As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their backyards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
Daniel Boguslaw - May 26, 2026 – Security
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Technocrats Using AI To Disappear Dissent Completely
Anonymity is not native to our species. And it goes against the nature of our species.
This is one facet in particular of human nature that we, modern city dwellers, lose sight of.
Anonymity is only a few centuries old, and only in the very largest of urban communities.
For 99.99+% of the Human Experience, there has been no anonymity.
I see mass surveillance as a 21st century technological correction to another one of the age-old evils of agricultural civilization, in this case anonymity.
I see mass surveillance building upon the success story of the labor saving & mass communication 19th century 1st Industrial Revolution technologies, which were Mankind’s initial breakthrough from the age-old evils of agricultural civilization 👍🙂
Camouflaged by “Covid-19,” an undeclared global class war was initiated in 2020, aimed at replacing liberal democracy with technocracy, a novel, biodigital form of totalitarianism. The opening campaign involved the largest psychological operation in history, intended to demoralise, disorientate, and debilitate the public. This volume deals with the application of shock and stress, trauma-based mind control, the use of fear and threat, cognitive attack, weaponised deception, and techniques for turning society against itself."
"Academia's fear of taboo topics; the deep state; good vs. evil; left vs. right; revolution from above vs. below; the failure of the political class; capitalism as a social system; global inequality"
"Police and private companies in the UK have been quietly rolling out facial recognition surveillance cameras, taking ‘faceprints’ of millions of people — often without you knowing about it. This is an enormous expansion of the surveillance state — and it sets a dangerous precedent worldwide. We must stop this dangerously authoritarian surveillance now."
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We are going to stop the "public private partnerships" in establishing Orwell`s Dystopia.
We urgently need to have a public discussion on widespread facial recognition indeed. In fact, it has direct implications on 4th and 5th amendment rights, which need to be clarified.
Otherwise, our pastures' gates may indeed on longer open , as I forewarned a few months ago:
Having facial recognition technology, not to mention all the other components of AI, in the hands of the likes of Kim Jong Un is horrifying because there are so many Kim Jong Un wannabe's.
TL/DR - skip to the GigaPan camera links, check out the detail yourself, fifteen-year-old technology, its exponentially better now. Also be sure to click the imgflip link for quick visualization of the level of detail following inset after inset to original.
On with the show for anyone whose up for a deep dive, big 'picture' read:
Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison
“We’re going to have supervision,” says billionaire Oracle co-founder Ellison.
FF - We know it's a multi-billion dollar investment effort to integrate AI cameras with all data that's in ALL databases, everywhere. Even your FitBit and Alexa, your car's active listening, eye detection like in the link from above comment. Gym membership. Library. Social Media. Internet surfing. Grocery purchases. Phone calls between family and friends. Ring cameras. All databases, integrated. Worldwide Social Credit Industry. Public-private partnerships, government-corporate. Not conspiracy. Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway's BusinessWire says so:
"The COVID-19 pandemic has facilitated substantial interest in citizen monitoring solutions
--Infrastructure to support social credit systems represents a $16.1B global opportunity by 2026
--Cameras and other optical equipment for social credit systems will reach $723M globally by 2026
--Advanced computing will be used in conjunction with AI to provide nearly flawless identification and tracking
--Social credit systems represent the ability to identify (mostly people but also some "things") and track activities for purposes of grading behaviors and applying "social credit" scoring. A given grading/scoring methodology depends largely on social credit system objectives and metrics.
However, most systems will have socially acceptable behaviour at their core. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity as a combination of government, companies, and society as a whole must determine "good", "bad", and "marginal" behavior within the social credit market.
Beginning as a trend largely orthogonal to public safety and homeland security concerns, the market for social credit system infrastructure will ultimately become a mainstream component of both business and public policy."
FF - Have you heard of GigaPan AI Imaging? Interactive high-density gigapixel imaging technology. Consumer-facing, not military-industrial level sophistication. But still high-tech:
FF - Notice that date. Thirteen years ago. The earliest images on the website go back to 2011. This is 15-year-old imaging technology. In 2011 Apple released its iPhone 4S to much fanfare. Today's iPhone 17 ProMax is the latest technology. Difference in technological performance is exponential. Same has happened in digital imaging. And, remember, this is consumer-facing. Military/Intelligence/LEO-facing is even more advanced.
For kicks and grins I took that GigaPan image from Barcelona in 2013 and zoomed in on some balconies far off in the distance to see what could be seen. Here's a montage of what is viewable on consumer-facing digital imaging cameras using 15yo technology. I zoomed and screenshot to show where this particular balcony I found is on the image:
(I just scrolled down to very bottom left of it, look for the yellow taxi on the road, there's a small black compact car with its sunroof open behind a burgundy SUV with NY license plate that begins with "DNN" - notice the family inside the car laughing it up, and the street surveillance camera just over them. They probably would notice the overhead camera, not the camera taking their picture from across the East River.)
Pair those images (with fifteen years more advanced digital imaging technology) with AI facial recognition software. Here's the consumer versions of AI facial recognition software available. Doxxers use these tools. Military/Intelligence/LEO-grade versions are much more sophisticated, not available to consumers:
Combine the camera technology, the AI facial recognition technology with the Worldwide Social Credit System being developed to "make sure we behave" and it's all there, right now, available to the public-private government/corporate authorities/leaders. But it's missing one big, one very big component to being the dystopian threat to humanity that many of us are uncomfortable with. And that's the ability to capture and crunch ALL that data from ALL those databases with ALL the digital images (and audioprints) to be an ever-present dystopian surveillance threat the alarmists are sounding the alarm over. And that is: AI Data Centers.
AI Data Centers have been deemed so important to our existence to warrant the new construction of and recommissioning of nuclear power plants. Once deemed existential threats to humanity themselves. So important that Bill Gates has come out saying Climate Change fears are overblown, disproportionate to the threat. Think AI Data Centers are that important just to make sure that Amazon and Walmart can better predict their Just-in-Time inventory systems, make them more efficient? Or to let grandma have a digital chat friend after losing grandpa?
Or...AI Data Centers are the necessary component of making all of the data that exists in all of the databases around the nation/world, including digital images like Ring Cameras or Beach/Ski cameras showing conditions (and who is at the beach or skiing) into patterns available for real-time analysis and tracking. AI Data Centers are the necessary component of a Minority Report 24/7 dystopian surveillance state with "Pre-Crime" units authorized to 'police' actions and even thoughts just like in the movie. And this is who is developing the AI Data Center systems and technology. And protocols. And saying what "crimes" are. Not your values, are they?:
This coming for the world. Unless we as free, sovereign human beings refuse to give it our consent. En masse. The writing is on the wall. Our moment is fleeting. If we do not act today, pressure those in power to protect our privacy and our freedoms as being non-negotiable we will rue the future, the lost opportunity we have been called upon to take. It's not just about us. Are we the generation that loses human dignity, freedom? Remember, it's about them:
This incremental and insidious surveillance is a grave threat, not just to criminals and wrongdoers, but also to our collective well being. Not only is it imperfect and makes dire mistakes at times, it also removes the key to democracy, freedom and growth. Whoever controls and uses this tech is in a position of immense dangerous power. We've seen how Governments, institutions, and corporations can be corrupted. They will abuse this for various reasons I'm sure because they are just flawed humans or maybe just algorithms designed by flawed humans.
We are diverging from our natural design and this could be the final straw that brings us down as a prosperous civilization I think. When everybody is controlled, what they can think, what they can believe, what they can do, that's the end of life as we know it.
We make up laws and enforce them for the collective good, but they can be wrong, they can be counterproductive, cruel, destructive. They can be tools for the maniac egos convinced of their power and superiority; people so out of touch with reality that they would enslave us all "for the greater good".
We forget that we're part of a bigger interdependent system of Nature and all life. We're not really separate or above it. If we ignore our true nature and choose to "control and manipulate" our basic design and role in Nature... look out. Viruses mutate and escape when we try to kill them. It's nature's way to return to balance. We're not the masters here. We're more like the viruses.
We ain't seen nuth'n yet! Buckle up Buttercups! If our would-be overlords (you know the ones I'm talking about... the self-appointed masters of society that want to reduce our carbon footprint (read rid the planet of useless eaters) and have dominion over those that are left) have their way, privacy, along with human autonomy, is going the way of the typewriter... and it's coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
"... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled." - Aldous Huxley
Catherine Austin Fitts has been trying to warn America for years that the technocracy was coming and now it is here and the love child of the Trump Administration. Every fence ever built to keep people out has also kept the other side in when the need arose.
You have an even greater risk of being misidentified or profiled by a human police officer with a lot more likelihood of conviction as they are the "trusted" officials in court.
In an ideal world, people would obey the law and policing would not even be needed. Not being seen by a living policeman is not an excuse to break the law. If you have a problem with the law, we have a mechanism to get them changed. You will always have some degree of anonymity by virtue of being one person out of 300 million or so individuals in the country.
The real problem isn't that they are watching. The problem is that as a society, we refuse to remove the people that are causing the problems from society at large. The vast majority of crime is caused by the same small number people who commit crimes over and over and then are released back into society to continue breaking our laws and inflicting us with their abuse..
It really comes down to cost. With ever increasing density in urban areas, that will call for more and more police to even come to parity with the ratio that we have today wich is greatly under staffed. Are you willing to bear an even greater tax burden to hire the police needed? Are you willing to take up the task yourself? Unlike human police, cameras don't need to eat and don't need pension plans.
It is also a double edged sword. It also gives the added benefit that we have the ability to watch the watchers as well. I am a big fan of police body cameras. It is a shame that they can turn them off at will.
This is much like the tale of the mice "belling the cat." It is a great idea, but who is going to do it?
Addendum.
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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their backyards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
Daniel Boguslaw - May 26, 2026 – Security
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Technocrats Using AI To Disappear Dissent Completely
https://patrickwood.substack.com/p/technocrats-using-ai-to-disappear
How can we counter this?
Patrick Wood - May 27, 2026
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... and the related script - now applied to humanity.
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Enemy of the State (film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)
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Next step: full blown paranoia by the "state(s)"
Anonymity is not native to our species. And it goes against the nature of our species.
This is one facet in particular of human nature that we, modern city dwellers, lose sight of.
Anonymity is only a few centuries old, and only in the very largest of urban communities.
For 99.99+% of the Human Experience, there has been no anonymity.
I see mass surveillance as a 21st century technological correction to another one of the age-old evils of agricultural civilization, in this case anonymity.
I see mass surveillance building upon the success story of the labor saving & mass communication 19th century 1st Industrial Revolution technologies, which were Mankind’s initial breakthrough from the age-old evils of agricultural civilization 👍🙂
... no wonder as carefully planned.
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“Covid-19,” Psychological Operations, and the War for Technocracy
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-41850-1
David A. Hughes - April 2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41850-1
"About this book
Camouflaged by “Covid-19,” an undeclared global class war was initiated in 2020, aimed at replacing liberal democracy with technocracy, a novel, biodigital form of totalitarianism. The opening campaign involved the largest psychological operation in history, intended to demoralise, disorientate, and debilitate the public. This volume deals with the application of shock and stress, trauma-based mind control, the use of fear and threat, cognitive attack, weaponised deception, and techniques for turning society against itself."
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Interview with Randy Bock, September 4, 2024
https://dhughes.substack.com/p/interview-with-randy-bock-september
"Academia's fear of taboo topics; the deep state; good vs. evil; left vs. right; revolution from above vs. below; the failure of the political class; capitalism as a social system; global inequality"
David A. Hughes - Nov 09, 2024
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Hence:
Stop Facial Recognition
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-facial-recognition/
"Police and private companies in the UK have been quietly rolling out facial recognition surveillance cameras, taking ‘faceprints’ of millions of people — often without you knowing about it. This is an enormous expansion of the surveillance state — and it sets a dangerous precedent worldwide. We must stop this dangerously authoritarian surveillance now."
-
We are going to stop the "public private partnerships" in establishing Orwell`s Dystopia.
No doubt.
We urgently need to have a public discussion on widespread facial recognition indeed. In fact, it has direct implications on 4th and 5th amendment rights, which need to be clarified.
Otherwise, our pastures' gates may indeed on longer open , as I forewarned a few months ago:
https://www.wildhorsewisdom.xyz/p/we-can-still-open-our-pastures-gates?r=31a4ti&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Having facial recognition technology, not to mention all the other components of AI, in the hands of the likes of Kim Jong Un is horrifying because there are so many Kim Jong Un wannabe's.
TL/DR - skip to the GigaPan camera links, check out the detail yourself, fifteen-year-old technology, its exponentially better now. Also be sure to click the imgflip link for quick visualization of the level of detail following inset after inset to original.
On with the show for anyone whose up for a deep dive, big 'picture' read:
Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison
“We’re going to have supervision,” says billionaire Oracle co-founder Ellison.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
FF - We know it's a multi-billion dollar investment effort to integrate AI cameras with all data that's in ALL databases, everywhere. Even your FitBit and Alexa, your car's active listening, eye detection like in the link from above comment. Gym membership. Library. Social Media. Internet surfing. Grocery purchases. Phone calls between family and friends. Ring cameras. All databases, integrated. Worldwide Social Credit Industry. Public-private partnerships, government-corporate. Not conspiracy. Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway's BusinessWire says so:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211223005270/en/Worldwide-Social-Credit-Industry---Infrastructure-to-Support-Social-Credit-Systems-Represents-a-%2416.1-Billion-Opportunity-by-2026---ResearchAndMarkets.com
(excerpts)
"The COVID-19 pandemic has facilitated substantial interest in citizen monitoring solutions
--Infrastructure to support social credit systems represents a $16.1B global opportunity by 2026
--Cameras and other optical equipment for social credit systems will reach $723M globally by 2026
--Advanced computing will be used in conjunction with AI to provide nearly flawless identification and tracking
--Social credit systems represent the ability to identify (mostly people but also some "things") and track activities for purposes of grading behaviors and applying "social credit" scoring. A given grading/scoring methodology depends largely on social credit system objectives and metrics.
However, most systems will have socially acceptable behaviour at their core. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity as a combination of government, companies, and society as a whole must determine "good", "bad", and "marginal" behavior within the social credit market.
Beginning as a trend largely orthogonal to public safety and homeland security concerns, the market for social credit system infrastructure will ultimately become a mainstream component of both business and public policy."
FF - Have you heard of GigaPan AI Imaging? Interactive high-density gigapixel imaging technology. Consumer-facing, not military-industrial level sophistication. But still high-tech:
https://today.williams.edu/stories/gigapan-big-tech-meets-tiny-view/
This image is the largest gigapixel image you'll find on GigaPan's website:
Suria, Barcelona, Spain, 99.13 gigapixels, April 20, 2013
https://gigapan.com/gigapans/129541
FF - Notice that date. Thirteen years ago. The earliest images on the website go back to 2011. This is 15-year-old imaging technology. In 2011 Apple released its iPhone 4S to much fanfare. Today's iPhone 17 ProMax is the latest technology. Difference in technological performance is exponential. Same has happened in digital imaging. And, remember, this is consumer-facing. Military/Intelligence/LEO-facing is even more advanced.
For kicks and grins I took that GigaPan image from Barcelona in 2013 and zoomed in on some balconies far off in the distance to see what could be seen. Here's a montage of what is viewable on consumer-facing digital imaging cameras using 15yo technology. I zoomed and screenshot to show where this particular balcony I found is on the image:
https://i.imgflip.com/aphu18.jpg
Here's GigaPan's picture of a pot legalization rally in Denver (1.47 gigapixels):
https://gigapan.com/gigapans/128066
Here's GigaPan picture of Colorado Rockies game at Coors Field (0.15 gigapixels):
https://gigapan.com/gigapans/127277
GigaPan picture of Brooklyn from Grand Street in Manhattan (4.39 gigapixels):
https://gigapan.com/gigapans/28033
(I just scrolled down to very bottom left of it, look for the yellow taxi on the road, there's a small black compact car with its sunroof open behind a burgundy SUV with NY license plate that begins with "DNN" - notice the family inside the car laughing it up, and the street surveillance camera just over them. They probably would notice the overhead camera, not the camera taking their picture from across the East River.)
Pair those images (with fifteen years more advanced digital imaging technology) with AI facial recognition software. Here's the consumer versions of AI facial recognition software available. Doxxers use these tools. Military/Intelligence/LEO-grade versions are much more sophisticated, not available to consumers:
https://www.guru99.com/face-recognition-search-engines.html
Combine the camera technology, the AI facial recognition technology with the Worldwide Social Credit System being developed to "make sure we behave" and it's all there, right now, available to the public-private government/corporate authorities/leaders. But it's missing one big, one very big component to being the dystopian threat to humanity that many of us are uncomfortable with. And that's the ability to capture and crunch ALL that data from ALL those databases with ALL the digital images (and audioprints) to be an ever-present dystopian surveillance threat the alarmists are sounding the alarm over. And that is: AI Data Centers.
AI Data Centers have been deemed so important to our existence to warrant the new construction of and recommissioning of nuclear power plants. Once deemed existential threats to humanity themselves. So important that Bill Gates has come out saying Climate Change fears are overblown, disproportionate to the threat. Think AI Data Centers are that important just to make sure that Amazon and Walmart can better predict their Just-in-Time inventory systems, make them more efficient? Or to let grandma have a digital chat friend after losing grandpa?
Or...AI Data Centers are the necessary component of making all of the data that exists in all of the databases around the nation/world, including digital images like Ring Cameras or Beach/Ski cameras showing conditions (and who is at the beach or skiing) into patterns available for real-time analysis and tracking. AI Data Centers are the necessary component of a Minority Report 24/7 dystopian surveillance state with "Pre-Crime" units authorized to 'police' actions and even thoughts just like in the movie. And this is who is developing the AI Data Center systems and technology. And protocols. And saying what "crimes" are. Not your values, are they?:
https://truthsocial.com/@libsoftiktok/posts/116422117291531774
This coming for the world. Unless we as free, sovereign human beings refuse to give it our consent. En masse. The writing is on the wall. Our moment is fleeting. If we do not act today, pressure those in power to protect our privacy and our freedoms as being non-negotiable we will rue the future, the lost opportunity we have been called upon to take. It's not just about us. Are we the generation that loses human dignity, freedom? Remember, it's about them:
https://dhna0nwgp8ihl.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/22010932/You-need-to-be-in-the-way-meme.jpg
This incremental and insidious surveillance is a grave threat, not just to criminals and wrongdoers, but also to our collective well being. Not only is it imperfect and makes dire mistakes at times, it also removes the key to democracy, freedom and growth. Whoever controls and uses this tech is in a position of immense dangerous power. We've seen how Governments, institutions, and corporations can be corrupted. They will abuse this for various reasons I'm sure because they are just flawed humans or maybe just algorithms designed by flawed humans.
We are diverging from our natural design and this could be the final straw that brings us down as a prosperous civilization I think. When everybody is controlled, what they can think, what they can believe, what they can do, that's the end of life as we know it.
We make up laws and enforce them for the collective good, but they can be wrong, they can be counterproductive, cruel, destructive. They can be tools for the maniac egos convinced of their power and superiority; people so out of touch with reality that they would enslave us all "for the greater good".
We forget that we're part of a bigger interdependent system of Nature and all life. We're not really separate or above it. If we ignore our true nature and choose to "control and manipulate" our basic design and role in Nature... look out. Viruses mutate and escape when we try to kill them. It's nature's way to return to balance. We're not the masters here. We're more like the viruses.
We ain't seen nuth'n yet! Buckle up Buttercups! If our would-be overlords (you know the ones I'm talking about... the self-appointed masters of society that want to reduce our carbon footprint (read rid the planet of useless eaters) and have dominion over those that are left) have their way, privacy, along with human autonomy, is going the way of the typewriter... and it's coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
"... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled." - Aldous Huxley
Catherine Austin Fitts has been trying to warn America for years that the technocracy was coming and now it is here and the love child of the Trump Administration. Every fence ever built to keep people out has also kept the other side in when the need arose.
You have an even greater risk of being misidentified or profiled by a human police officer with a lot more likelihood of conviction as they are the "trusted" officials in court.
In an ideal world, people would obey the law and policing would not even be needed. Not being seen by a living policeman is not an excuse to break the law. If you have a problem with the law, we have a mechanism to get them changed. You will always have some degree of anonymity by virtue of being one person out of 300 million or so individuals in the country.
The real problem isn't that they are watching. The problem is that as a society, we refuse to remove the people that are causing the problems from society at large. The vast majority of crime is caused by the same small number people who commit crimes over and over and then are released back into society to continue breaking our laws and inflicting us with their abuse..
It really comes down to cost. With ever increasing density in urban areas, that will call for more and more police to even come to parity with the ratio that we have today wich is greatly under staffed. Are you willing to bear an even greater tax burden to hire the police needed? Are you willing to take up the task yourself? Unlike human police, cameras don't need to eat and don't need pension plans.
It is also a double edged sword. It also gives the added benefit that we have the ability to watch the watchers as well. I am a big fan of police body cameras. It is a shame that they can turn them off at will.
This is much like the tale of the mice "belling the cat." It is a great idea, but who is going to do it?