The U.S. Department of Defense quickly viewed biometric data and what it called “identity dominance” as the cornerstone of multiple counterterrorism and counterinsurgency strategies. Identity dominance means being able to keep track of people the military considers a potential threat regardless of aliases, and ultimately denying organizations the ability to use anonymity to hide their activities.

By 2004, thousands of U.S. military personnel had been trained to collect biometric data to support the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. By 2007, U.S. forces were collecting biometric data primarily through mobile devices such as the Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) and Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE). BAT includes a laptop, fingerprint reader, iris scanner and camera. HIIDE is a single small device that incorporates a fingerprint reader, iris scanner and camera. Users of these devices can collect iris and fingerprint scans and facial photos, and match them to entries in military databases and biometric watchlists.

https://theconversation.com/afghanistans-taliban-reportedly-have-control-of-us-biometric-devices-a-lesson-in-life-and-death-consequences-of-data-privacy-166465

This article is more relevant in the context of the latest declarations of Antonio Guterrez:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/change-course-now-humanity-has-missed-15c-climate-target-says-un-head

Se the dabate here: https://slrpnk.net/post/29426682

The good news is that it is still something we can deal with. I mean, to just give up is to let the current “owners of the world win” ( billionaires and gang).

The rings are really beautiful

Ok, but how to use it?

I’m trying to get into self hosting but I’m really completely lost. Do you have some advices about where to start from?

UBI?

But when?

Cool af

Some countries want to sell the image of “China is the absolute evil”, thus from this logic everything “good” must equal something very evil.

Cool idea

Says the bot

Why DeepSeek?

Yes, you’re right about restricted content from Google and other search companies; but the point that I was trying to make is that if we rely on AI as a source of information, it will become more and more difficult to obtain the primary font of that information.

There’s another side to that too: AI can “poison the well”, that is, create 24/7 misinformation and spread it on the web so that searching becomes unpractical, and then the AI can be sold as the answer to that problem.

I mean, companies are putting a ton of money in this AI hype, it’s almost "too big to fail ". These same companies will begin to destroy and create problems in our current infrastructure so that they can sell the solution.

Thank you BYD!

Muito interessante, valeu!

New rfk jr companions (possibly NSFW)

https://youtu.be/kswcYfOtosk

I didn’t know about this GRO luggage. It seems amazing

“Just buy a new computer bro; hear me out, Windows 11 is what you need, j-ust j-ust justone more computer.”

How about 0.9%?