You probably thought things couldn’t get more exciting when the government made you scan your face, passport, and email address book so you could watch online porn, but then it announced digital IDs that would enable a centralised database containing every piece of information about your life.
So glad I’ve left the UK… I’m sure Greece and other EU countries will follow suit, after all it is a global Western vision, but we’re not there yet… I smell a revolution coming….
Substack just asked for a verification code to write this comment... What I was wondering about is what happens when the flood of refugees will start to arrive to Northern Yemen.
I think/hope/pray that the plot has lost/is losing the UK? Saw this video today about the ID /Brit card being the first push/sting to draw out the opposition, after which the opposition will not be so opposed to an alternative just as bad. Watch and BE ON YOUR GUARD seems to be the message https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amK1byweaf8
It will be interesting to see how the REAL Criminals (You know the Politician's, Mexican/South American Drug Cartels, Computer Hackers, and all the Organized Crime Groups from Different Countries) respond and Comply to these new policies!! The question is who will receive this data and to what extent will it be used? What are our Constitutional rights (Right to Privacy Laws) for collecting this data or do we not have a U.S. Constitution anymore? It will be interesting to see what happens in the coming days!! I will say this RESIST, RESIST, RESIST!
This reads like a press release for Black Mirror season 8 written by The Onion. “Brilliantly, digital IDs will be rolled out to children” is such a perfect line because it’s exactly how they’d sell it. Surveillance as enrichment. Pre-crime as public safety. BritCard as a hug from Big Brother.
Had tech like this been available during my childhood/ early teens -- a record of my inner-city hooliganism -- I would've never been admitted to any university, much less granted credentials allowing me to later influence other young minds. Some of my more-authoritarian ex-students might therefore shout "Bravo, Mr. Smarmer". We need to remember that not all of this caca falls on deaf ears.
I remember in the years 1968-75 when the truly wonderful, groundbreakingly diverse, and empowering Open University movement was founded, by teachers and students who had become disenchanted with the corporate/defense-connected university bloc, many of whom were barred from it due to draft evasion, protesting, or finding (semi-legal) ways to get around the system. This is rough right now, and we need to fight and to think ahead, but I have some faith. Creative minds gonna Create.
Geez, what a great recollection, thank you. Those are pretty much exactly the years I remember as being most essential to the development of my sociopolitical views.
It was a big advantage. Most music today sucks. They need another cosmic infusion of inspiration (astrologers say we had one). I truly believe the brilliant music powered our movement.
And without Googlemaps we developed our spatial skills. I remember traveling around the country (and the world), stopping at a new town and “asking around” where the local health food store or coffee place was to read their bulletin board and find out what was going on, and then ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS! We met people that way. There was a lot more social intercourse then. 😉
No Google? Best watch out, you're treading the line of being labeled a dinosaur. I recall having to make the dreaded walk across the street to the Harvard Med School Library stacks to find a scientific paper I wanted to read. What a travail. Having to detach my butt from my office chair, breathe some outside air, and submit to the distinctly evocative aroma of old bound journals; what a cross to bear. And I might even have encountered a colleague or two along the way, even conversed with some stranger out on the street. What a horror. Ain't life stuck to "devices" so much better?
A government that can't solve a pothole problem is going to keep sensitive data safe? The system is broken. What Britain needs most, is for Britons to realise that incompetence in government is no longer just a 'foreign Johnny' phenomenon. Kid Starver is just the latest proof.
I don't think you would need to wear a mask in your home unless you are in front of a camera on your phone or computer or whatever. If you are going to mask your identity then you would have to wear the same mask from the first time you "register" and every time you use the biometric/facial recognition ID. Most newer TVs have cameras just like all your other devices. If you want to maintain your identity at home then you have to cover up the cameras but they will probably start making that a "violation". You would also need to wear the mask every time you go outside. This is not tenable. We are going to either have to comply or get shut out of society. The Beast System is already fully functioning and integrated into everything everywhere. The only way to do without it is to go live like the Amish or... bring it all down and end up living like the Amish.
I really fucking hate this timeline 🫠
Is the sarcasm level way above your pay grade? (just jesting..)
Jesus it keeps getting worse and worse
Or better and better. If you’re a despot.
Wow, Laura! That is some genius dystopian fiction! It takes real imagination to make up stuff that scary!
You DID make that up, right?
Right?
right?
So glad I’ve left the UK… I’m sure Greece and other EU countries will follow suit, after all it is a global Western vision, but we’re not there yet… I smell a revolution coming….
Yes you can run but you can’t hide. Until you turn around and face it. Then stop it.
One man's revolution is another man's Butlerian jihad. Maybe the Luddites and Amish are not so extreme...
Ate you sure what you're smelling isn't actually just even *more* compliance?
Substack just asked for a verification code to write this comment... What I was wondering about is what happens when the flood of refugees will start to arrive to Northern Yemen.
Substack does that quite often. Not to worry.
Your other sentence…yeah, worry.
I wonder how long till they break Substack the way they did with Telegram...
I’m sure it’s underway. There have been a number of changes lately, including that stupid verification code.
As you say Laura, the Epstein files work well on the Politicians so now the Devil IsRael wants to expand it to all humans with the Britcard.
The Devil IsRael really is the Antichrist.
The UK has lost the plot.
I think/hope/pray that the plot has lost/is losing the UK? Saw this video today about the ID /Brit card being the first push/sting to draw out the opposition, after which the opposition will not be so opposed to an alternative just as bad. Watch and BE ON YOUR GUARD seems to be the message https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amK1byweaf8
It will be interesting to see how the REAL Criminals (You know the Politician's, Mexican/South American Drug Cartels, Computer Hackers, and all the Organized Crime Groups from Different Countries) respond and Comply to these new policies!! The question is who will receive this data and to what extent will it be used? What are our Constitutional rights (Right to Privacy Laws) for collecting this data or do we not have a U.S. Constitution anymore? It will be interesting to see what happens in the coming days!! I will say this RESIST, RESIST, RESIST!
You're right! All we need to do is copy what the maffia does.
Now I can’t get the image of Starmer’s “Oh!” Face out of my mind as he wanks to a nude of Maggie T.
This reads like a press release for Black Mirror season 8 written by The Onion. “Brilliantly, digital IDs will be rolled out to children” is such a perfect line because it’s exactly how they’d sell it. Surveillance as enrichment. Pre-crime as public safety. BritCard as a hug from Big Brother.
Laura, love the prince Andrew line.
Had tech like this been available during my childhood/ early teens -- a record of my inner-city hooliganism -- I would've never been admitted to any university, much less granted credentials allowing me to later influence other young minds. Some of my more-authoritarian ex-students might therefore shout "Bravo, Mr. Smarmer". We need to remember that not all of this caca falls on deaf ears.
I remember in the years 1968-75 when the truly wonderful, groundbreakingly diverse, and empowering Open University movement was founded, by teachers and students who had become disenchanted with the corporate/defense-connected university bloc, many of whom were barred from it due to draft evasion, protesting, or finding (semi-legal) ways to get around the system. This is rough right now, and we need to fight and to think ahead, but I have some faith. Creative minds gonna Create.
Geez, what a great recollection, thank you. Those are pretty much exactly the years I remember as being most essential to the development of my sociopolitical views.
Moi aussi!
And we did it without cell phones or the internet!
Hell yeah. But we did have Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix!
It was a big advantage. Most music today sucks. They need another cosmic infusion of inspiration (astrologers say we had one). I truly believe the brilliant music powered our movement.
Absolutely!
And without Googlemaps we developed our spatial skills. I remember traveling around the country (and the world), stopping at a new town and “asking around” where the local health food store or coffee place was to read their bulletin board and find out what was going on, and then ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS! We met people that way. There was a lot more social intercourse then. 😉
No Google? Best watch out, you're treading the line of being labeled a dinosaur. I recall having to make the dreaded walk across the street to the Harvard Med School Library stacks to find a scientific paper I wanted to read. What a travail. Having to detach my butt from my office chair, breathe some outside air, and submit to the distinctly evocative aroma of old bound journals; what a cross to bear. And I might even have encountered a colleague or two along the way, even conversed with some stranger out on the street. What a horror. Ain't life stuck to "devices" so much better?
A government that can't solve a pothole problem is going to keep sensitive data safe? The system is broken. What Britain needs most, is for Britons to realise that incompetence in government is no longer just a 'foreign Johnny' phenomenon. Kid Starver is just the latest proof.
What Britain needs most, is for Britons to get a 1st and 2nd Amendment... by any means necessary.
They can have ours once we're done with it.
I've been trying to get my wife to either watch the film of , or read, Orwell's "1984", for ages.
Thankfully now, I can stop nagging her to do so as she can just live the experience herself.
How thoughtful of Government to assist me in this matter.
Time to get a new face or will the cosmetic surgeons tell on you?
Custom Mask With Face Personalized
https://a.co/d/0bfXMDp
Hmmm.
Question is: Do you have to wear these masks in your home?
Can facial recognition push through the mask?
A simple camera probably not but most phones already have infrared.
Sorry I do not understand this reply.
I don't think you would need to wear a mask in your home unless you are in front of a camera on your phone or computer or whatever. If you are going to mask your identity then you would have to wear the same mask from the first time you "register" and every time you use the biometric/facial recognition ID. Most newer TVs have cameras just like all your other devices. If you want to maintain your identity at home then you have to cover up the cameras but they will probably start making that a "violation". You would also need to wear the mask every time you go outside. This is not tenable. We are going to either have to comply or get shut out of society. The Beast System is already fully functioning and integrated into everything everywhere. The only way to do without it is to go live like the Amish or... bring it all down and end up living like the Amish.
I am old. Please explain: IF I put on a rubber mask does this mean I will not be detected by facial recognition. This is an easy question.
And the real beauty of it all is we have no access to what these Po£oniU$€s are up to behind the arras.