Creepy Tech Podcast

A weekly deep dive into the darker side of modern technology | HOST: 👉🏾 @lshompole

[Creepy Tech Podcast @TechCreepy]

This is how clear I need those UFO videos to be. Get it together people.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

This view from Mexico of the Starship launch is incredible 🤯

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

bro accidentally wrote the best black mirror episode and doesn’t even realize it😭

[Møbō⁷ @Dorothyseun]

The way my smile dropped when I realized what was happening 😭

[MarKeisha | AI Governance + Career Strategy @_mstrdom]

i thought y’all knew the IT/security teams monitor your actions online. we can see how long you’ve been active, what work you’re doing, how long you’ve been in programs, obviously your IP address and y’all still think your 1-4 hour work days are going unnoticed. oh okay.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

How to generate and validate startup ideas in 2024 (with AI)

[Creepy Tech Podcast @TechCreepy]

As always

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

6:15 am: I asked my friend on WhatsApp to help me find a bag.

8:55 am: I started seeing ads for bags on Instagram.

If WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, why am I seeing ads for a bag out of the blue?

[Voice of Reason @lshompole]

A year later another lesson: adopted from a friend.

33. Schedule at least 1 annual photoshoot for yourself. One day you’ll either want to:
• Share the memories with your world or;
• Simply remind yourself of the journey you took & the many versions of you that have existed.

[Creepy Tech Podcast @TechCreepy]

This is definitely something I plan on doing an episode about.

[Niels Hoven 🐮 @NielsHoven]

I've tried all the top reading apps, including ABC Mouse, Duolingo ABC, HOMER, Hooked on Phonics, Khan Academy Kids, and Reading Raven.

I was shocked.

I left the gaming industry bc I started to feel like a drug dealer. But I never sold drugs by marketing them as health food.

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

Stay safe out there, remote workers

More here, via Bloomberg: https://t.co/2OL2EAnuG6

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

Wells Fargo fired over a dozen employees for "simulating keyboard activity" last month, according to a Finra filing

Laid off for just trying to keep the teams status green

[Lukas (computer)🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Employers know "work from home" is a huge meme by now

They have the data. These guys talking about how they're 3x more productive WFH are simply lying. Or delusional, maybe

It's not like your macbook stops working when it's outside the office, everyone just dicks off if you can't see them

Big finance firms used the miracle of capitalism to solve the issue early, but nobody likes what they came up with - "employee monitoring tools."

Full OS access so employers can make sure you're not hiding personal browser tabs. Webcam access so they can make sure you stay focused on the screen for 8 hours straight

Some even gift you a fancy new camera, purely because they care about you - and your eyetracking data that shows the exact part of the screen you're looking at.

Companies using these systems noticed they improve employee efficiency regardless of whether they're WFH or at the office. Their new ideal isn't just banning WFH, but forcing the full office into one of these systems.

It's a tough sell though, so most without a big name and reputation for being ruthless haven't succeeded yet. That'll change tho

VR is gonna be used heavily in the workplace. Not every company, every role ofc - just some.

Yeah, VR might not be good enough yet for hyper-realistic videogame simulations. The motion tracking might not perfectly replicate reality, either. It's fine for meetings and excel tho. It gives employees access to (effectively) unlimited monitors, too. And they can use these while traveling - or even working from home!

Wait, what? Didn't we just say companies hate WFH?

They don't hate WFH, they hate unmonitored employees. 'Extra monitors' isn't enough on its own, but fortunately VR is also the most advanced employee monitoring system of all time.

The moment you put that headset on you're teleported to a perfect corporate panopticon

"Oh wow! It's awesome how Apple Vision Pro just knows what I'm thinking! How does it get so much information just from where I'm looking??"

Because it has like 20+ cameras and other sensors 2cm away from your eyes to collect the most detailed eyetracking data in the world

If you thought the data mobile phone companies had access to was bad, VR is like some orwellian nightmare doomsday apocalypse scenario. It's about as close as you can get to neuralink chips in your brain without surgery.

You cannot prevent your eyes from moving in reaction to your thoughts. It's all out there.

They know where you're looking every microsecond of the work day, they know where you are because you're wearing cameras now and they control all data you access because it still flows through them.

Using eyetracking to detect lies is trivial. This "most people break eye contact for a second when they lie!" meme lifehack stuff is done. There will be no guessing.

They'll know the exact picosecond your gaze falters, how long, where you looked instead, how much your eyes widened at what point, whether you're defocusing in an attempt to blur everything out and trick the whole system, etc

Even stuff like your heartbeat and breathing are easily inferred with enough gyro data, mics and hi-res sensors staring at your eyeveins.

Plug all this stuff into the AI model they have of you and bossman's not gonna believe your excuse for missing the meetings anymore.

They'll know exactly how you feel about everyone, too. And that you're thinking about Cassy naked now. And that you're still flaccid despite this - probably because your new SSRIs are interfering with the way your blood vessels dilate and contract. Just a guess tho idk

Information collection wouldn't be incentivized solely to manage employees, either. In the early days of any infostream, that data's much more valuable than it will be later. Selling your personal information used to be a pretty profitable business model. Everyone already has it now tho, so it's worth less.

They do not, however, have your eyetracking and biometric data. The faster they get it, the earlier they can go to market with whatever VR product they're developing and the more they stand to make.

Companies might take a principled stance against selling employee data if doing so only gets paid back in $800 per employee annually and makes them look evil. But what about $4k? Or $20k?

Seems like there's probably a number where people start sweating. Consumers probably just give the data away free if your product adds enough convenience to their lives, so the number might not get high. Fun thought experiment though

I don't think this is something everyone has to deal with, either. There's only so much juice for the squeeze. I would not, however, want to be in a role with a lot of extra juice this next decade.

Neuralink is a spooky, but it's probably a while before employers can force you to get chipped. In the meantime, I might suggest refocusing your fears towards a more "reasonable centrist" doomsday scenario. One where a good portion of workers get enslaved by dorky goggles

Or maybe corporations decide their values and culture are more important than a minor 140% increase in your efficiency. Who knows

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Chinese PLA soldier walking with his armed robot dog.

[Creepy Tech Podcast @TechCreepy]

https://t.co/HfLXIwifYk

[Creepy Tech Podcast @TechCreepy]

The Voice Inside Your Head - Holosonics Directional Audio - Part I Holosonic is a company founded by Dr. F. Joseph Pompei a graduate of the Massachusetts institute of technology.

The company manufactures and installs highly direction audio spotlight speaker systems.

[Creepy Tech Podcast @TechCreepy]

beams like a light beam typically around 5 degrees. The sounds emitted by these speakers are very targeted and can be described as 3D in someway which makes the messages sound like they are coming from inside your own mind.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

Scoop: OpenAI's senior leadership says they were unaware ex-employees who didn't sign departure docs were threatened with losing their vested equity. But their signatures on relevant documents (which Vox is now releasing) raise questions about whether they could have missed it. https://t.co/UGpSFalfD1

[Parul Gautam @Parul_Gautam7]

Hackers can steal your data in 15 seconds.

These are some hacker tools you should be aware of that seem harmless but can do real damage.

[Bookmark for later 10/10]

[Creepy Tech Podcast @TechCreepy]

Just in case they call you & you accidentally pick up. Here’s what to do, where to report & how to avoid falling for scams.

Honorable mention r/Scams 🤝

https://t.co/9uMc3yO8v6

[Creepy Tech Podcast @TechCreepy]

*silence*

Me: “hello….”

*silence*

Me: “hello….”

*inaudible sounds *

Scammer: “This is U.S. Customs and Border Protection…”

Me: “what? Who’s this?”

Scammer: “This is U.S. customs I’m looking for *inaudible sounds*”

Me: “Oh wrong number”

Scammer: “OHHHHHH FUCK YOU!”