"We’re going to have supervision," says billionaire Oracle co-founder Ellison.
    • biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone
      0·
      2 months ago

      I saw a sign on each street light on a bike path in my town that said “these street lights use aluminium cabling because the copper was stolen”.

      Your plan will work.

  • dotslashme@infosec.pubEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Why do we even care what these tech-bro ass hats think? We already collectively know his vision apply only to “poor people”.

        • mayooooo@beehaw.org
          0·
          2 months ago

          Until you stop billionaires from happening you won’t solve anything. Remove the source of all of the shit and things will get better

          • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
            0·
            2 months ago

            Great way to rid yourself of responsibility. Sadly, nothing ever got achieved by being smart. Doing things is what is necessary.

            Therefore yes, billionaires must go, of course. But they wont go until we take action. So my point still stands. Read the book.

            • mayooooo@beehaw.org
              0·
              2 months ago

              I’m not sure how you can spread the responsibility so far down? I’m at fault while I have almost no power? I’m not saying do nothing, I’m saying do the thing that matters, like remove these cunts from the world. That’s our responsibility as a species if we want to continue living

  • FlashZordon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    He proposed a shitty Art Park on Lanai, the island he bought the majority of, and wanted to set up surveillance to stop “vandals”.

    Worked on the plumbing for the fountains he wanted to building. Those surveillance measures never came to be, yet…

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

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

    The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single corrections officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.

    Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates’ cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times. They are effectively compelled to self-regulation. The architecture consists of a rotunda with an inspection house at its centre. From the centre, the manager or staff are able to watch the inmates. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, and asylums. He devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a panopticon prison, so the term now usually refers to that.

    • frunch@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 months ago

      Well how else is he going to fortify his ridiculous amount of wealth from the unwashed masses?

  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    When you can get ticketed for speeding while your car is on the back of a tow truck:
    https://www.the-sun.com/motors/11008328/photo-towing-van-speeding-ticket-evidence/

    Or a red light traffic ticket when your car was stolen:
    https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-red-light-ticket-camera-illinois-car-stolen-theft/11677595/

    And the police/courts won’t help you because it’s a problem from the private company running the cameras… I think we can see where some sort of AI backed camera network is headed.

    A bandaid to fix this might be to setup an easy way for someone to dispute the charge. For every day that it takes the company to review the dispute, they would need to pay back the accused the same amount that they are charging them (with a minimum of paying them back twice the amount of the fine).

    Even then, I’d rather cameras not be used in this way at all.

  • criticalthreshold@lemmy.ml
    0·
    2 months ago

    If it results in innocent people in LA not getting fucking stabbed trying to ride the metro, it’ll be good.

    Otherwise this is just another fat government contract waiting for a tech bro to get their hands on.