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" 67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report. " " U.S. and Iran pause fighting to give peace talks ‘space.’ Here’s where negotiations stand " " Inside Florida's $85M James Bond-inspired mansion built to 'make a billionaire's jaw drop' " What a rotten #capitalist system. "Everything goes" and ironically, everybody who has something meaningful to give back to society is broke at the same time because it is that minimalist and decadent capitalist system with its stupid monetary policies that refuses to budge for us. The lunatics leading this Ship of Fools have spent so much money on war and funding the billionaires' projects (DoD and military spending) while the companies have invested so much in surveillance capitalism to make the billionaires wealthy it's amazing we still have anything left of the incredible shrinking middle class. The President of the United States doesn't want you to read the part below about what surveillance capitalism is, because that type of capitalism is how our fat lunatic and leader made over two billion dollars this year just from computers minting cryptocoins. DO THIS. BUY THAT. THINK THIS WAY. HEY, NO THANKS, CRAZY BLONDE GRANDPA. TAKE YOUR PILLS, GO TO BED, AND SOMEBODY MAKE DAMN SURE THAT THIS BELLICOSE MAN IS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR THE NUCLEAR FOOTBALL OR SATCHEL WITH ITS ALL-IMPORTANT LAUNCH CODES. Here is the core idea of surveillance capitalism, according to Claude dot ai. ------ It describes an economic system where companies generate profit primarily by collecting and monetizing personal data — often gathered without people fully understanding or consenting to how it's used. The basic pattern: Extraction – Companies harvest data from your behavior: clicks, searches, location, purchases, even how long you pause on a video. Analysis – That raw #data gets processed to predict and influence future behavior (what you'll buy, click, watch, or believe). Monetization – These predictions are sold, mainly to advertisers, but also to other buyers interested in shaping behavior.