Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future
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Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future
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#2Pretty alarmist writing. "I therefore can’t resist showing a new piece of Google technology: the military robot ‘WildCat’ made by Boston Dynamics which was bought by Google in December 2013". And goes on to show a video of something that was funded by DARPA well before Google purchased Boston Dynamics. Google has already said multiple times that it won't be pursuing any military contracts.
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#3This is easily the most important article currently on the front page. At times its poignancy reminded me of some of the talks by Maciej Ceglowski, aka the guy who runs Pinboard, but this talk is a bit more direct and a bit less funny.
The world of coveillance or sousveillance sounds attractive, but I think that a quick look at the state of computing for the average person, and their ability to organize photos, run their own email server, or any number of tasks that would be somewhat analogous to the ability for citizens to have some form of meaningful technological power against large corporations and the government, should dispel this notion pretty quickly.
The frog is being slowly boiled right now, and I honestly don't have any answers about what to do. All I can think is just to do what I can to use free software, support organizations like the EFF and Mozilla, and work to make sure that my life isn't completely captured by giant companies like Google and Apple, as I also try to remain politically engaged at home.
Maybe that's all any of us can do.
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#4Didn't go through this TLDR writing, but just briefly scrolling the page.
I was so amazed the author can connect Ai Weiwei with the WildCat robot, an image of Obama's calling from a camp, and a kid in a car using Disney product.
How this can connect together?!
If you want to talk about surveillance or privacy, won't NSA's Snowden be a more famous and impacting example?
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#5We don't need to throw the baby out with the bath water. We just need to make sure government doesn't get too much power. This doesn't have anything to do with Google or Apple (they can't put you in jail).
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#6Didn't go through this TLDR writing, but just briefly scrolling the page. I was so amazed the author can connect Ai Weiwei with the WildCat robot, an image of Obama's calling from a camp, and a kid in a car using Disney product. How this can connect together?! If you want to talk about surveillance or privacy, won't NSA's Snowden be a more famous and impacting example?
> Didn't go through this TLDR writing, but just briefly scrolling the page.
> How this can connect together?!
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#7Pretty alarmist writing. "I therefore can’t resist showing a new piece of Google technology: the military robot ‘WildCat’ made by Boston Dynamics which was bought by Google in December 2013". And goes on to show a video of something that was funded by DARPA well before Google purchased Boston Dynamics. Google has already said multiple times that it won't be pursuing any military contracts.
And goes on to show a piece of technology owned by Google.
Who funded it and when is irrelevant to whether it belongs to google.
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#8> The young boys that had to guard Ai Weiwei in his cell had to stand completely still, weren’t allowed to talk and couldn’t even blink their eyes.
This is complete nonsense. You can't order someone to not blink.
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#9Pretty alarmist writing. "I therefore can’t resist showing a new piece of Google technology: the military robot ‘WildCat’ made by Boston Dynamics which was bought by Google in December 2013". And goes on to show a video of something that was funded by DARPA well before Google purchased Boston Dynamics. Google has already said multiple times that it won't be pursuing any military contracts.
And goes on to show a piece of technology owned by Google. Who funded it and when is irrelevant to whether it belongs to google.
Really? Google owns a fighter jet. What kind of conclusions am I supposed to draw from that?
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#10Didn't go through this TLDR writing, but just briefly scrolling the page. I was so amazed the author can connect Ai Weiwei with the WildCat robot, an image of Obama's calling from a camp, and a kid in a car using Disney product. How this can connect together?! If you want to talk about surveillance or privacy, won't NSA's Snowden be a more famous and impacting example?
The connection is lack of privacy.