This paragraph caught my attention, as I’ve been trying to shift the discussion from surveillance to debt capitalism. What does this algorithm-industrial complex look like and who is involved? Perhaps our first glimpse of the catastrophic impact of algorithms on civil society was robodebt, deemed unlawful by the Federal Court in a blistering assessment describing … Continue reading Robo-Debt and the Algorithm-Industrial Complex
Recently I noticed in an old USAF study that a Dr. Walter Thiel (chemist) was credited as Germany’s “best propulsion expert” until he was killed by a 1943 Allied bombing run on a Nazi weapons research center. This little detail (perhaps with a nod to Operation Paperclip) prompted me to start looking into the Thiel … Continue reading Why Doesn’t Peter Thiel Denounce Nazism?
The premise of “surveillance capitalism” is that it should be stopped for doing harms. However, what if surveillance is in fact the foundation of modern science and capitalism is the foundation of that science being sustainable? Wouldn’t stopping authorized observations without caution then cast society perilously into ignorance? The real threat instead of surveillance (e.g. … Continue reading Surveillance Capitalism Theory is Dangerously Wrong