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Interested in cybersecurity, online privacy, tech politics, OSINT, and global affairs.
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neotic-green.bsky.social
It goes without saying that requiring ID verification to use a social media site has much more to do with eliminating anonymity and user tracking by authoritarian governments than "protecting" anyone from adult materials.
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jul 10
Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.

I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
www.theverge.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
neotic-green.bsky.social
this ties into the Network State plan advanced by prominent technofascists as of late.
March 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
neotic-green.bsky.social
It is increasingly obvious that the Californian Ideology, once concerned with freedom, communication, and the digital frontier, has evolved into a darker form over the last decade or two, and has merged with rightwing authoritarian neofascism into a new entity that threatens all existence on Earth.
March 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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voter1vote.bsky.social
URGENT WARNING: #Trump is Planning to Invade Canada & Greenland
Malcolm Nance reports:
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open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
URGENT WARNING: Trump is Planning to Invade Canada & Greenland
The Regime’s Big Talk Indicates that the Decision Has Been Made; They Just Don’t Know How or When.
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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cibo.bsky.social
This theory on the other hand...
And why bother? By the nineteen-thirties, the fantasy of technological supremacy had found its fullest expression in the Technocracy movement, which, during the Depression, vied with socialism and fascism as an alternative to capitalism and liberal democracy. “Technocracy, briefly stated, is the application of science to the social order,” a pamphlet called “Technocracy in Plain Terms” explained in 1939. Technocrats proposed the abolition of all existing economic and political arrangements—governments and banks, for instance—and their replacement by engineers, who would rule by numbers. “Money cannot be used, and its function of purchasing must be replaced by a scientific unit of measurement,” the pamphlet elaborated, assuring doubters that nearly everyone “would probably come to like living under a Technate.” Under the Technate, humans would no longer need names; they would have numbers. (One Technocrat called himself 1x1809x56.) They dressed in gray suits and drove gray cars. If this sounds familiar—tech bros and their gray hoodies and silver Teslas, cryptocurrency and the abolition of currency—it should. As a political movement, Technocracy fell out of favor in the nineteen-forties, but its logic stuck around. Elon Musk’s grandfather was a leader of the Technocracy movement in Canada; he was arrested for being a member, and then, soon after South Africa announced its new policy of apartheid, he moved to Pretoria, where Elon Musk was born, in 1971. One of Musk’s children is named X Æ A-12. Welcome to the Technate.
February 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
neotic-green.bsky.social
Elon Musk's grandfather was a key organizer of the Technocracy Movement in the 1930s. Reading their proposal for the "North American Technate" is interesting in light of the current proposed US annexation of Canada and Greenland.

technocracy.fandom.com/wiki/Technate
Technate
The term Technate was originated by Technocracy Incorporated in the early 1930s to describe the region over which a technocratic society would operate using thermodynamic energy accounting instead of ...
technocracy.fandom.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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jamesrball.com
This kind of effort blows right past any tenable argument for "pressuring Ukraine to peace" and right towards outright trying to facilitate an outright Russian victory.

How is Ukraine supposed to have any faith in the good offices of US diplomacy against this backdrop?
March 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM