It would be a full time job to comply with all the surveys and review requests from every app we’re forced to use and every purchase we’ve ever made

Biden’s entire administration was about maintaining the status quo of 2019. That also meant pretending that COVID don’t exist, that nothing had fundamentally changed and that nothing would change.

The stated value of these devices continue to get smaller while costing more and surveiling harder.

They don’t have any original ideas. Altman’s vision is literally just the movie Her over and over again.

Ah I didn’t know the original quoted post was from Bouie. Looks like I’ve been blocked

We’ve regressed so much in terms of basic public hygiene and etiquette since 2019. I’ve never seen people actively ignore open mouthed coughs in public like this

I’m not interested in a society where I have to wear high a respirator and take good tests regularly to be able to enter public spaces, but that’s where we are as long as we refuse to clean the air, don’t have universal paid sick leave, and pretend covid has no long term damage.

“Yet the system is broader than the buildings called "prisons." Manipulation, confinement, punishment, and deprivation can take other forms - forms that may be less easily recognized as the violence they are.” Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name

Normalizing being on video for work was a mistake.

And if it’s not common to wear masks now at your work, it’s not because the virus got any less dangerous, it’s just that your employer decided your health isn’t worth protecting. Covid is a labor issue