Thursday, March 22, 2018

Book Of Faces

Isn't this what they did in the Roman Coliseum Days?
I've been working on a pretty massive painting, and I have other projects going on, it's been a  busy winter. Which has kept me from being on social media.
After reading about Cambridge Analytica, I'm glad.
Most people who read this blog, know I don't vote.
I don't participate in a system that gives you the likes of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, then your told to hold your nose and pull a lever.
Nope. I've got better things to do.
We've been told that Russia interfered with our election, now we're told Facebook did too, via Steve Bannon and the Mercers.
We've been data mined and Russia hacked our election.
So, if all this is true, why do we have an NSA?
 I mean do they just spy on Americans?
Aren't they supposed to be protecting us from these situations?
What about Homeland Security?
Mark Zuckerberg is even warning that "someone is meddling with upcoming midterm elections"
Oh, I'll just bet.
Mark Zuckerberg sold everyone out a long time ago.
 Facebook made billions from giving app developers access to Facebook's data base.
 It's a tool used by local law enforcement, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, Homeland Security.
There's no privacy settings on there, it's crazy anyone would believe it.
It's all just a big "mistake" that your information got hacked and tracked and God knows what all.
Seriously, with all the data collecting the NSA does on a daily basis, I doubt Americans know or even care that they basically have no privacy on the internet.
We have been conditioned to accept this kind of intrusion.
In other words, we've all been hacked.
Don't even for a minute believe that the Trump campaign via Cambridge Analytica was the first to use this technique, because the Obama campaigns did it too. I say campaigns because the article says, Facebook was used for the first time for political purposes in 2012, but who knows how long it's been going on?
Probably as soon as Facebook was introduced on the internet.
"Facebook is now ubiquitous," says the digital analyst from Google who joined the Obama campaign in 2008, "Whichever candidate uses Facebook the most effectively could win the war."
 There you have it.
While we are liking on Facebook, what is going on behind us?
Tomorrow congress has to pass a spending bill to stop yet another government shutdown. If they pass it, we won't have to worry again until Sept 30th! Yipee! Can't these lazy bastards fund anything for more than 6 months? Oh wait a minute, yes they can! The military war machine! That will never shut down. Military spending will increase by $160 BILLION.
Thank God, because I was really worried we wouldn't have enough drones or bombs.
Drones are Trumps big jobs program, he thinks it's a good idea to push lethal drones, so he's going to relax the "rules" about who we sell them too.
Like we've got any moral high ground when it comes to killing people, what "rules"?
It's a really great feeling knowing Trump is Making America Great Again, with drones and tweets.
 Like him on Facebook.





2 comments:

  1. I am not active on facebook, but I have really wanted to shut down my account this week.

    Granted, I only use fb to see that family and old friends are alive, but there's got to be a line, and we're long past it.

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  2. Shutting down Facebook is only one of many corporations spying and data mining. If you like your Facebook, you can keep your Facebook. We're being spied on all the time, it ain't just Facebook.

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