By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19hPervert glasses will supercharge the banal and destructive post-9/11 surveillance, sure - but more than that, they will be combined with facial recognition to dox and shame anyone and everyone who makes a public mistake. 16113
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19hFar from Larry Ellison's utopia of people on their "best behavior," this will be a world of inauthentic, stunted selves, a society of people who will never know the joy of finding out who we are and being those people. eof/ 2823
dragonguitart.bsky.social @dragonguitart.bsky.social · 18hThis reminds me of Václav Havel’s parable as explained by Timothy Snyder in his lecture series Hitler and Stalin Today. Behind the iron curtain, no one lived an authentic life because of fear of each other. 0131
Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 18hDavid Graeber points out that the "People can't be left to their own devices because they misbehave sometimes" argument behind all policing and surveillance becomes ludicrous when you hear the "solution" is to give SOME people a license to kill, assault, snoop, kidnap and steal with impunity. 061
