A Boring Dystopia

"One step closer?" Good one. Total surveillance is already here and has been for a while.
This Ring fuckery just makes it even more convenient for ~~fascists~~ law enforcement to find you.

We should make dazzle makeup standard when going outside. It's the perfect fashion trend for today.

Reading the ring press release, I have to admit the features look useful. I wouldn’t mind a better way to know whether it’s someone I care about before I bother checking. Most unexpected doorbell ringers are solicitors that I don’t want to waste time with

They’re also coming out in December and there is not yet a way to disable that feature for privacy.

For those who care about their own privacy walking down the street …. Unless houses are very tight to the street, you should be more concerned with the higher resolution models also being released. We did have an incident where police asked me if I would check the camera and not only could I not identify the person, it was hard to tell they were a person (the idiots said “oh that was us, based on jacket color”) but my point is that with the limited resolution of current cameras, no one is identifying you unless you get pretty close. And it’s much worse at night. The new high resolution models may change that

Awesome. Theres a couple right across the road from me with one of those things. Bet they dont take it down... cunts.

My face is in all the databases, sadly.