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crawlin-through-daisies

@crawlin-through-daisies

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woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

Ebeneezer in 1742 wakes with a start as for some reason he has put out his guttering candle by slapping atop it ith the palm of his hand. His hand is burned and his nightgown and cap are spattered with hot wax.

Fascinated by the perceived necessity of an Equivalent Exchange

November 24, 2025 - Flock Safety’s CEO Garrett Langley called the privacy and transparency activists who are creating a public database to track the locations of flock cameras at https://deflock.me “terrorists" and said they are "closer to antifa than anything else…", meaning that to be a bad thing apparently.

Flock Safety is a tech-company that's putting up thousands of AI-powered cameras around the USA. From the deflock.me site:

Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car's location, date, and time. They also capture your car's make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. These systems are marketed as indispensable tools to fight crime, but they ignore the powerful tools police already have to track criminals, such as cell phone location data, creating a loophole that doesn't require a warrant. Data from ALPRs has led to wrongful arrests, profiling, and stalking ex-partners by police officers. There's no substantial evidence that ALPRs effectively prevent crime, despite Flock's unethical attempts to prove otherwise. ALPRs are a serious risk to your privacy and civil liberties. These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion.

The 404 media coverage of this has been really good. Benn Jordan also did a video that goes into some detail about how bad this shit is for privacy

It's honestly crazy how a laptop is such an advanced and incredible machine, and yet one of the crucial components to making it work is just an ordinary big ol' fan, and if it stops getting fanned hard enough it'll throw a fit. Egyptian pharaoh type mechanism.

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

  • the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
  • taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
  • at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
  • 'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65
  • it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
  • it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
  • you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
  • young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
  • there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

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