Thank you, this is the kind of detail I was hoping someone would describe, no sarcasm. To be specific, too, this is all probably easier on Androids / jailbroken iPhones

But again, what I’m getting at here is, are we so sure it takes all that much anymore. Processing could take place in a shorter way now, more than it could when our current opinion was still true.

I don’t doubt you, but it’s worth asking if your reasons for stating that our phones don’t listen to us 24/7 haven’t changed since you first formed the opinion.

Lots of things are meso-facts (a true fact at rhetorical time we learn it, but no longer true later). Tech moves quickly. It’s worth not assuming anyone is right here, & asking: under what conditions could our phones be listening (enough to produce what OP experienced)?

Stores will never respect your privacy or data, so you have no obligation to respect a corporation’s expectation of truth.

Just have memorized fake data ready for bullshit like this, say it when asked. Then the retail person who cares even less than you about it (but is forced to pretend they do, in order to survive) can get to their break faster. Win win

Every platform Every time

These all sound like good strategies! I’ve found in my experience that platforms sniff out temp / fake emails and phone numbers. I’m sure it can be done , but it isn’t always as easy as a list you just go through. But even so, thank you for the info 👍🙏

Photo caption: a woman smiling like a maniac,performing for a social media photo. Screenshot of television series Black Mirror, from an episode about social media dystopia

Private jets . They’ve all got multiple front yards & none of us can afford pitchforks But small aeroplanes, those are weak. & these parasites just looove em

Yes.

This was FASCINATING, no sarcasm, thank you for the link— I’m kinda floored by the story

thank you!! for real. if I’m semi-blindly following someone & they’re a fkg monster I appreciate knowing that I need to not follow them & in fact do the opposite

Ugh, that’s awful, and I believe that, but it’d be great to see a link, since I’m reduced to using Kagi obv

Conflicted! Cory Doctorow just endorsed it & I’m way less smart than that person so i usually do what they say :\

Ma dai what a logical fallacy laden answer. Idk which one cause I aint that sharp but you know well you’re trying to smudge the point

Sorry to pile on but since we’re already splitting hairs: it’s the phrasing that pushes it over into xenophobia. A better way might be for example “the CEO is shady. A Belorussian, [name] is…”. But combined in the same noun phrase - “a shady X” - puts it past whatever fine line we’re debating

I know, I’m all writing a bad sci fi premise over here. Probably shouldn’t contribute to whatever they are building

Just a goofy theory but I’m thinking the (coming) trillionaires just want real-enough “humans” who take up a lot less space & resources for whatever post-climate-genocide world they’ll construct & pretend they “saved” humanity. AI-generated non-people will be good enough for them: they can’t stand the real thing.

They’ve unleashed the storm, they’re buying their expensive bunkers, & they’ll have far fewer of us to deal with when they creep back out after.

Or maybe they’ll pass laws that let everyone’s AI doppelgängers spend their money for them! Goofy theories.

I mean, that IS how they think 🤷‍♂️

agreed. sounds propaganda-ey. also sounds kinda like that other run-on sentence post in privacy recently about how being concerned rUiNs yOuR sOCiaL liFe 🙄

My guy, you can’t fool us, we know accounts like you exist solely for this. only question is are you paid by your corporate owner or your local government’s intelligence agencies?