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  • Except people are just upset about Flock and remain largely ignorant of other methods, again, like cellphone stingrays.

    During the process of forcing connections from all compatible cellular devices in a given area, the StingRay operator needs to determine which device is the desired surveillance target. This is accomplished by downloading the IMSI, ESN, or other identifying data from each of the devices connected to the StingRay.[14] In this context, the IMSI or equivalent identifier is not obtained from the cellular service provider or from any other third-party. The StingRay downloads this data directly from the device using radio waves.[19]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

    To make people aware of those, we need to stop talking about just Flock and draw the line at “every use of surveillance needs a warrant”.

    People don’t realize how much we’ve lost since 9/11, this is a chance and we need to capitalize on it and claw back as much ground as we’ve lost


  • This is like saying we might as well give walley style mobility scooters to kids because they don’t get enough exercise anyways…

    They still learn some critical thinking going thru their day, if teachers are pushing AI, then the kids will use it for everything.

    After that the techbros will say teachers are now pointless, kids will get strapped up with video camera glasses and supervised by police officers who’s only job is to make sure the glasses stay on.

    There’s levels to this shit and this isn’t just useful here, it makes the things the tech ros want to do next even harder.

    Like, do you really think their end goal is a teacher and students using AI as much as they want?

    They want to condition the next generation to accept constant surveillance and to trust chatbots as authority figures over anything else.

    Getting it out of classrooms is one of the most important things that we can’t wait to address, and that’s saying a lot in 2026





  • but it does have consistent dots for the X axis, every year.

    I’m not sure what you mean by “consistent”…

    It’s one a year up to dec 2025, then after that do you notice how the lines goes up and down super fast?

    That’s because there’s a shit ton more dots there, even if they’re not large enough to see, any change in slope means there’s a new data point.

    Doing one a year and then one a week is not consistent.

    but part of the point of the graph is showing how billionaires have almost tripled their wealth since 2022, at the expense of everyone else.

    Right…

    The person who made it likely just crammed two different graphs (or underlaying datasets) together, and most likely had a chatbot do it for them.

    That’s actually why I blocked the “data is beautiful” community here, it was just people who know nothing of statistics jamming two graphs together like that accomplishes anything except making the information harder to read, which making the information easier to read is the literal purpose of graphs.

    Most people never take even a single stats class, and just don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.

    Edit:

    I’m also confused, why did you downvote me and ask me to explain?

    It makes it look like you just want to argue instead of learn. I’m happy to help, but I really don’t care what you learn, if you just want to argue find someone else.





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    That’s my point no list will be good enough. Although I did include another example most would be familiar to illustrate there are other issues…

    We need to fight against the concept of constant warrantless surveillance. Not just what methods are used or even thought of today.

    If we banned every existing method, everyone will try to find new ones. Then we’d have to wait for those to be massive problems before enough people care

    Make it against surveillance in general, and we don’t even have to make new catchy slogans.

    Anything else is playing a game designed for us to lose.