– What Is A Christian Nationalist?
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The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. – Benjamin Franklin
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“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist” is a quote generally attributed to Charles Baudelaire – or possibly Keyser Söze – depending on who you ask on the internet.
Something similar can be said about Big Brother.
When you think about what our emerging surveillance state will look like, you think “1984.” You imagine East Germany powered by Google and Amazon. You recall your favorite dystopian sci-fi film—or maybe horror stories of China’s social credit system. Thoughts of a frustrated middle-aged police chief from a mid-sized Midwestern town attempting to procure security cameras with innovative new features probably don’t come to mind. You definitely don’t think of a guy in a lawn chair jotting down the license plate numbers of passing vehicles in a notebook. And that’s partly how the surveillance state is going to emerge as it creeps its way into one small town at a time.
Whether a surveillance state is the end goal is hard to say. The police chief of Pawnee, Indiana probably isn’t plotting the development of his own mini-Oceania. But, 18,000-plus mini-Oceanias operating across multiple platforms with varying degrees of integration, both locally and nationally, is undoubtedly the direction in which we are heading as salespeople peddle shiny new surveillance gadgets to cities big and small, making often unverified but intuitively appealing claims of how their devices will decrease crime or prove to be useful investigative tools.
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Apple’s nearly $4,000 mixed-reality headset, Apple Vision Pro, hit store shelves on Friday, and early adopters have already been spotted in the wild.
Let’s begin with Fox’s The Simpsons, which has successfully predicted the future once again.
The Simpsons predicted the Apple Vision Pro. Unreal! pic.twitter.com/xsMcIViYHz
— Not Jerome Powell (@alifarhat79) February 4, 2024
In recent days, mixed reality enthusiasts strapped on Vision Pro and attempted to integrate the headset into their daily lives.
X has countless videos of early adopters driving vehicles:
This man was arrested for using Apple Vision Pro while driving a Tesla. pic.twitter.com/42t5RShEB6
— My name is لكهن (@4SingleRahi) February 4, 2024
https://twitter.com/insidershut/status/1754117487854035410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1754117487854035410%7Ctwgr%5Ecb39c84e5647382e410b9c3d8d2b393002a9569a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Ftechnology%2Fsociety-one-step-closer-dystopia-vision-pro-early-adopters-spotted-wild
Early Vision Pro adopters have been walking through the streets.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1754315457514086771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1754315457514086771%7Ctwgr%5Ecb39c84e5647382e410b9c3d8d2b393002a9569a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Ftechnology%2Fsociety-one-step-closer-dystopia-vision-pro-early-adopters-spotted-wild
Society is one step closer to dystopia pic.twitter.com/r5PBGgeeZS
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 4, 2024
Wearing the Apple Vision Pro around SoHo 🚶 pic.twitter.com/U6Jq8QrOyb
— highsnobiety (@highsnobiety) February 3, 2024
This is stressing me out just from watching 😳 #AppleVisionPro pic.twitter.com/dDJjaQ1wKj
— Tobi Mülhauser 🍕 (@TobiMuelhauser) February 5, 2024
And many have been doing very interesting activities while in public.
This fan was using Apple Vision Pro on courtside during the Celtics-Grizzlies game 😂
(via @barstoolsports/ IG)pic.twitter.com/vH3J2oVOPn
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) February 5, 2024
It has only been 2 days since Apple introduced Vision Pro, and there's a frenzy surrounding it.
Here are 10 instances of individuals going overboard with their reactions:
[1] Now in Londonpic.twitter.com/niDGz0JBNY
— Priyank Ahuja (@ahuja_priyank) February 5, 2024
Read more“Society One Step Closer To Dystopia”: Vision-Pro Early-Adopters Spotted In Wild
“Initial users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs.”
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"This is crazy. This is a disaster."
Electric Vehicle owners find out the hard way what it means to go electric during Chicago's harsh winter.
Can't imagine why the EV market isn't taking off.pic.twitter.com/1jRbsFX5L8
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 17, 2024
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Dallas-based hedge fund manager Kyle Bass blasted the US Department of Energy in a post on social media X for transferring nuclear battery technology to China.
“What’s going on in the US Department of Energy? Why did we hand this technology over to the Chinese Government?” Bass wrote on X while commenting on Hu Xijin’s, the editor-in-chief of Chinese state media Global Times, post.
Bass pointed out, “The Chinese company didn’t steal this technology. It was given to them — by the US Department of Energy. First in 2017, as part of a sublicense.”
https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1746566812827881533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1746566812827881533%7Ctwgr%5E0a61473e0e5689227b4e67cea18bbb995534cf34%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Ftechnology%2Fkyle-bass-blasts-us-govt-giving-china-nuclear-battery-tech
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Be careful what you say while you are driving your vehicle, because you are being watched. Today, we live in a giant surveillance prison in which virtually everything that we do is being monitored, tracked, recorded and analyzed. In this day and age, you should just assume that nothing that you do is ever private. When I was much younger, if I really wanted to have a private conversation with someone I thought that taking a long drive with that person was a great way to do that. But those days are long gone.
Unless you have a vehicle that was manufactured quite some time ago, it is spying on you. In fact, a report that has been released by the Mozilla Foundation actually states that vehicles are “the official worst category of products for privacy” that Mozilla has ever reviewed…
If you’re wondering which gadgets have the worst user privacy practices, it turns out the answer may be parked outside. According to a report published by the Mozilla Foundation on Wednesday, cars are “the official worst category of products for privacy” that it’s ever reviewed. The global nonprofit found that 92 percent of the reviewed automakers provide drivers with little (if any) control over their personal data, with 84 percent sharing user data with outside parties.
I was stunned when I read that.
Could that possibly be true?
According to Mozilla, automakers are gathering all sorts of data about all of us…
If you haven’t lost your job yet, you should be very thankful. Artificial intelligence and robots are taking more of our jobs with each passing day, and there will be no end to this high tech invasion. Eventually we could get to a point where AI and robots can do virtually everything far more efficiently and far more inexpensively than humans can. So what will happen to the vast majority of the human population when their labor is no longer needed? Will a way be found to quietly deal with “useless eaters” that are considered to be “just taking up space”? For years we have been warned that AI and robots would revolutionize the workforce, and now that day has officially arrived.
For example, Amazon has been using various types of simple robots to perform certain tasks for years, and now highly sophisticated humanoid robots are being deployed right alongside normal human workers…
Read moreWhat Is Going To Happen To Our Society As AI And Robots Take Most Of Our Jobs?