> WTF!! When did we land in the middle of a Black Mirror episode?

At least a decade ago! The first TVs with Automatic Content Recognition shipped in 2013[0]. There was also a brief panic in 2024 about air fryers spying on people[1].

And of course practically every website you visit is doing a full session recording with mouse movements and key presses captured.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognition

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/05/air-fryer...

Do you remember how a series of crazy coincidences and freak accidents kept preventing the LHC from being turned on? What if the LHC was causing world-ending or life-ending events, and we simply kept surviving only in thinner and thinner slices of amplitude (timelines) where those freak accidents happened, but where also more improbable world conditions took place?

There is a singular patent owned by Sony that stands between you and being required to physically acknowledge ads on your TV: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en

No one cares. There’s little serious pushback to privacy invasions by big tech. Flock cameras have been a rare exception. Half the people “have nothing to hide” and half aren’t willing to give up the convenience that the popular app or gadget gives them.

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