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The year is 2036, when dialed up to maximum space saving, the latest generation of smart phones now turn camera pictures to a textual description and later when
by st_goliath 1mo ago
The year is 2036, when dialed up to maximum space saving, the latest generation of smart phones now turn camera pictures to a textual description and later when you want to view them, re-generate them on the fly using a text2image model. Not that "saving space" really means something, the phones refuse to unlock if they don't have an internet connection and store all your data on multiple cloud servers anyway (one for each five eye country).
- inigyou 1mo agoIt's already 14 eyes, and it'll be 195 eyes by then
- xnickb 1mo ago194. That one country will not be invited.
- bflesch 1mo agoIt's one Monarch, but many eyes. All information flows to the Crown.
- aljgz 1mo agoThat one monarch is not a person or organization of people. It's an aggregation of all the loosely connected ones, competing on some things, coordinated on others, but you, the end user are never the beneficiary. That, my old school human friend, is the one commandment no one challenges. With all those players locked into a Nash equilibrium, no one can do anything about this, while all humans complain that things are not the way they should be.
- bflesch 1mo agoThe constitutional monarchies respect each others' land ownership and colonies, but in terms of actual power the British Crown dwarfs everything, especially if one correctly recognizes the USA as their vassal state. Outside of this there are few strongmen-led states of non-royal blood, of which China is the most important one. And then there is Switzerland, which is part of the democratically-pacified buffer zone around Liechtenstein ;) Let's hope the people at the top don't become too crazy.
- pjc50 1mo agoThis is conspiracy theory territory. The USA is not a vassal state of the crown in any way at all. I just note that one of the few people to face fallout from the Epstein scandal is Prince Andrew, because he's not inside the US unaccountability protection field.
- inigyou 1mo agoThe British crown is powerless apart from their money. The USA is a vassal state of Israel, not Britain.
- BLanen 1mo agoIt won't even have a camera. Could just infer from location, time, and orientation data.
- danillonunes 1mo agoThe ultimate image compression algorithm: The txt