons, it becomes impossible for scientists to tell if their “discovery” of life on Io is native, or if it originated from someone sneezing in a Tesla factory. So NASA and other government space agencies follow a strict anti-contamination protocol. American Mars rovers, for example, had all of their parts heated to 230 degrees before launch, and they are routinely sterilized with alcohol. Even if your mission is only to orbit a planet (or swing by one), you have to prove that the odds of an accidental crash landing are equivalent to that of winning a fair-sized lottery.

Kim Shiflett/NASA“Like, Powerball odds. No Pick 3 crap.”

In theory, governments are also responsible for ensuring that any corporations within their borders follow the same rules. But once you move beyond launching satellites into Earth’s orbit, the government’s ability to enforce the law is about equal to your ability to enforce a responsible bedtime on yourself. Maybe that flying Tesla was carefully sterilized, or maybe Musk went out of his way to fart it up before launch. We don’t know. And as more and more corporations talk about going to the Moon and Mars, we may have a germ problem.

There’s also the issue of debris. While we like to think of space as a pristine void, the Solar System is starting to resemble a freshman’s dorm room. Space missions are supposed to be as clean as possible, and a mission to another planet should either purposely burn up in the atmosphere or land when it’s done. Musk’s car was heading toward Mars, where plans for it were sort of a vague shrug. It could have eventually broken up and left debris around the planet, or it could have infected the surface. But instead, it went off-course toward the asteroid belt … where it could also very well hit something and break up. Worst-case scenario, we end up with a bunch of junk floating around that could take out a future mission. Even if his car never hits anything, Musk still broke bold new ground in space litter.

Moderators Have To Watch All The Heinous Garbage That Gets Posted On Social Media

Try to imagine the worst job possible. Sewage sampler? Elephant masturbator? How about social media moderator? It sounds like a joke at first: “Facebook has moderators? Then explain all the crap I see every day!” Then you learn that their job is mostly to filter out pornography, and it sounds awesome. Aren’t you supposed to get paid to do what you love?

But then you learn about the truly awful shit that moderators see as they cruise through a thousand flagged posts an hour, and you want to give them all hugs and raises. Child pornography, bestiality, hate speech, extreme violence … if you can imagine something awful, someone has put it online. Specific examples included a man’s testicles getting crushed, a boy getting his legs mangled by a truck, someone getting hit by a train, a man shooting himself in the head, suicide bombings, a man hurting and possibly killing small birds by having sex with them, and a woman whose body had been blown in two. Imagine dealing with images like that for 40 hours a week. It’s like playing roulette, except the closest you get to winning are shots of consenting genitals smashing together.

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Imagine being forced to watch Logan Paul videos and considering that a good day.

Over 100,000 people trawl through e-trash to keep Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other major sites (relatively) safe to use. And you can’t click away the moment you can tell a video is getting nasty — you have to verify that the content is real, and learn as much as possible so you can try to destroy it at its source. And while you will become somewhat numb, dealing with the worst of what humanity has to offer day after day can haunt you. Turnover is high, and there are few resources for moderators who need counseling. Which, shit, has to be all of them, right?

Facebook’s Fake News Problem Is A Feature, Not A Bug

Despite the fact that you probably took at least one break from reading this to check your Facebook feed, we still think of the site primarily as a vehicle for vacation photos where the worst thing that could happen is getting into a bitter argument with some friends about how to pronounce “GIF.” We’re all too smart to get suckered into politics, right?

But Facebook’s politics come after you. Ten million users saw “Russian-linked” ads placed during the 2016 election, mostly focused on big, controversial issues like immigration and gun control. Facebook also admitted that they placed about $100,000 in ads from “inauthentic accounts.” The issue isn’t ads spamming “Vote for Clinton / Trump / X’algax, Destroyer of Souls!” Everyone already saw those a million times; they’d sway no one. The problem is that they spread stories like “FBI AGENT SUSPECTED IN HILLARY EMAIL LEAKS FOUND DEAD IN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE,” which linked to a fake newspaper, quoting a man that doesn’t exist, who lives in a town that doesn’t exist (they spelled the town’s name wrong).

The Denver PostAt this point, we’re starting to doubt the existence of Denver too.

If you see that stuff in your feed, wedged in between a cat video and your friend’s new spaghetti sauce recipe, you don’t click through to verify it. So it weasels into your brain as something you vaguely remember that may or may not be true.

Facebook has also become a playground for trolls, regardless of whether they have a political agenda or just want to watch the e-world burn. If you can think back to the Las Vegas shooting (before all those other shootings removed it from the headlines), a slew of hoaxes spread from the moment the news broke. Some people invented fake dead and missing victims solely to see how many likes they could get. Others claimed that the shooter was still active, invented fake perpetrators, assigned nonexistent motivations to the shooter, or claimed that he was a Democrat, a left-wing activist, or a recent convert to Islam (in reality, if the shooter had any political motives, he took them to his grave).

It’s the cruelest and most devious form of misinformation, because it’s hard to keep your bullshit detector functioning when you’re in shock. Maybe some of those moderators could get a well-deserved break from the animal torture to focus on this crap instead?

Someone Could Steal Your Face And Make Porn

We have the technology to swap someone’s face onto someone else’s face in a video. That’s fun if we’re putting Nicholas Cage into Raiders Of The Lost Ark …

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… but it’s a problem if someone is making it appear that a person said or did something they didn’t really do. And that problem gains an extra level of creepiness when someone’s face is slapped into a porn video. All it takes is some training, some raw footage of the subject, and a few spare hours. And if you’re the sort of person inclined to make fake porn, you’ve probably got a lot of time on your hand.

Reddit had an entire community dedicated to this “hobby,” until it was shut down, but that only made enthusiasts migrate elsewhere. Called “deepfakes,” after the Reddit user who pioneered the practice, they started editing the faces of celebrities onto preexisting porn. Some of the fakes ended up on porn sites being pitched to viewers as real, because porn is now a genre of fake news.

While it’s unlikely that anyone would believe Taylor Swift was suddenly so hard up for money that she appeared on FuckBrothers.biz, it’s still an ethically off-putting mess. It’s not limited to the living. Someone made a video “starring” a young Carrie Fisher. And it’s not limited to celebrities, either. Anyone armed with a scraper can pull photos from Facebook and Instagram, combine them with any of several search engines that look for porn stars by facial recognition, and make a fairly convincing video of anyone doing pretty much anything. Reddit users were making videos of their friends, co-workers, classmates, and exes. They were “only” for private use, but what happens when someone wants to manufacture revenge porn? So there you go: We’re reaching a point in history where we can’t even trust our pornography. And then what’s left to believe in?

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mirceakitsune · 8 years ago

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Biggest internet censorship scheme ever attempted (Digital Economy Bill)

I believe at this very hour, I'm finally able to gather my thoughts on certain matters enough to write a coherent journal about them. Something I wouldn't have been able to do during the rest of the day, after having come across the shit I was about to witness. As usual I will be cross-posting this on all of my profiles, in hopes that people will be able to offer some insight that might snap me back to sanity.

So as my watchers know, I frequently make journals discussing emerging threats against online freedom, namely when big censorship initiatives are launched by governments and corporations. I broadly discussed SOPA around 5 years ago when it almost happened, I talked about issues like art being criminalized as a means of gun safety, and more. What I want to discuss today however, makes the famous SOPA / ACTA look like an absolute joke, as they were nothing compared to something that's happening right in our days.

http://theregister.co.uk/2017/01/20/lords_slam_untrammelled_data_sharing_powers_in_digital_economy_bill http://independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/porn-digital-economy-bill-age-verification-law-house-of-commons-parliament-a7445086.html http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/01/digital-economy-bill-govt-seeks-to-bypass-eu-law-with-porn-blocking-filters/ http://edri.org/the-uk-digital-economy-bill-threat-to-free-speech-and-privacy/

Meet the only legal initiative in a democracy capable of rivaling China's internet censorship system: The UK's Digital Economy Bill. This piece of dystopian science fiction brought to life, which literally feels like reading a news terminal in a game of DeusEx, is a plan to censor the internet unlike anything we've seen here in Europe and America. I'm not even sure where I can begin with it, but I guess the starting point would be as follows:

The UK government wants complete control over what kinds of websites its citizens may visit. ISP's will be forced to block any website in the world that's deemed bad by the regime, including all overseas websites that don't obey to its new program (Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc). Now I know what you might be thinking: "Yeah, we know... copyright and all that". Nope... this is not about copyright at all! Hold on to your computer chairs, because here comes the real reason behind this entire madness: Porn. Yep... the biggest censorship scheme ever seen in the occident is about to unfold for the purpose of blocking god damn internet porn! There will be two categories: Porn deemed indecent by the state, which is to be blocked for all citizens... as well as any kind of porn, which is to be blocked exclusively to the mentally apartheid (also known as "everyone under the age of 18"). An institution that handles ratings for DVD's will be given the responsibility of being the 21th century's religious police, deciding what kind of media is moral and who should be arrested for watching heretic content... similarly to China which has an institution tasked with video game and film censorship, in case something might be bothering the CCP and spreading occidental values.

Before I continue with this trainwreck, there are a few things I want to clarify regarding my stance: First I know that certain people out there want to say "Aaaahaha you're pissed that the government might be banning the sick porn you watch, serves you right". If by any chance someone reading this journal is one of those idiots, though even I doubt it, I'm complaining about the idea the approach and the precedent being created. I couldn't care less whether it's about porn or anything else... and by the way the law also contains much of SOPA, such as criminalizing websites that even talk about copyright infringement in a manner deemed as "aiding the enemy" (such as speaking about links or IP addresses). What's happening is a variety of abuses:

1. A gruesome attack on people's freedoms and liberties in general.

2. An unprecedented attempt at internet control and censorship over the last two decades, as far as any country considered the 1st world goes.

3. A call for going back to the medieval age, relatable to when people were arrested and chained for allegedly promoting ideas deemed ungodly by the religious police.

4. Bone-chilling ignorance and lack of understanding of how the internet works, and what side effects this initiative might have worldwide.

5. Shocking ignorance about the importance of privacy and data security on the internet, granted they want some sort of internet-wide age verification system.

6. What strongly looks like the imposition of a fanatical purist ideology. I'll take the liberty of comparing this to the Chinese cultural revolution, when books promoting undesired ideas were burnt and artists dragged away in chains. Once again, using porn as an excuse makes absolutely zero difference in this regard, grow out of your bubble if this is how dense you are!

7. All of the above is for an absolutely ridiculous reason, which makes it all the more hallucinating: Banning god damn porn on the internet... in year 2017 when no sane person gives a shit about this sort of thing! If a parent still cares about this crap, they can easily install censorship software on their kids device or request the service from their ISP... what the hell? It's as if a bunch of people were teleported from the victorian age, seized control of the state, and are about to bring back the papal government and the guillotine because no one's yet told them that times have changed and that would be stupid.

Now no, I'm not from the UK myself. If I was British, granted multiple things that are happening there right now... either I'd have fled the country and would be sleeping on the streets of a civilized EU city where I'd feel safe, either I'd be floating in a river with a note attached to my neck, either I'd be on the 6 o'clock news for opening fire on the government building and the Tories infesting it (the least likely of options). I will never the less offer condolences to everyone who lives there... because the fascism taking place back there is worthy of such, and I'm legitimately sorry for everyone there who has to deal with these psychopaths. Never the less, I too have reasons to be concerned about some things, as do all of us:

1. This is all happening in a place that was (and technically still is) part of the European Union, which is supposedly the 2nd beacon of democracy alongside America. This madness hasn't started in Africa or South Korea or the Philippines or some other developing country, where the news would be less of shock: The UK is considered a developed country and a world leader, like France or Germany or the US! If a world leading country threatens to take down a whole portion of the internet and endorse identity theft, literally over a fit of medieval rage... who's to say other governments won't lose their minds and start doing god knows what? This is a fail for humanity and progress as a whole, which in and of itself is despicable.

2. What they're doing may affect websites worldwide, not just those in the UK! Any site that has NSFW material can be demanded to adhere to their moral code and steal people's ID, otherwise it may be banned in the UK altogether. Places like Furaffinity for instance will either have to censor new types of art deemed immoral by the Tory cult, or the website will be blocked by the Great Firewall of the UK... in which case I hope it's the later, as much as I feel horrible for any UK furs who will wake up to find it and other art websites gone one morning.

3. Several groups I'm part of are targeted and affected. And no I don't feel that this applies just to things that may be considered of sexual nature: It can at face value, but in the long run it extends to more. Ideology filtering comes to mind, in terms of what might follow next... just thinking about the people who must have proposed such a thing makes the "A Brick in the Wall" music video pop to mind.

There was more I felt like going into, but I figure this is enough for one journal. Ironically I found out about the whole thing while searching for something comparatively less bad: I was looking at how US authorities now want to demand passwords for phones and social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, etc) for non-citizens entering the country... another hallucinating violation of people's privacy, which I didn't even believe could be real until recently. I was actually going to complain about that instead, but after what I heard about the UK I realized that's nothing in comparison.

All I can add is that, I'm extremely worried about the future in general: A world just like the dark scifi movies is coming... where armed troop sit at every corner and point a rifle to your head as you walk by, cameras are on every pole and you're just waiting for a system error to cause a turret to shoot at you, whereas the internet is centralized through one institution and you need a pass from the government to even use it. The city we see in the beginning of Half-Life 2 (less for the aliens roaming the place) will probably be a reality soon... and if it will, it will likely start in the UK. Oh... and if I had the power to register extremist groups responsible for spreading terror among people, believe me the Tories would be officially on it right now.

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trendingnewsb · 7 years ago

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5 Real World Problems That Are Straight Out Of Black Mirror

Fitbits Are Giving Away Military Intelligence