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ECP NetHappenings Headlines Student Debt, Instagram, K12Tech, Pentagon, Banned Books, AI

7/6/23 ECP NetHappenings Headlines

#CryptoRegulation, #StudentDebt, #Instagram, #K12Tech, #Pentagon, #BannedBooks, #AI

World Wide Crypto will be regulated by the end of 2023

 

Abracadabra Money Mulls Registering DAO as Centralized Legal Body
Abracadabra Money’s team leader had put forward a proposal to form to introduce “a certain degree of centralized legal structure” for its DAO.

GOD TOLD ME TO HATE YOU
In another 6-3 decision, Supreme Court rules, it’s not prejudice if you call it religion

Cancel Student Debt
The Biden administration is resuming costly student debt payments—which is cruel and unnecessary.
Hear from 101 student debtors on why they can’t go back to costly repayment.

Threads’ Instagram ‘Trap’ Shows Why Facebook Should Have Been Broken Up Years Ago
To delete Meta’s new Twitter rival, you also have to delete Instagram.
Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, launched on Wednesday and people are already trying to deactivate their accounts. The issue is: you can’t deactivate your Threads account unless you delete your Instagram account too.
“You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account,” the Threads Supplemental Privacy Policy reads.

A Federal Ruling Restricts Oversight of Social Media
A Trump-appointed judge imposed limits on the Biden administration’s contact with online platforms, potentially opening the floodgates for unregulated misinformation. Biden signed an executive order to expand protections for federal workers, including requiring fed contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage. Republicans slammed his move saying it would result in millions of lost jobs. It didn’t! Help elect more Dems.

1st Grade optional summer homework.
Q. If you could be any superhero, who would you be? What would you do with your superhero powers?

A. I can shoot hot dogs all around the world. I can feed the hungry people of the world. Hey call me hot dog man!!

New York approves $13M for school tech and security upgrades
New York school districts will receive funding to buy tech like video cameras, emergency notification systems and interactive whiteboards. The investment includes $7.9 million for high-tech security upgrades, $4.7 million for classroom technology, $356,000 for school connectivity and $275,000 for non-public schools’ classroom technology and school connectivity. The funds come from the state’s $2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act, an education technology finance initiative that was approved by New York voters in 2014. The law requires each school district requesting funds submit a plan for approval before engaging in any bidding or contracting vendors for projects approved for SSBA funds.

Banned Book giveaway outside of Klanned Karenhood conference is perfect! Mom’s for Liberty has some other very accurate names. #HoesForHitler #StopTheSpin

“MAUS” (Banned by at least one Tennessee school board, so far) IS READ COMICS ONLINE FOR FREE (there are also other links to Maus also if you search)

“They will reduce the amount of money to existing public schools that have real standards.” A coalition of parents and public-school
#teachers has sued to prevent the privatization of schools in Montana.

Is the Air Force too old and small to win?
The Bunker: The Pentagon’s “More-More-More” Refrain
That’s the bottom line in a second Mitchell Institute report, issued three days after the sky-is-falling study cited above. “We’re on a collision course” with reality says a retired three-star Air Force general who helped write the paper. Fighter force readiness could “fall off the cliff,” he added. (It already has [PDF].)

The Bunker: Pentagon Bookkeeping Bloopers!
Pentagon budget shop could be collateral damage
The House Armed Services Committee wants to shutter (PDF) a tiny Pentagon office that keeps track of how and where the Defense Department is spending our money. The panel reportedly believes the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office isn’t sufficiently pliable when it comes to paying attention to lawmakers.

 G/O Media’s AI ‘innovation’ is off to a rocky start.
The company, which owns outlets like The A.V. Club, Gizmodo, and The Onion, announced last week it would begin experimenting with AI tools. (yea, ESPECIALLY when AI submits lies and no one knows it’s a lie) Last week, G/O Media leadership had news for staffers at the many publications the company owns: AI-generated articles were just around the corner.

The Social Dilemma Yes keep your kids off computers

If you’re not paying for a product,
YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.

THE SOCIAL MEDIA MOVIE

ALL THE FACTS IN THIS MOVIE ARE CORRECT.

REMEMBER THE FACTS PRESENTED IN THIS MOVIE ARE TRUE. THEY WERE TRUE  BEFORE YOU EVER SAW THE MOVIE. THIS SITUATION STARTED IN 1994 THAT IS WHEN IT BECAME LEGAL TO  ALLOW COMMERCIAL BUSINESS TO SELL PRODUCTS ON THE INTERNET. BEFORE 1994 ONLY ACADEMICS / UNIVERSITY / GOV/T USED THE INTERNET.

Former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris on Big Tech’s antitrust hearing

‘Social Dilemma’ Star Tristan Harris Responds to Criticisms of the Film, Netflix’s Algorithm. In a new interview, the former Google design ethicist weighs in on the backlash to the popular Netflix doc.

FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, GOOGLE, YOUTUBE, TWITTER, LINKEDIN Platforms have a mind of their own and they’ve become  digital Frankensteins that no one knows how it works, but all we know is that it tends to reward the worst aspects in society.

The insiders  say, “Look, I helped build this thing …”

FACEBOOK

  • FACEBOOK TRIGGERS YOUR EMOTIONS BUT YOU ARE NOT AWARE THAT THEY ARE DOING IT. YOU ARE COMPLETELY CLUELESS!!!!!!!

IF YOU WANT TO CONTROL A COUNTRY – THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY TOOL MORE EFFECTIVE THAN FACEBOOK.

“I Have Blood On My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation

“I was the co-inventor of the Facebook like button”

– HE WON’T LET HIS KIDS ON ANY SOCIAL MEDIA AT ALL.

 the attention economy

Everyone is competing in a finite attention economy and that’s the problem we have to face is that because it is a commons, it is an attention commons, it is a consciousness commons, we are all sharing one airspace of finite amount of attention.. We have a shared commons and we are overshooting the limited capacity of attention that we have as a culture with essentially trivia.

We give people so much trivia and trivialities and egoism and passivity that we devolve not through restricting ourselves, but by overwhelming us with our vices.

Netflix doc ‘The Social Dilemma’ is BE terrified of social media

FAKE NEWS SPREADS SIX TIMES FASTER THAN THE TRUTH

THESE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS CREATE MASS CHAOS, LONELINESS, POLARIZATION, MORE ELECTION HACKING, AND MORE INABILITY TO FOCUS ON THE REAL ISSUES.

“This is checkmate to the humanity”

If you look at all the recommended videos across YouTube in English, what words were used the most. I think the list was hates, obliterates, destroys, owns, right? 

Yup. Checkmate on humanity,” tools to destabilize every country, everywhere.

EVERY SINGLE ACTION YOU TAKE ONLINE IS BEING TRACKED, AND CAREFULLY MONITORED AND RECORDED.

ENGINEERS USE PSYCHOLOGY AGAINST YOU – TO MAKE YOU ADDICTED TO THE DEVISE – TO MAKE ADVERTISERS PAY MONEY FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

THESE ENGINEERS COULD BE CURING CANCER OR SAVING THE PLANET BUT THEY ARE WASTING THEIR BRAINS TEACHING COMPUTERS TO  BE SMARTER ABOUT  HOW TO SPY ON YOU EVEN MORE  THEN HOW THE COMPUTER DID IT YESTERDAY AND YOU ARE DEFENSELESS

“A WHOLE GENERATION IS MORE ANXIOUS – MORE DEPRESSED”

What makes a healthy social fabric or weren’t designed by child psychologists to say what’s good for children.” They were just designed based on, TURNING UP ENGAGEMENT TO SELL ADVERTISING

ETHICAL PROTOCOL

Humane technology for kids

SHOULD YOU ALLOW YOUR KIDS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHEN THE CEO’S OF THESE COMPANIES DON’T LET THEIR OWN KIDS GO ON IT?

Monopoly Power Anti-Trust Arguments that are proceeding right now on Capitol Hill.

The fact that children who want to opt out of Instagram, don’t have another place to go, but another addictive manipulative system of TikTok.

YOUR ARE MANIPULATED BY ALGORITHMS THAT ARE WATCHING EVERYTHING YOU DO. Advertising AI, IS trying to figure out how do we make sure that each session is as profitable as possible.

“What was the key to addicting a user and getting you for life?” “It was very simple,” he said. “All we had to do was get you to seven users in 10 days and then we had you for life.” That’s literally what that playbook said.

There’s a business model built on automating where 3 billion people’s attention goes, in languages that the engineers don’t speak, and you have cases where two years ago a teen girl who went to watch a dieting video, what does YouTube recommend on the right hand side for all those teen girls? Thinspiration anorexia videos because those were better at keeping attention.

NO ONE GETS THE SAME RESULTS FROM GOOGLE –
YOUR RESULTS DEPEND ON WHERE YOU LIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM

People don’t know they are being tracked and influenced.

Living under surveillance capitalism

Surveillance Capitalism and you don’t care.

“If everyone is entitled to their own facts there is really no reason for people to interact.”

Social Media is actually the biggest threat.

Former Twitter executive Jeff Seibert said: “What I want people to know is that every single action you take [online] is carefully monitored and recorded.

“Exactly what image you stop and look at, for how long you look at it.”

“The social dilemma on Netflix is haunting. It doesn’t shy away from the truth. ‘You are the product’ is too simplistic, ‘It’s the gradual change in your behavior and perception that is the product.’

Facebook, also owns Instagram.

Netflix documentary ‘The Social Dilemma’ prompts social media users to rethink Facebook, Instagram and others

One former Facebook executive, Tim Kendall, who was asked what worried him most, said: “In the shortest time horizon, I’m most worried about civil war.”

@AntifascistF12
So important to remember… The Proud Boys are Roger’s Stone’s “Personal Army”. Jack and Roger are close. Just like Cassandra Fairbanks. Joe Rambo Biggs lives in Ormond Beach, FL. A mere two hour drive to Roger’s. A bit further to Miami. Here’s Cassandra Fairbanks’ video from Periscope of Nazi collaborator, Jack Posobiec.

So important to remember… The Proud Boys are Roger’s Stone’s “Personal Army”. Jack and Roger are close. Just like Cassandra Fairbanks.

Joe Rambo Biggs lives in Ormond Beach, FL. A mere two hour drive to Roger’s. A bit further to Miami.

Let’s spell Jack’s last name. Ready? pic.twitter.com/y9q8EU0Fll

— Firestorm on Fascism 🏴🏴 (Content Warning) (@AntifascistF12) October 12, 2020

Republicans in California have set up fake ballot drop boxes that they’re promoting on social media. Whatever your state, before you use a drop box, confirm with your local election office that it’s legitimate.

Millions of people believe there is a Democratic Cabal of Baby Eaters

Lasting hate from the Republican Tea Party Koch Brothers

Jaron Lanier interview on how social media ruins your life

GET OFF FOR YOU OWN GOOD AND FOR THE GOOD OF SOCIETY

“Tonight I deleted Facebook and turned off notifications from Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. It’s time to take back control of our minds.” “Just watched this and immediately deleted #Facebook and #Instagram. A must watch to understand the manipulation.”

In 2019, Netflix launched another attack on Silicon Valley with a documentary called “The Great Hack,” which focuses on Facebook’s Cambridge-Analytica data scandal.

Netflix documentary ‘The Social Dilemma’ prompts social media users to rethink Facebook, Instagram and others

P.S.

James Murdoch says he quit father’s news empire because it legitimizes ‘disinformation’

Campaigns sidestep Cambridge Analytica crackdown with new methods

What do they mean when people say Capitalist or they say Socialist?

What do they mean when People say he/she is a Capitalist or he/she is a Socialist?

Capitalism is about being able to make as much money as you can legally. Billionaires, the .01% got there because of generational untaxed wealth, they also hid their money in offshore tax havens.

ICIJ’s investigations

Hidden in 11.5 million secret files are 140 politicians from more than 50 countries connected to offshore companies in 21 tax havens.

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Corporate Monopolies

#Amazon, #facebook, #Google, #Snapchat, #Instagram

got there through paying off the politicians who allowed antitrust law to atrophy.  Antitrust Law has not kept up with technology in 2020.

 

The politicians who equate Freedom with capitalism that supports monopolies are not taking care of the needs of America and democracy. They are voting their own business interests before that of welfare of 99% of the country.

United States Falls Deeper Into Corrupt Nation Status By Pam Martens: January 29, 2019
The U.S. is no longer in the top 10, or even the top 20, of least corrupt nations. Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for 2018 was released today and the United States has fallen four points deeper into corruption than last year. The U.S. now ranks below Luxembourg, Estonia and France, coming in at number 22 on the chart. In the Americas region, only Canada came in among the top 10 least corrupt nations, earning a number 9 ranking. (View the full list here.) Zoe Reiter, Acting Representative to the U.S. at Transparency International said this about the report: “A four point drop in the CPI score is a red flag and comes at a time when the US is experiencing threats to its system of checks and balances, as well as an erosion of ethical norms at the highest levels of power. If this trend continues, it would indicate a serious corruption problem in a country that has taken a lead on the issue globally. This is a bipartisan issue that requires a bipartisan solution.”

 

Senator Bernie Sanders Should Be Taken Very Seriously as a Presidential Candidate
By Pam Martens: February 21, 2019 ~

On Tuesday, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont declared his candidacy to seek the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

Wall Street On Paradeendorsed Senator Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016because Clinton was effectively running as Wall Street’s candidate and as Obama’s third term. Unfortunately, eight years of Obama had produced zero criminal prosecutions of the executives of the largest Wall Street banks who had brought the country to its knees as they grew obscenely rich from corrupt, cartel behavior at their banks. Obama also seriously misinformed the American people about how little had changed in terms of reining in the risks on Wall Street. Obama also refused to provide a bully pulpit for breaking up the dangerous Wall Street banks by restoring the Glass-Steagall Act.

Bernie Sanders explains Democratic Socialism

GOP Pence attacks ‘socialism’

Mike Pence Secures the No Law Zone Around Wall Street By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: October 25, 2017 Millions of Americans have quietly been pondering for months what a President Mike Pence would be like should Donald Trump be impeached or resign. Yesterday they found out and it’s not a pretty picture. After the U.S. Senate tied 50-50 on a vote yesterday, Vice President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote to keep the nation’s courthouse doors closed to the customers of the Too-Big-to-Fail banks on Wall Street – effectively strengthening the no law zone that already exists for these banks. The vote came about as a result of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issuing its final rule in July which would allow consumers who have been defrauded in financial transactions involving credit cards and bank accounts to have access to file a group action (known legally as a “class action”) using the nation’s courts.

Senator Bernie Sanders’ Banking Bill and the Kavanaugh Confirmation By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: October 8, 2018

Last week when Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a new banking bill to break up the mega banks on Wall Street, he had this to say: “In our nation today, we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society where a small number of very wealthy individuals and large corporations have enormous control over our economic and political life. Today, we are in a country where three people, three of the wealthiest people, own more wealth than the bottom half of American society and 52 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.” Sanders made this statement on October 3.

Just three days later, on October 6, a thoroughly discredited nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, who had the financial backing of a front group funded by billionaires Charles and David Koch, Americans for Prosperity, was installed on the U.S. Supreme Court. This marked a new milestone for the oligarchs. There was no longer any need to mount even a pretense of representative government. Kavanaugh’s confirmation was opposed by 2400 law professors from a wide array of universities; the National Council of Churches, which represents 100,000 congregations and over 40 million individuals; former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens; and tens of thousands of Americans who protested in cities across the U.S.

In 2019, Wall Street Banks Will Determine the Future of America By Pam Martens: January 2, 2019

In short, Americans have gotten both the stock market and the government they deserve for failing to meaningfully reform both following the epic 2008 financial crash which pointed so clearly to unprecedented corruption on Wall Street and within the corridors of power in Washington.

Americans’ failure to demand real reform of what Senator Bernie Sanders has correctly called a business model of fraud on Wall Street means that those same behemoth Wall Street banks that crashed the financial system in 2008 are even more dangerous today. For its part, the Trump administration has become a willing enabler to Wall Street’s financial hubris by putting its former lawyer, Jay Clayton, in charge of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a former foreclosure king, Steven Mnuchin, in charge of the U.S. Treasury and the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

Wall Street banks have now grown so massive and interconnected that they are in a position to determine the very future of this nation. The big banks’ share prices are signaling that the day of reckoning is coming in 2019.

Wall Street Banks Are Trading in Their Own Company’s Stock: How Is This Legal? By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 15, 2017

House Oversight Committee