If you're looking for a more optimistic take, read <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=5728">Hold strong: The cruelty increases with desperation</a>. The video below is by the same guy---Hasan Piker---as in the other article but with a much less hopeful take this time. This video describes the current state of things: that we are cogs in a well-oiled, rent-extraction machine. We have to wake up to it, use our agency, and stop believing all of the bullshit. <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqvxhp9j1dg" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/Kqvxhp9j1dg" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="HasanAbi" caption="you think you have rights?"> <bq>Every single American is being surveilled at every single moment of the day. How is it not illegal or goes against our rights? <b>Dude, you're an American. Do you not understand? We're nothing. We are peasants who have been deluded into thinking that we have any kind of self-importance whatsoever.</b> This is what I keep repeating over and over again. And people seemingly do not understand. They do not understand. You do not understand. We do not have rights. <b>You know who has rights? Corporations have rights. They have the right to do whatever the fuck they want. Okay?</b> They have a right to get the bag by any means necessary. <img attachment="neo_wakes_up.webp" align="right" caption="Neo wakes up">We're just running around thinking like, "Oh, we got autonomy. We do whatever we want." Yeah, good luck, dude. <b>Every single aspect of your life, whether you are aware of it or not, is being commoditized by these AI tech companies.</b> This is quite literally just a mass surveillance operation, openly traded on the market. Like <b>all your movements are tracked and they're sold to data brokers.</b> They're sold to companies that want to surveil you for one reason or another to sell you more. <b>Law enforcement has access to this. Your landlord has access to it.</b> <b>We're literally lab rats, brother.</b></bq>