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    2 days ago

    The people with the skills to use technology are not the ones with the power.

    Their bosses are the ones with power, and they don’t know fucking anything.

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      2 days ago

      Yup, exploitation of labor per usual.

      But when I say ‘skills’ I didn’t mean individual coding ability, I mean like Analytics. Skills that an entire corporation wields. Monitoring weather and hiking prices for utilities during a national emergency incrementally or ‘intelligently’. The way VW cheated on emissions. The way flock uses optical text recognition to read license plates and effectively creates a massive surveillance apparatus.

      Use tech to do a thing, but scale it up wide and quick, abuse it before the law can catch up.