It would have blown Orwell's mind that people would excitedly pay for spying devices and carefully place them in every room for maximum effectiveness.
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i'm thankful for him that he didnt have to see what world has become
I'm sure there are enough historic people spinning in their graves to permanently solve our energy crisis. The derp stert just doesn't want you to know!
I need the book version of a remix between 1984 and Brave New World. I think even Huxley agreed that Orwell's dystopia was more realistic than his in certain aspects.
They've been spying on us through our phones and computers long before these, at least they improve qol
Birds have been government drones for hundreds of years.
this meme is a decade old now
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The thing is, it's a wiretap - but not from the government. It's a wiretap that ignores if you plan a terrorist attack, but transcribes everything that has to do with shopping.
Kind of insane if you think about it.
Yeah I was gonna say that its not listening to our every thought and secret for some grand scheme as a baseline. It really just wants to sell us more shit and show adverts, which is somehow more benign and also infinitely dumber. But I guess it's easier to match keywords for that versus whatever insane but mundane shit folks say on a regular basis.
Not to say that some of those in positions of power don't want toale 1984 look libertine but moreso that they seem more incapable than unwilling. Probably why some are so obsessed with AI since it could in theory sift through all that data for reasons other than advertising.
All Stasi had to do was help you with your grocery list. 😔
It's 1 privacy Michael! How much could it cost? $10?
Simple 2 ingredient pancake recipe:
Ingredients:
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Pre-packaged pancake mix
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Water
Step 1: Mix pancake mix and water as directed by package.
Step 2: In a greased pan or on a flat top grill on medium heat, pour some batter down making roughly 1-2 inch sized discs.
Step 3: Cook for 2-4 minutes each side, until golden brown.
If you can clean and save one of these bottles, they make pancakes very very easy. especially when you're doing like a thousand of them.
Recently requested my data from Amazon. I received gigabytes worth of audio files of Alexa commands that I said. You can hear my voice, sometimes music in the background, I even found my previous girlfriend setting timers with Alexa. Years of my life. It's genuinely unsettling.