2026-02-22 10:00 UTC
@etsyy@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
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To id people consistently (to prevent fraud), you'll need biometrics and/or some kind of central authority. And that's where the id breaks down into dystopia.
failure
in this design id becomes power, and id-ing people is not free. This means that identifying authorities have power over people, and whenever this happens, superiority and exclusion are more or less natural consequences.
I found that this idea was most appealing to fascists, for entirely the wrong reasons…
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@iwein@mas.to 2026-02-22 10:08
@etsyy@mastodon.catgirl.cloud I even ended up being invited to a meeting with a guy that publicly said the Neurenberg trials were illegitimate, while his friends were telling me it was a great investible idea, we should just nix the UBI from it and not deploy it in Africa. Reads like bad fiction novel, but actually happened. So yeah, I felt rightfully stupid for wasting my time on that, fried my brain, and became the crazy commie activist idiot I am now 🙏 (The End)