Dec 23, 2022·edited Dec 23, 2022Liked by Dan Fournier
Back in 2018 when I learned Zuboff's book had been published, I asked Bishop's University Library to look in to acquiring it (I have community cardholder status), which they ultimately did in short order.
After slogging through its 550 pages and 100 pages of notes I was left dumbstruck at the time, and I've since come to realize that the developments she covered in that book are now almost quaint & obsolete given how the digital control grid has accelerated since that time a short four years ago.
It's ironic, incidentally, that when Covid broke on to the scene, Bishops became Digital Gulag Central, with its own campus passport, going a step above and beyond the Legault regime's diktats. They even put out a video in the summer of 2021 - a strange piece of propaganda involving carrot & stick, seduction and coercion - in order to get their students vaxxed up and well on their way to myocarditis nirvana. Needless to say I will never set foot on that campus, or indeed most any campus, again. How easily they became institutional agents of tyranny!
It's really worth a couple of minutes of your time to watch this - just make sure you haven't eaten a meal preceding its viewing.
Second, are you at all familiar with the work of Alison McDowell at "Wrench In The Gears"? She is a researcher that has probably done more deep dives into the Digital Panopticon/ Gulag than anyone I can think of. Try this article from April 2020 entitled "Will Covid-19 certificates trigger biometric digital identity roll out?".
Back in 2018 when I learned Zuboff's book had been published, I asked Bishop's University Library to look in to acquiring it (I have community cardholder status), which they ultimately did in short order.
After slogging through its 550 pages and 100 pages of notes I was left dumbstruck at the time, and I've since come to realize that the developments she covered in that book are now almost quaint & obsolete given how the digital control grid has accelerated since that time a short four years ago.
It's ironic, incidentally, that when Covid broke on to the scene, Bishops became Digital Gulag Central, with its own campus passport, going a step above and beyond the Legault regime's diktats. They even put out a video in the summer of 2021 - a strange piece of propaganda involving carrot & stick, seduction and coercion - in order to get their students vaxxed up and well on their way to myocarditis nirvana. Needless to say I will never set foot on that campus, or indeed most any campus, again. How easily they became institutional agents of tyranny!
It's really worth a couple of minutes of your time to watch this - just make sure you haven't eaten a meal preceding its viewing.
Bishop's University "Moments Like These" : https://youtu.be/Tx3RmGEiip0
Second, are you at all familiar with the work of Alison McDowell at "Wrench In The Gears"? She is a researcher that has probably done more deep dives into the Digital Panopticon/ Gulag than anyone I can think of. Try this article from April 2020 entitled "Will Covid-19 certificates trigger biometric digital identity roll out?".
https://wrenchinthegears.com/2020/04/08/will-covid-19-certificates-trigger-biometric-digital-identity-roll-out/
She was, and continues to be far ahead of the curve in outlining our trajectory into a digital dystopia.
Last: did you read Tessa Lena's substack post from this morning? Here it is for your edification:
Zombies of the Algorithm: A Soul in Prison - "First, they came for the unvaccinated..."
https://tessa.substack.com/p/zombies-of-algorithm
This is but one current example of the nightmare coalescing around us while "the citizens" chew their digital cud.
Cheers!...I guess?