Amy C.

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/forcing-ads-captive-audience-attention-theft-crime

TLDR; screen ads in places like elevators where people are forced to wait, steal our attention without offering anything in return (ie a tv show or web service)

How does a person counteract these kind of ads? Localized EMP? SUPER meditation? wearing blinders or headphones?

Apr 17, 2017 at 7:03pmWeb
Show threadsarah ✨Apr 17, 2017
@amy in my ideal world where i don't get arrested for property crime, with a hammer
Show threadNolan LawsonApr 18, 2017

@amy Aside: the author, Tim Wu, has written a fantastic book on this subject called "The Attention Merchants": http://a.co/22SOXFU

He notes that in 19th century Paris there was a huge explosion of posters across the city. At first they were welcomed because many were quite beautiful (think "Le Chat Noir" and other posters people still buy today), but eventually there were just so many that the locals rebelled. The city passed laws and the posters mostly went away.

Show threadAmy C.Apr 18, 2017
@nolan oooh this is very interesting
Show threadrichlittv3Apr 18, 2017
@amy meditation and presence. Stay focused on yourself. Breathe. Remember what you were doing before.
Show threadRusty 🦑Apr 18, 2017
@amy black spraypaint
Show thread(ノಠ益ಠ)ノApr 18, 2017
@amy tape, ink, paint
Show threadGavinApr 18, 2017
@amy is there anything that isn't solved by localized emp?
Show threadAmy C.Apr 18, 2017
@halkeye Well, you don't want to accidentally disrupt someone's pacemaker, so I wonder if a safer approach would just to disrupt wifi signals or just monitor displays.
Show threadNolan LawsonApr 18, 2017
@amy @halkeye Need an adblocker for the brain. Like that episode of Black MIrror where people appear scrambled when you "block" them
Show threadAmy C.Apr 18, 2017
@nolan @halkeye I should really watch Black Mirror so I understand all these references that are floating around
Show threadNolan LawsonApr 18, 2017
@amy @halkeye Start with season 3 is my advice. :)
Show threadNelson PecoraApr 18, 2017

@amy I read read stuff on my phone and desperately avoid making eye contact with other humans.

Oh you mean just in the elevator?

Show threadAmy C.Apr 18, 2017
@keats I'm surprised by how you don't bump into stuff.
Show threadNelson PecoraApr 18, 2017
@amy when I was a kid, I used to walk the 3 1/2 miles to school and back while reading books. I got very good at not running into things. https://toot.cafe/media/p-RlrEZQIiW7Ja5JUEg