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Make Way for the Killer Robots: The Government Is Expanding Its Power to Kill
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Crush! Kill! Destroy!”—The Robot, Lost in Space The purpose of a good government is to protect the lives and liberties of its people. Unfortunately, we have gone so far in the opposite direction from … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Militarization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged AI, civil liberties, Deep State, dronws, Dystopia, Militarization, police state, Robots, SFPD, surveillance state, SWAT, Technocracy
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Automatons – Life Inside the Unreal Machine
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times ɔːˈtɒmət(ə)n/ noun a moving mechanical device made in imitation of a human being. a machine which performs a range of functions according to a predetermined set of coded instructions. used in similes and … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Algorithms, artificial intelligence, Automatons, confirmation bias, Consciousness, culture, Dystopia, golems, Humanity, Hyperreality, idiocracy, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, psychology, Robots, Social Media, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology
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Luddism and Economic Ideology
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Smithsonian Magazine has a very good feature on the Luddites, well worth a read. There are many elements you just don’t read in many economic histories; for example, the 40-hour work week was not brought down … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged 40 Hour Work Week, 5 Day Workweek, Adam Smith, automation, capitalism, Chris Dillow, economic inequality, Economics, Economism, James Kwak, Kirkpatrick Sale, Labor, London, Luddism, Luddites, Neoclassical Economics, Rebels Against the Future, Revolution, Robots, technology, Wealth Gap, Wealth of Nations, Work
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Saturday Matinee: Obsolete
Source: Truthstream Media The Future Doesn’t Need Us… Or So We’ve Been Told. With the rise of technology and the real-time pressures of an online, global economy, humans will have to be very clever – and very careful – not … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Film, Financial Crisis, Labor, Philosophy, Saturday Matinee, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Corporate Globalization, culture, Documentary Film, economic crisis, Economics, Global Economy, Internet, Labor, Robots, science, social control, society, technology, Work
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Will Robots Take Your Job?
By Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams Source: ROAR In recent months, a range of studies has warned of an imminent job apocalypse. The most famous of these—a study from Oxford—suggests that up to 47 percent of US jobs are at … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology, war
Tagged automation, capitalism, Economics, Jobs, Labor, Mass Unemployment, Precarity, Productivity, Robotics, Robots, Silicon Valley, technology, UBI, unemployment, Universal Basic Income, Wages, Work
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A Universal Basic Income Is The Bipartisan Solution To Poverty We’ve Been Waiting For
What if the government simply paid everyone enough so that no one was poor? It’s an insane idea that’s gaining an unlikely alliance of supporters. By Ben Schiller Source: FastCoexist.com There’s a simple way to end poverty: the government … Continue reading
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Tagged automation, Basic Income, Bureaucracy, Conservatives, Income Inequality, Liberals, Libertarians, Poverty, Precariat, Robots, technology, Universal Basic Income, Wealth Gap, Wealth Redistribution, Welfare, Workfare
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