Well we're not doing anything about it. We ought to be coordinating something together, some exchange system that we design ourselves and which has already been designed many times. We need to start seeking because when it comes in, they're going to pull the rug out from under us and money will be worthless. I am sure they are transferring funds right now as we lament.
CBDC are Central Bank Digital Currencies. In our present age of surveillance, control, and AI, it puts immense power and control in "authorities" that run the CBDC system (be it states or private corporations or combinations of both).
The most accurate and stripped-down definition of a CBDC, once the commercial smokescreen is removed, is that it is no longer a currency or a means of payment—it is a centralized, programmable system for the digital allocation of resources.
With a CBDC, you own nothing. You merely have a license to use the state's digital resources as long as you comply with the conditions attached to your digital identity wallet (there are variations on its implementation in different countries).
Calling a CBDC a "digital currency" is therefore the system's linguistic smokescreen to convince the public that it is merely an upgrade of existing money. In reality, it is presented here as a digital locking mechanism that makes human survival entirely conditional upon digital compliance.
It's one more way that TPTB (the powers that be) can assert control and compliance over people (though the tech and finance industries love to gaslight the public about CBDCs.).
It is something worth fighting against, just as the use of AI by corporations and the state is worth fighting against.
Fear not, it will have the opposite effect. All of this attempt at AI manipulation just destroys faith and trust in AI and makes most people concerned. The harder they push it the greater the resistance.
I will truly enjoy watching what happens when they try to pull this shit on my students - especially the theatre students. Believe me, they take no shit at all from figures of authority as it is. It's going to be hysterical. (Side note: one of my Grade 9 kids - 14 years old - managed to hack the entire Administration LAN. Everything. Principal and VP accounts? Done. All teacher evaluations, all disciplinary records...They came down to our black box space to take him away, and he just turned around and smiled at us. Ciao ciao 👋)
That is absolutely brilliant! This is what young ones can do now they are well-versed in programming. I love hearing about things like this and want to see it done more often. I bet that's why they stalked Julian Assange. Can't let anyone getting away with that now can they? But young ones are seeing what's going on and they're savvy.
How much more evil can the israeli minds become. To pretend they are donating to help Palestinian children that their current military are killing daily for sport, and then claiming the children should be smiling and peaceful, and not say anything even slightly derogatory about the people occupying their country for almost eighty years and murdering them every damn day. Is that not satisfying enough. They now want to eavesdrop with their little machines in case the teachers say anything bad about their murderers, in case it teaches the children to hate the facist psychopaths that are still killing all their friends and families?
What an evil bunch of hippocritical bastards. How many Palestinians have they maimed for life both physically and mentally and still not satisfied in their hellush acts?
If there were the slightest bit of justice, these surveillance devices should be placed in every home of every illegal occupier, and their "non-working, living free with everything paid for by American taxpayers without their agreement. And that means, not having to work, given a home free, food, energy, TV, clothes, health care all free". These illegal settlers, who obviously have way too much time on their hands which they wouldn't have in the country they should be living in, should be wearing ankle bracelets that show what lazy thieving bastards they are, instead of being allowed to menace and steal everything from Palestinians. They should be on chain gangs rebuilding all of the destroyed homes and infrastructure in all of Palestine or, they could sod off back where they came from and work for a living like everyone else.
Time for a break in to where these AI monstrosities and relieve the money-greedy interlopers of yet another factory of humanity's destruction.
Israel really needs to grow up. They have a thing about speech, like they can't stand being critiqued but of course it's ok for them to critique others and to even act as executioners to little children. Oh those Israeli's - they spend so much time slamming the dignity of others when all the while their reputation in the world sinks. No wonder they were kicked out of so many countries.
Surely they would set this surveillance up in Zionist Israeli classrooms first of all as the way to show how it works - the songs being sung and histories being studied - all love and peace - surely! (NOT.) I feel ill.
AI indeed makes us dumber and lazier. Before, we had to look up things ourselves, now AI is doing everything for us. I wonder what the generation will look like that grows up with this.
CJ>>"We’ve got to find some way to stop these freaks."
There is a way. But for this to succeed, good people have to be willing to do bad things for good reasons. All significant revolutions and uprisings in history (including decolonial and anti-imperialist ones) involved bloodshed and loss of life. I doubt the present fight we find ourselves in will be any different...
Insane, but totally figures. I'm a qualified secondary history teacher. I don't even bother anymore. Education systems in the West are a joke that really isn't funny. The secondary system in Australia is an abortion.
The digital prison has arrived. Once CBDCs are installed, it’s game over.
Well we're not doing anything about it. We ought to be coordinating something together, some exchange system that we design ourselves and which has already been designed many times. We need to start seeking because when it comes in, they're going to pull the rug out from under us and money will be worthless. I am sure they are transferring funds right now as we lament.
Elaborate?
CBDC are Central Bank Digital Currencies. In our present age of surveillance, control, and AI, it puts immense power and control in "authorities" that run the CBDC system (be it states or private corporations or combinations of both).
The most accurate and stripped-down definition of a CBDC, once the commercial smokescreen is removed, is that it is no longer a currency or a means of payment—it is a centralized, programmable system for the digital allocation of resources.
With a CBDC, you own nothing. You merely have a license to use the state's digital resources as long as you comply with the conditions attached to your digital identity wallet (there are variations on its implementation in different countries).
Calling a CBDC a "digital currency" is therefore the system's linguistic smokescreen to convince the public that it is merely an upgrade of existing money. In reality, it is presented here as a digital locking mechanism that makes human survival entirely conditional upon digital compliance.
Thanks Chang, that sounds seriously fucked up. Just subbed to your substack so I can keep an eye on it.
It's one more way that TPTB (the powers that be) can assert control and compliance over people (though the tech and finance industries love to gaslight the public about CBDCs.).
It is something worth fighting against, just as the use of AI by corporations and the state is worth fighting against.
Checking to make sure that Palestinians do not say naughty things about Israel while every effffing day they see their people killed.
Fear not, it will have the opposite effect. All of this attempt at AI manipulation just destroys faith and trust in AI and makes most people concerned. The harder they push it the greater the resistance.
Nah. Most people are clueless and easily molded.
Many, possibly most but a large minority are not and never underestimate the innate self-serving common sense survival instinct of numans.
Well what do you do to share awareness? This is up to all of us.
All of this is coming to the West and it will be used on us next.
Israel is the lawless laboratory.
Gaza is the testing ground
Has been for many decades. Check out the book by Antony Loewenstein called "The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121075698-the-palestine-laboratory).
What you see ICE doing in the US is a DIRECT product and visceral example of this.
Thanx
I will truly enjoy watching what happens when they try to pull this shit on my students - especially the theatre students. Believe me, they take no shit at all from figures of authority as it is. It's going to be hysterical. (Side note: one of my Grade 9 kids - 14 years old - managed to hack the entire Administration LAN. Everything. Principal and VP accounts? Done. All teacher evaluations, all disciplinary records...They came down to our black box space to take him away, and he just turned around and smiled at us. Ciao ciao 👋)
That is absolutely brilliant! This is what young ones can do now they are well-versed in programming. I love hearing about things like this and want to see it done more often. I bet that's why they stalked Julian Assange. Can't let anyone getting away with that now can they? But young ones are seeing what's going on and they're savvy.
May be the weirdest thing I have ever read. No author of fiction could imagine a charity would do such a thing.
How much more evil can the israeli minds become. To pretend they are donating to help Palestinian children that their current military are killing daily for sport, and then claiming the children should be smiling and peaceful, and not say anything even slightly derogatory about the people occupying their country for almost eighty years and murdering them every damn day. Is that not satisfying enough. They now want to eavesdrop with their little machines in case the teachers say anything bad about their murderers, in case it teaches the children to hate the facist psychopaths that are still killing all their friends and families?
What an evil bunch of hippocritical bastards. How many Palestinians have they maimed for life both physically and mentally and still not satisfied in their hellush acts?
If there were the slightest bit of justice, these surveillance devices should be placed in every home of every illegal occupier, and their "non-working, living free with everything paid for by American taxpayers without their agreement. And that means, not having to work, given a home free, food, energy, TV, clothes, health care all free". These illegal settlers, who obviously have way too much time on their hands which they wouldn't have in the country they should be living in, should be wearing ankle bracelets that show what lazy thieving bastards they are, instead of being allowed to menace and steal everything from Palestinians. They should be on chain gangs rebuilding all of the destroyed homes and infrastructure in all of Palestine or, they could sod off back where they came from and work for a living like everyone else.
Time for a break in to where these AI monstrosities and relieve the money-greedy interlopers of yet another factory of humanity's destruction.
Israel really needs to grow up. They have a thing about speech, like they can't stand being critiqued but of course it's ok for them to critique others and to even act as executioners to little children. Oh those Israeli's - they spend so much time slamming the dignity of others when all the while their reputation in the world sinks. No wonder they were kicked out of so many countries.
Surely they would set this surveillance up in Zionist Israeli classrooms first of all as the way to show how it works - the songs being sung and histories being studied - all love and peace - surely! (NOT.) I feel ill.
AI indeed makes us dumber and lazier. Before, we had to look up things ourselves, now AI is doing everything for us. I wonder what the generation will look like that grows up with this.
CJ>>"We’ve got to find some way to stop these freaks."
There is a way. But for this to succeed, good people have to be willing to do bad things for good reasons. All significant revolutions and uprisings in history (including decolonial and anti-imperialist ones) involved bloodshed and loss of life. I doubt the present fight we find ourselves in will be any different...
Insane, but totally figures. I'm a qualified secondary history teacher. I don't even bother anymore. Education systems in the West are a joke that really isn't funny. The secondary system in Australia is an abortion.
https://bendebney.info/facts-about-western-sydney-university/