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  • Anduril’s autonomous surveillance towers have been used on the U.S.–Mexico border to detect and track migrants, as part of DHS programs. This has drawn criticism from immigrant rights groups and academics who argue such systems dehumanize migrants and enable policies that align with authoritarian nationalism.

    Anduril is privately funded (by VC firms like Founders Fund) but markets and sells directly to governments and military agencies, without the typical government R&D cycle. It builds weapons and surveillance systems first, then offers them to the state. This “build first, ask later” model can lead to unchecked corporate influence over the military-industrial complex, which some critics argue is a step toward a techno-authoritarian fascist regime.

    Anduril founder Palmer Luckey was ousted from Oculus after it was revealed he funded a pro-Trump meme organization (Nimble America) known for spreading far-right content during the 2016 election. While this doesn’t make the company fascist, it raises concerns for critics about the political leanings of its leadership and how those ideologies could influence product deployment.

    Anduril is deeply involved in developing autonomous weapon systems, like the ALTIUS-600M loitering munition. Critics warn that the use of AI to identify and kill targets without human input could lead to violations of international law and facilitate mass violence or authoritarian control. Anduril’s heavy investment in such systems leads some to see it as advancing a dystopian militarized fascist future.








  • I use sunshine/moonlight there is nothing as good as that.

    Both the server and client run in portable mode

    By default it will fullscreen and use relative mouse but use this command line to one-click start moonlight

    Moonlight.exe --display-mode windowed --absolute-mouse --resolution 1920x1080 stream yourserver.lan desktop

    Only little hiccup, the client need to pair with server before connecting, the client will give you a number and you type it in the sunshine management interface



  • The authorities want an homogeneous population, as they also have a limited ability to imagine the social sphere in multiple dimensions, this is why you’re seeing things like the gender binaries. At least that’s just two simulations to run. But gender as spectrum, this becomes quickly untenable for the elites to model for control, they wish the squash the real world complexity into flattened binaries or even uniformity.

    Yes, I think you got it exactly right and the audio normalization analogy is correct, at least for sound nerds like us.

    Hypernormalization is a dysfunctional response from elites due to their human cognitive weakness. This is why we’re not going back to “King” no single human can bear the complexity of the entire world in their skull mush. They will melt down and genocide the Kurds when it gets too hard for them to conjugate everything. This is why dictators and fascism will do a lot of damage, but have no hope whatsoever for success. They are “rebellion from cognitive weakness”, they violently lash out at complexity itself, at those things they cannot understand. They want to reduce everything to a simple narrative of us versus them and then destroy “them” so only a uniform homogeneous “us” remains. This “us” identical to the ruler, does not require the ruler to imagine “the other” instead they only rule as if everyone else was an identical copy of them. And if anyone disagrees with that, they are “other”.

    From that we know the “few” cannot rule the many, but then how do we avoid the traps of design by committee, bikeshedding and the various paralysis that come from complexity beyond human cognition. Concentrations of power are too dumb to rule, but the mob and the market are also dumb and easily fooled, not to mention irresponsible and self-destructive. (The market is burning the planet, right now, it cannot see into the future). The mob is emotional and easily manipulated, often by its own emotions.

    I think we need new modes of thinking more advanced than what we had in the 1700s. Something invented with at least the idea of what a computer could do.

    You’ll probably want to watch the best documentary on the subject

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM

    I also recommend the following by the same author

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
    about advertising and consumerism

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6EBpLfLHCA&list=PLC4E798CAE3E10597
    about how our own surplus value is used against us




  • I got two of those for 100$ USD for the purpose of hosting openwrt in proxmox LXC containers. One thing I noticed is they have no cooling. I put a 10 GBe mellanox card in it plus a very low end radeon gpu and it gets quite hot in there. My recommendation, instead of trying to embiggen it as much as possible, by putting 2 more sticks of ram and the biggest cpu, I would recommend just buying another. The performance boost per dollar isn’t as much as the performance capacity of a second, third or 4th machine.



  • What a corrupt system, they have made us complicit in our own exploitation, if we try to stop it, we will be the first on the chopping block, it is monstrous that our pensions have been stolen and turned against us, and of course, WILL DISAPPEAR when we actually go to collect so they can put us in meat packing hospices for a quick, wished-for death once we are no longer profitable






  • I agree, I believe the fediverse as it exists just create many “mini-reddits” the problem still exists and the incentives to concentrate attention into “big instances” and “big communities” will almost certainly recreate the same problem that reddit does. Except with a fragmented audience, the misdeeds and abuses of admins will be harder to detect and more confusing to escape.

    So, I agree, without serious steps, taken urgently to disempower instance owners and their lieutenant moderators I believe Lemmy and the Fediverse are already doomed. An aristocratic class of server owners will have free reign to gaslight the small remnant of reddit refugees into believe whatever their interests desires.

    And based on your username, I suspect that you are one of these owners, that this is the real reason of your objection to further disempowerment of instance owners and that what I see as a nightmare is in fact your dream.