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During the Great Panic of 2020, Meta forced its employees to take harmful vaccines before returning to work. Now, Meta sees no problem in stripping away privacy in the workplace by installing keystroke loggers on their computers. In the midst ot a huge layoff, many employees are livid that Meta will use them to train their replacements. Meanwhile, Meta assured them that the data will never be used for performance reviews or personal surveillance.

OpenAI has quietly rolled out "Chronicle," a new feature in its Codex Mac app that periodically snaps screenshots of your screen and ships them to OpenAI's servers for processing. This is the ambient-AI future being sold as productivity: continuous surveillance of your digital life, rebranded as convenience, available for a mere $100 a month. OpenAI promises it won't train on the data. Do you trust them?

The promoters of real-world asset tokenization use the language of liberation. Democratization. Financial inclusion. Access for all. Frictionless ownership. These are the words of a sales pitch. tokenization is not a new form of ownership. It is a new form of conquest. And the conquered will not know what happened to them until the system is complete.

The brick wall is straight ahead for data center construction in America but that won't stop or even slow the AI revolution. Why? Because the Gulf states are opening their arms and purse strings to shift power to the Middle East: cheap and virtually unlimited energy, unregulated and abundant real estate, and dictators already in place to grease the skids. In addition, the new IMEC trade corridor will connect India and Europe.

In January 2025, arch-Technocrat Andreessen bragged, “A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero.” As tech companies are shedding jobs, Andreessen declares, "all fake." This is the same person who helped President-elect Trump pick all the other arch-Technocrats who have captured the Federal government.

It was promised to make your life easier. It promised abundance. It promised leisure. All it has done for you is to drive you into a brick wall, make your job more stressful, and eat all your leisure time. Software developers felt the pain first, but it is spreading to all jobs where AI is part of your workflow. Worse, at the end of your "brain fry", you face the risk of losing your job altogether. ⁃