If life’s taught me anything, it’s that other people don’t like the music I like and I have access to an effectively endless amount of it between Bandcamp and YouTube.
Screeching tires, synthesizers, and engine sounds as we plunge.
I always think of Johnny Rotten’s story of playing it at parties to piss people off for these examples. And I do actually like it. But I will admit I listen to Safe As Milk far more often.
I was talking about the ads on every vertical surface in the mall, not long after the movie came out, and someone said, "I guess I didn't notice." This is how democracy dies. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
Ready Player One is much more on the nose about it, but it goes by so fast people likely missed it too:
> we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures
> But Minority Report, though it was written and filmed before 9/11, might be Spielberg’s most prescient work of all. Tasked with predicting our near future, he imagined an America filled with dazzling inventions but rotting from the inside out, one in which the erosion of civil liberties is thinly veiled by chest-thumping braggadocio about technology’s power to solve every problem. Spielberg's eye-scanning cameras and autocratic cops could easily be exchanged with the overreach of the PATRIOT Act, or the NSA listening in to casual conversations. The film’s warning is one the world is only beginning to heed. We may not have precogs dreaming of murders in police precincts, but so much beloved technology of today is just as effective at watching and constricting our lives.
My guess is it doesn't do proper face recognition but just tries to put you into a bucket. "Oh you are a female teenager, play whatever is popular for that bucket"
In the Netherlands a couple of those companies that rent out screens with advertising in the public space placed new versions that included a camera above the screen meant for measuring people's reactions to content shown, detecting demographics and mood. After public backlash they promised these were deactivated until the legal situation became clear, but by now they've stuck thick badges over these with their brand name. I guess they got sick of people putting stickers over the camera holes.
Or at least that's how I explain my local store playing a country song into some obscure song I love from 20+ years ago, into some modernish pop song.
Maybe some place has furthered this with recognition software, but I don't interact with much social media and still have noticed this.
I guess you are still safe if you go alone in the middle of the woods without any device.
Not to pick on you for any reason, but I interpret it that way too. And FWIW I thought akomtu's comment was quite funny.
Saying that a state of affairs already exists is no kind of moral or rational argument against the wrongs of bad circumstances. In it's most charitable interpretation it's just empty "whataboutism". A less charitable take is that it's tacit support for a situation by propagating morale-sapping defeatism.
I'm glad that more people are starting to call out "Privacy is dead just give up" naysayers.
Now, I'm not saying you are one or that is your intent, but please be mindful that statements that seem to normalise bad circumstances in an offhand way can can't help but be interpreted at lending assent.
As Howard Zinn put it [1]:
"The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant
opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak
out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of
their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious
catalysts for change."
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn:_You_Can%27t_Be_Ne...
In case it was not clear, the parent comment I was responding to was mentioning "if we do that, we'd be tracked day and night wherever we go" (I paraphrase) and to me it's amusing that that poster did not notice that it's already happening right now.
That does not say anything about this being desirable or not, again.
> say what should be if you wish to say anything at all.
You don't have any say about how I should comment on HN.