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@BlaynePuklich
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passwords should be like “that’s close enough”
@darkwolf I saw the same in the very small rural town I live near today. Very proud of that.

“Sometime in the last twenty years, our possessions came alive.

Not all at once. Not dramatically. One by one, the objects in our lives opened their eyes, found our faces, and began to need us.

Your thermostat has opinions now. Your television requires a login. Your car updates itself overnight, and sometimes when you start it in the morning, the interface has rearranged itself, as if someone broke in and reorganized your dashboard while you slept.

Your earbuds won't play music until they've updated their firmware. Your refrigerator wants to be on your Wi-Fi.

None of this is broken. This is the product functioning as designed.”

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Terry Godier
@selyfriday you're probably wrong.
@beep nice find, ethan.
matduggan.com

It's JSON all the way down

matduggan.com
@kristiedegaris of course you're going to worry that saying anything will make it worse, that's part of what's counted upon. screw that, say lots. all the time, any time. like you said, keeping silent does no good. do not give up. there has to be more that can be done, something, that makes this person leave you alone.
@kristiedegaris is there some sort of civil action you can take, bypassing the police, that engages the legal system? maybe that’s a step you can take. don’t ever be afraid to write or talk about something like this. i fully understand a lot of what you wrote, on a personal level, but i’m not exactly in your shoes.

I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.