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[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
/h/slackernews SETTINGS /h/slackernews LOG /h/slackernews MODS /h/slackernews EXILEES /h/slackernews FOLLOWERS /h/slackernews BLOCKERS
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A cool topic but I assume no one will want my account logins after I die lol. Seems kind of self-centered to assume ppl want anything beyond a few keepsakes and money.
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My entire estate is going into a trust to fund chatbots to harass people online using whatever state of the art chatbot technology exists trained on my online postings
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Too bad r-slurs will
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in a 100% estate tax in the coming future ![:marseyfortuneteller: :marseyfortuneteller:](/e/marseyfortuneteller.webp)
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It's like the 1000x digital photos you take on your iphone each year vs the 10 precious books of photos your mom keeps in a binder.
Most data these days in inherently ephemeral and expendable. We don't need a deadmanswitch for 99% of shit we produce but there's that 1% that could be valuable. Mostly just photos and 1-to-1 personal emails (aka letters).
These you can keep in a shared iCloud/Photos db or w/e Google / 100% valid open privacy-friend
version.
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I make albums in google photos about my friends visits and then curate the best ones via the favorite button![:marseyneat: :marseyneat:](/e/marseyneat.webp)
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People always overestimate their importance to the world. I've had to deal with people's electronics before when they died and we didn't comb through their data. We sent their phone to some place to get their contact list so we could call and let the friends know, and that was it. I assume the same would happen to me. No one's gonna be like 'we cannot rest until we know what genre of fart porn is on this hard disk'
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It seems handy in case you don't want your bank account drained by subscriptions and services after you die.
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yeah that’s fair.
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People are just paranoid about cultivating a specific memory of them to try to achieve this virtual life after death, to have this information out their means that they don't have control over their memory because one of your family members can randomly decide to rifled through your files and change everyone's perception of you. Its deeply narcissistic but people have to larp immortality somehow.
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Getting a Wikipedia article is probably the ideal case of this type of immortality.
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