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28 sats \ 2 replies \ @adlai 7h \ on: I hope this doesn't end with rats on your face... tech AskSN privacy devs

that's a slightly disturbing title, although I guess you've already been accused of clickbait...

may your home remain clean of vermin thanks to the efforts of undomesticatable territorial cats who nevertheless demand attention when they feel they deserve it.

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8 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 7h

I actually meant for it to be a greatly disturbing title. It’s hard to imagine people in the west accepting torture, but it would have been just as hard to imagine people in the west accepting this level of surveillance just 20 years ago.

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28 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 6h

I'm guessing it is a reference to 1984

speaking of the societal frog-boiling, have you ever read [or witnessed a live production of] No Exit[1] ? could warrant a [re]visit, now that "social" is more likely to modify "media" or "engineering" than "person" ...

  1. "Hell is other people" redirects here. ↩

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