It is really frightening to know that people and companies like Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Google, Microsoft, Thiel, Altman and numerous unnamed others basically look at all of us as if we were made of glass. They know EVERYTHING about us. Don't believe for a minute there is any such thing as privacy for us Jane and John Doe's.
I recently watched the Frontline documentary on Tibet and how China is controlling the Tibetans. Surveillance cameras everywhere - everywhere! And I feel, with what is unfolding in our country, that we are, sadly, hurtling toward a similar fate. We have to grab hold of the situation and put guardrails on AI, if it's not too late already.
The civil servants in the Digital Services office that was taken over and turned into DOGE have resigned en masse. I am the only one that sees this as a BIG, BIG, REALLY BIG deal? The PBS Newshour tonight didn't mention it. In my opinion, this is the best chance to stop the coup - but of course, unless there are a at least few Republicans in Congress who step up, the game is over. Metaphorically speaking, Musk already has the piano wire around the neck of the government "of, by, and for the people."
How do we keep elections from being hacked? Important. Rump, tootin and fElon came right out and said they "had secrets" and "didn't need votes" and "never have to vote again".
The irony of the tech companies building vast wealth on the basis of government funded research from the early days of the internet, and now using those technologies to take control of the government is not lost on me.
I'm an American immigrant to Japan, which has strict laws regulating personal privacy. If you google my name in Japanese, you get my Master's thesis and a few hits to places I used to work.
If you google my name in English, you get my maiden name, every mailing address and phone number I have ever used in the US, my parents, my siblings, their children... The US has really failed on information protections, and that isn't even government use.
Make no mistake. Although a lot of this takeover of our democracy is happening on line, our country is now in a very real struggle against a very real coup d'état, an insurrection that will spell out very clearly what American democracy will be for our children.
It is really frightening to know that people and companies like Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Google, Microsoft, Thiel, Altman and numerous unnamed others basically look at all of us as if we were made of glass. They know EVERYTHING about us. Don't believe for a minute there is any such thing as privacy for us Jane and John Doe's.
I recently watched the Frontline documentary on Tibet and how China is controlling the Tibetans. Surveillance cameras everywhere - everywhere! And I feel, with what is unfolding in our country, that we are, sadly, hurtling toward a similar fate. We have to grab hold of the situation and put guardrails on AI, if it's not too late already.
The civil servants in the Digital Services office that was taken over and turned into DOGE have resigned en masse. I am the only one that sees this as a BIG, BIG, REALLY BIG deal? The PBS Newshour tonight didn't mention it. In my opinion, this is the best chance to stop the coup - but of course, unless there are a at least few Republicans in Congress who step up, the game is over. Metaphorically speaking, Musk already has the piano wire around the neck of the government "of, by, and for the people."
How do we keep elections from being hacked? Important. Rump, tootin and fElon came right out and said they "had secrets" and "didn't need votes" and "never have to vote again".
Believe them when they tell you this!!
The irony of the tech companies building vast wealth on the basis of government funded research from the early days of the internet, and now using those technologies to take control of the government is not lost on me.
I'm an American immigrant to Japan, which has strict laws regulating personal privacy. If you google my name in Japanese, you get my Master's thesis and a few hits to places I used to work.
If you google my name in English, you get my maiden name, every mailing address and phone number I have ever used in the US, my parents, my siblings, their children... The US has really failed on information protections, and that isn't even government use.
Make no mistake. Although a lot of this takeover of our democracy is happening on line, our country is now in a very real struggle against a very real coup d'état, an insurrection that will spell out very clearly what American democracy will be for our children.