Time will start to seem weird when I blog. This is because I’ve started to not post things right off, but waiting for a day or so, so I can proof read. This isn’t a hard time but more of an internal guidance memo.
I really need to add a certificate and all that. It’s not hard, just bit something I’ve done yet. I feel guilty I haven’t. I need to get on that.
Amazon and people tracking. While I’m not impassioned about this, it does have me slightly annoyed. They’re a business doing what businesses do, but I disagree with their fairly boilerplate “as long as it doesn’t break or TOS” response. The issue is that every instance of enhanced surveillance has been abused by law enforcement officers before. Allowing them to build their own systems and then turning a blind eye is one thing, but this is a bit more direct. This made think of a fun idea though. Mount a camera that recognized faces, generically that is, and wear it everywhere. Identify each new face a serial number, and then start a spaghetti map of generic people tracking. Where do I see people I’ve seen before? Double down and go walk outside of Amazon buildings during periods of high employee ingress and egress, and you have an interesting, I assume non-TOS breaking, artful counter-narrative. Who watches the (robotic overlord) watchers, indeed.