#surveillance industry

[kittyit]

post-entertainment society

[gwllabs]

It’s difficult to talk about technology without also addressing cybersecurity – the two are closely linked since a majority of devices, systems and solutions that people use as part of their personal and business lives are network connected devices.

[opendirectories]

[elbiotipo]

The most absurd thing about all this bullshit is that all my data is going towards selling me things I don't want or I can't buy. Tech companies have built the world's most sophisticated and complex surveillance system, effectively trapping billions of people into a panopticon and consuming wasteful amounts of resources, technology and human work and talent, all just to sell ads. It's incredibly absurd.

[zigcarnivorous]

Hello, 👋

I hope you're well.

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Thank you sincerely. 🌹

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The only way to be sure someone helps is by helping :)

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I am sorry this world is cruel and stupid. I am sorry you must implore petulant strangers on a cheap web site for relief. Many citizens of the empirical core believe themselves to be benevolent, good people yet have a wicked greedy little heart that only has love for themselves. These are people who complain about the price of gas to a person with a photo of their bombed, burnt car on their wall, man! PLEASE😭

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[disease]

CLOSED CIRCUIT | CD, 1994 ELECTRONIC EYE (RICHARD H. KIRK)

[counterintelligenceprogram]

Identities of Counterintelligence Agents Leaked!

You thought all those annoying shitposts on the internet were Russian bots, but you were wrong! They were counterintelligence agents! We have photographic proof of their identities!

[emptyanddark]

Industrial methods of worker control were prefigured on plantations, which sought to maximize the labor of enslaved Black people otherwise unmotivated to produce value for those who kept them captive. While the relationship between industrial and plantation worker control is foundational, it is essential to recognize that there is no easy equivalence between the terror-enforced racialized labor regimes of plantation slavery, and industrial labor processes that drew on technologies developed on plantations.5 Plantation management—and the relations of domination that structured the plantation—was anchored in a view of Black people as commodities, as something-not-quite-human. And the conditions of bondage on the plantation defined the category of “unfreedom” against which white workers could be classified as “free.”

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In Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne demonstrates that power over enslaved people was executed through bureaucratic technologies that divided enslaved workers, prescribed their routines and motions, and calibrated their movements with the goal of managing and controlling “every moment of enslaved life.”11 Her work clarifies the interplay between the strict division and quantification of life and labor on plantations, and how such segmentation served to make enslaved people observable to overseers and managers.12 The fragmentation of production, whether in the field or the factory, shifts power away from those doing the work to owners who benefit from defining and overseeing a coherent view of workers and the labor process. Such a view doesn’t emerge on its own. Rather, it is produced through records, metrics, and standardized assessments—and we must understand the term “record keeping” to be a synonym for “surveillance.” Monitoring and quantification of work and workers was the first, and arguably most important, step in populating plantation records. And these records’ demands for data and information in turn shaped how labor was divided and managed, in service of making work and workers as visible and quantifiable as possible.

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Iskander illuminates how designations of skill—and the power that capital claims to define what is and is not “skilled”—work to produce and naturalize conditions of bondage, creating a hierarchy of “deservedness” that justifies conditions of precarity and domination for the “unskilled.”20 The concept of skill is also racialized. In a “free” labor context, “skill” is narrated as something (white) workers possess and serves as an index of the wages a worker can deduct from the profits desired by capitalists—a sum they can, in theory, negotiate or refuse. On the plantation, enslaved Black people were not ascribed the capacity for skill. They were narrated as incapable of possessing skill, and any prowess they displayed was attributed to biological differences that nonetheless marked them as inferior—animal capacity, not human ingenuity. Racial categories structure who is deemed able to possess skill to begin with, while marking a lack of skill as a condition of unfreedom and thus a condition of Blackness.21

[mikopol]

Musical inspiration: Apocryphos, "Heartsick " (album "Against Civilization", 2020)

[kittyit]

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[nando161mando]

"It was thanks to Subject Access Requests that teaching assistants and librarians were able to find out that the UK Department for Education is keeping files on their internet activity.

When the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is passed, we might not be able to find out about such sinister practices because the Bill will make it easier for the government to refuse our requests to access the data it holds about us."

#DPDI #GDPR #ukpolitics #dataprotection

[clemsfilmdiary]

Brainstorm (1983, Douglas Trumbull)

3/17/24

[constructionsafetynetwork]

Best Practices for Protecting Road Construction Workers

Road construction workers operate in an environment where danger is a constant companion. The proximity to moving traffic, the use of heavy machinery, and the exposure to various environmental elements make their workplace one of the more hazardous ones. Therefore, implementing best practices for protecting road construction workers is not just a regulatory requirement but a moral imperative. To…

[joklhops]

i made another thing, tumblr. this is a spoken word industrial piece called 'please turn on location services' it's inspiration is probably obvious. i generated most of the imagery with AI, first time trying that - it's neat. The prison photo is from san quentin prison, unknown date, prisoners gathering for a concert. anyway, hope you dig it.

[bone-dyke]

i love how tech youtube channels uphold the police state

[delightfullyatomiccollector-blog]

The AI in video surveillance industry is projected to grow from USD 3.90 billion in 2024 to USD 12.46 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 21.3% from 2025 to 2030