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  • I got the sarcasm. I was just stating that in addition to whatever information they get from notes, I worry they will target people for even allowing their children to receive or seek gender affirming care.

    Like they have been arguing for years that allowing your child to begin hormonal therapy before 18 equates to child abuse (while also arguing physical and psychological abuse is your unquestionable God given right as a parent).

    And I agree, they start with a focus on hormone blockers to get their foot in the door bc they know their base will support that.

    Then it very easily becomes oh well we also need to have access to all the information about any child that has seen a doctor for things like ADHD.

    When I say I’m beyond not thinking worst case scenario, I just mean I don’t think there’s really a scenario where this is somehow something everyone shouldn’t be worried about. Even if your child isn’t trans.

    There’s always a canary in the coal mine that becomes the scapegoat they use to get their foot in the door. Somehow people didn’t see that was the case with immigrants despite all the warning signs. They argued shit like this was overblown fear mongering.

    Now they’re moving the goal post a little further, and I don’t give a fuck if people want to tell me I’m crazy or fear mongering. They don’t fucking deserve the benefit of the doubt. They never did.




  • In some states (like the one where I live) there are laws that make it illegal to not disclose your HIV positive status to a partner and it’s punishable with time in prison. It is very much a holdover from the HIV=gay so pretend targeting gays will eradicate HIV.

    There are literally people who have written contracts they get every new partner to sign before sex bc they worry about the law being used to target them.

    Access to medications like Prep keeps viral load low enough so that it’s undetectable. When the virus is undetectable it becomes untransmissible.

    Still you have cases where people who have been unable to transmit the virus for a decade, face jail time simply for being HIV positive.

    Trump wants to block access to these medications. You also have cuts being made to free clinics that provide testing for STDs.

    So under Trump you will have people who are HIV+ unable to access medications that prevent transmission, you will have increased prevalence of circulating HIV in populations going undetected, and you also have Trump saying he wants to reduce funding for harm reduction interventions for addiction (like needle exchanges).

    As HIV epidemics begin to re-emerge (especially in poorer areas with fewer privately funded resources available to the public) you will also have crackdowns and arrests of people using these laws that target HIV status.










  • Palantir creates platforms for data.

    This is creating a platform that allows somebody to access every piece of data in one centralized location.

    So example, when somebody is determining your social security payment (if that even exists in the future) they(or more likely AI) might be basing that decision not just on data relevant to income but also on something like a personal social credit score based on every piece of available government data related to a person over their entire lifetime.

    Did you get flagged as suspicious while flying bc of 9/11. Did something end up on your record by complete mistake? In this centralized data base you could have all kinds of real and incorrect details associated with you (or even other people like friends, family, neighbors, coworkers) used to discriminate against you. Data becomes destiny.

    Not to mention if they integrate it with these live facial recognition surveillance networks, something they caught you doing on camera without your knowledge could be used to make decisions.



  • How?

    They’ve literally been asking for more crime cameras be installed to fight crime since a resident was murdered. “It’s not in the budget.”

    More on duty police? “Sorry, it’s just not in the budget.”

    Live facial recognition tracking system that doesn’t exist anywhere else and can be used to collect data and create a giant AI database with data from every civilian it tracks. That data can then coincidentally be used to train AI models and enhance profits for companies like Palantir.

    “Yeah we should be able to swing that in the budget.”

    Basically the exact same story is happening in the U.S. city where I live. We have a boil water advisory every other week, we have terrible roads, and awful schools but somehow the city has the budget to update our cameras so we will become the first city to test this out.

    After Palantir already secretly used our city to create and test their predictive policing model (which still fucking sucks btw).

    https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predictive-policing-tool-new-orleans-nopd

    Oh also Palantir happens to be currently working with the U.S. government to create a giant database of every citizen.

    https://www.mercurynews.com/?p=12164379%2F