Because viruses linger in the air like smoke, a multi-pronged approach including masking, vaccines, and clean air all work together to keep ourselves and our children safe. Our children in the sense of the village. Our children in the Baldwinian sense.
Use W.A.T.C.H to keep clean air in classrooms
![What Your Smart TV Actually Does
ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) is the surveillance feature built into every smart TV sold in the last decade. Here's what it does [1]:
• Captures a screenshot of your screen every 500 milliseconds, that's two per second
• Matches those screenshots against a content database to identify what you're watching
• Sends viewing data to the manufacturer and their advertising partners
• Logs content from HDMI ports: cable boxes, gaming consoles, laptops, everything
• Infers "highly personal attributes" about your race, religion, and politics from viewing patterns
This isn't just Netflix and cable TV. Plug your laptop into the TV for a video call? Screenshot. Cast family photos? Catalogued. Pull up your bank statement on the big screen? Screenshot taken, matched, sold.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7yzqlku44oxny5rr4dlkx3p/bafkreiemfuydc2w6kgvys34x24hxbhwmwk6stak2r2n4wxe7rvrs3r5edi)
![Square image with a pale pink background overlaid with a darker pink sketch of two hands holding a serviceberry plant. Over top of the sketch is a quote that reads: This pail of [Serviceberries] represents hundreds of gift exchanges that led up to my blue-stained fingers: the Maples who gave their leaves to the soil, the countless invertebrates and microbes who exchanged nutrients and energy to build the humus in which a Serviceberry seed could take root, the Cedar Waxwing who dropped the seed, the sun, the rain, the early spring flies who pollinated the flowers, the farmer who wielded the shovel to tenderly settle the seedlings. They are all parts of the gift exchange by which everyone gets what they need.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7yzqlku44oxny5rr4dlkx3p/bafkreigkoe5bk2bmznfvza4rd4tppgfjyudppn5nxkssbd3svrv237y43a)
