Another depressingly mundane post. Click on the speech bubble to read all the upset comments or go back with the undo icon.
Jees the weeks breeze by and I'm tired all the time.
Been trying to keep the ship on course but gotta say, it's been rough. Every evening goes by like a breeze either sleeping or staring at screens. I feel my heart skip a beat as I slowly feel my life slipping away one wasted afternoon at a time.
I did scan my face though a few days ago. The model has textures and everything and the whole process feels very "high tech". For a while I had a 3D model of my face on GrabCAD for people to freely download. That was a model I made with MRI data and thought it'd be cool to have a face people could freely download and print or use for their own little projects. Slowly, my likeness would spread all over the world as a small testament that I existed and might not be completely forgotten.
Then I stopped to think of what might happen. What if someone robs a bank using a 3D printed mask of my face? What if that is caught on camera and an algorithm goes over it and makes a data map of my features? What if that data map is then put in every major crime database? What if one day I'm in an airport and then I get stopped because the automated camera system flagged me as being part of a bank robbery due to that? I quickly freaked out and removed the model from the net.
It's only paranoia if they're not out to get you.
A few weeks ago I went on some BBS adventures. I took some screenshots of the places I found and might make a dedicated post about it. It's amazing people keep those things up. They feel like crypts though, only the lost and the lonely wander around those boards anymore, and that's what makes them so neat.
Facebook had the gall to print and full-page ad in the New York Times saying Apple was hurting small businesses by advocating for rudimentary privacy rights in a coming iOS update.
I mean listen to this tripe:
Apple plans to roll out a forced software update that will change the internet as we know it—for the worse.
Take your favorite cooking sites or sports blogs. Most are free because they show advertisements.
Apple's change will limit their ability to run personalized ads. To make ends meet, many will have to start charging you subscription fees or adding more in-app purchases, making the internet much more expensive and reducing high-quality free content.
Beyond hurting apps and websites, many in the small business community say this change will be devastating for them too, at a time when they face enormous challenges. They need to be able to effectively reach the people most interested in their products and services to grow.
Forty-four percent of small to medium businesses started or increased their usage of personalized ads on social media during the pandemic, according to a new Deloitte study. Without personalized ads, Facebook data shows that the average small business advertiser stands to see a cut of over 60% in their sales for every dollar they spend.
Small businesses deserve to be heard. We're standing up to Apple for our small business customers and our communities.
Every time I think of going back I see shit like this and I'm reminded that indeed there is no going back and that we are living in the cyberpunk dystopia we all feared. It's looking like the US is on the brink of civil war now. Never thought I'd see the day. I remember as a kid wondering if the collapse of the US like what Paul Kennedy predicted could ever come to pass, it seemed so unthinkable back then. Now look where we are.
I need to escape this real cyberpunk dystopia for a bit by entering the virtual cyberpunk dystopia of 2077.
Take a look at how the post from
Thursday 17th of December 2020
upset the world!
No one cared enough about this post to say anything at all.
Let the world know how my words upset you.
