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And they are coming back with Meta recording glasses. 🤦🏽‍♂️

@enron yep, and I thought I was kind of hip to these things so when my state was talking about adding a camera to the arm that swings off school buses to tell everyone to stop when they let the kids off the bus I was like “meh what harm does it do if it helps enforce that stopping so kids don’t get run over?” (They claimed the camera was only active when the stop sign pops out and we have a law that requires traffic cams/flock cams not save anything for more than 3 days unless the cops pull it for reasons.)

I feel so dumb.

@enron I mean... Not even in my evilest delulus I would imagine that a game company would make a pact with the devil like that... If we think that way we would suspect of every service EVER.

And its so sad that we MUST suspect of every service we've given. Like, give me a break, I just want to have fun.

@enron Those of us who refused to participate in any of those things still got fucked over too, because cyberpunk hellfuture is yesterday

E: this is more support than argument I guess, just, ugh

@enron @i_dabble I can see how you’d connect those, but I believe the reality is most* companies and tech weren’t built to explicitly enable this, they just weren’t built carefully enough to avoid it.

* meta? With them, anything for a buck. Edit: I also need to acknowledge Niantic here.

@enron using psychological manipulation to get money has worked forever?

You shouldn't feel too bad for being manipulated, for a while an advertising company was the most valuable company in the world, it really works.

@enron The Fediverse at least is kinda resisting this sorta thing and people have been picking retro and analog stuff back up because they can actually own that still, where modern stuff is getting more and more rented by the day.

Also, Linux has been gaining usershare in the midst of Windows' self-destruction lately.

Like, on the Fediverse, and even Bsky too for that matter, although the latter might have more to do with how my feeds are set up (I migrated to Blacksky infrastructure last year when Bsky corporate announced a very unpopular moderation change to their PDS, just to put that out there), I'm seeing a lot of people picking traditional art and crafts back up in terms of the creative hobbies, for instance, which I'm all for, especially in the current era where GenAI has greatly muddied up the waters in the digital art space in terms of what's human-made and what's AI-generated, where traditional art and crafts don't necessarily have that problem; you can't AI-generate fingerprints in paint or clay or whatever, for example, at least not convincingly, ditto for brush textures or crayon/pastel textures or whatever, plus in terms of music, vinyl has been on a resurgence since '09 at the earliest if not earlier, although that has more to do with hipster culture than anything else, and in terms of gaming, retro consoles have been gaining popularity again in recent times.

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>Of course Niantic used Pokemon Go for location training on autonomous weapons, but we weren't worried because it was just a fun game that got people outside.

Personally I wasn't worried because Niantic was a Google subsidiary, and they had a much better reason to use the gaming data to improve their mapping services. They didn't even have a weapon development project.

@enron Let's just saw I have been laughed out of every possible conference room for saying precisely this since about 1989 and I'm presently spitting mad. But I'm also not pretending like anything short of collapse is going to solve this because, well, look around.

They're running it in the ground and can't see it. Let them.

Mom's bringing a wet bulb for summer. No one's going to like that. Still coming.

Confluence/convergence into cascading collapse is soon. I'm for popcorn. I tried.🖖