George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.
It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.
mass surveillance. you can be id'd via electronic payments, phone, bluetooth signal from ur devices, fl*ck cams, wifi, ai ids your face + gait, license plate readers etc. high powered data centers can process it all in one work flow to know where everyone is all the time :)
This is what I was tweeting about yesterday. We can no longer rely on the assumption ai will be visually distinct or bad looking. Yesterday I heard an ai song that was horrifyingly good to where I was shocked it was ai. You must be against ai on principle, not bc of aesthetic
How to legally and lawfully GET RID OF ALL @Flock_Safety
🚨 Flock has a hidden weakness many don’t know: public records requests.
Activists have successfully forced at least 8 cities to shut down Flock programs, either by exposing unauthorized data access or showing the footage was publicly accessible.
One of the most effective ways to take down Flock cameras?
FOIA Freedom of Info Requests
PRA Public Records Requests
Credit to @JasonBassler1 for a template to file one in your city:
We are PRIVATE citizens, the government should know very little if anything about us at all.
They are PUBLIC officials, we should know damn near everything about what they are doing.
The cameras are pointed the wrong way.
My BIGGEST problem is that I want to be politically informed but I would also like to have a good day and be happy, and those are mutually exclusive things apparently.
The thing about “the curtains are blue in the novel because they’re blue” is that even if the curtains in question are real curtains that some real person put up in their real apartment, and the author is simply narrating that fact, you’re gonna tell me the choice of décor has no meaning whatsoever?
Okay then surely we can’t infer anything about the people who designed or choose to live in each of these two spaces. Right????