I thought of the keyboard option but my USB also was fried with my keyboard (worked fine before that). Now a bluetooth keyboard might work though I'd have to login as guest since I can't put in my password. But I decided to wait on the new notebook instead...
And the surveillance will add nothing but more disfunction. Now you will just have more angles of it! Unless authorities decide to redact for national security or the cameras are all turned off...
Sorry, don't mean to be didactic, but it adds a lot, a lot of evil...
"For too long we thought privacy was individual in nature, that it had to do mostly with personal preferences around concealment and exposure. And we let surveillance tech creep in. But we were wrong. Privacy is about the power of the citizenry; it’s a vital pillar of liberal democracy. And moves ... towards surveillance are power grabs not coincidentally associated with authoritarian tendencies. To watch surveillance further unfold, with its political implications more obvious by the day, is extremely concerning. Surveillance is not a neutral tool — it’s an instrument of social control."
Yeah I stopped buying booze at the big box grocery when they started scanning my license. No thanks! Of course this is minor in the grand scheme but it was a red flag for me.
I was replying to Kat Bro, but my response became too lengthy and unwieldly.
A propós having our driver's licenses scanned now to purchase alcohol....
I had a similar incident occur in Sprouts over the winter. I bought two bottles of highly rated Merlot (I was making a stew a la beef bourguignon) 3-4 months ago at an incredibly cheap price (on sale...thus, I was also stocking up), and the cashier asked me my birthdate with a full line of people in back of me. I realized that she had no option because Sprouts was requiring her to do so; gave my birthdate in public which I would have preferred not to do; and have never bought any more booze from Sprouts
I don't know what's going on...I've got white hair and look old. I haven't been asked for ID in quite a while. No one had recorded any information ever from my driver's license if they did ask to see ID. Now, apparently, more places are.
WHY?
I don't believe anyone can give an appropriate answer or response. Simply seeing the ID, if needed, should be sufficient. RECORDING your birthdate or scanning your driver's license into a computer to purchase a bottle of wine?
My suspicion? Far more AI-controlled systems exist than we think. Surveillance systems are highly developed. I’m feeling more and more certain about this possibility. Why else would anyone want to record your driver's license number/information or birthdate for an alcohol purchase? Very creepy. I think our purchases of alcohol are being recorded not only for promotion and sales (selling the data) but also for acquisition into some dossier or folder linked to us in some way.
I hate this intrusion into our lives. If the individual is over the legal age to purchase legally the alcohol, nothing further should be recorded.
I am one of very few women in my age range who is forthcoming about my birthday, but I recognize it as an invasion of privacy. Apparently they really go after smokers. I know this because I bought nicotine gum and one can of nicotine pouches in January-February when I quit smoking. They needed to scan my full ID both times. My guess is that health and life insurance companies would really want that information to raise premiums... it's dystopian
I may have died (given my advanced age) by this point, but younger people reading this thread should be particularly aware of the time when they may be refused the freedom to buy a product. The store or online company may not even give an explanation or cause; a person may try to pay, and the clerk simply says "you're not allowed" to purchase the item, or "we can't sell this product to you.
I see society as not even necessarily needing to implement digital ID. You're correct. I think the systems can become so invasive and large that a medical insurance company may block acquiring a OTC product (given their records indicating physician-prescribed medications to you); assess someone has bought too much (legal) booze or marijuana for the month; or even block someone whose medications contraindicate usage with other drugs including alcohol.
Ah, the joys of life as an ex-pat, am I right? I figure, if you live abroad long enough, eventually you will feel comfortable in your new home, but by then you're likely to feel like a stranger/foreigner in your old home country?
I'd say you did a great job of posting in spite of your technical challenges. One meme did show up twice but it was a good one (the "pothole, check engine light goes off, and radio starts working again") so I didn't mind seeing it twice. And one meme/image showed up as a solid black square(?!?) Right after the bit of text about how it's apparently illegal not to pay taxes to a certain particular country, a solid black image? (Why won't I name the country? Just being cautious, I don't want my comment to get censored.)
You always find such good thought-provoking memes, so I am happy to be a subscriber!
So far I have not figured out how to delete double posts such as the car one. Nor have I figured out posting outside links but this was more a test run.
Regarding the blacked out meme it said stuff when I downloaded it. I thought the print was too small to read on my tiny phone screen. It regarded residents of a town in Texas with 70,000 people who determined they were spending $4.4 million annually to support Israel. They thought this money should go to more local uses instead and the city counsel voted on it. Governor Abbott then informed them that it was illegal not to give the money over to a foreign state for ethnic cleansing because that is against the anti BDS legislation passed in many states. It's getting to the point where the only moral thing to do is denounce earning money entirely...
Wow. Yay for that town in Texas, at least they’re trying something. Do you think it was some sort of technical glitch that made that image look like a solid black square? I don’t want to suggest that Substack is censoring but that sounds like the type of content that has gotten censored on other platforms.
Did you try plugging a USB keyboard into the broken laptop?
I thought of the keyboard option but my USB also was fried with my keyboard (worked fine before that). Now a bluetooth keyboard might work though I'd have to login as guest since I can't put in my password. But I decided to wait on the new notebook instead...
It wouldn't surprise me if the subway incident turns out to have been staged by Big Brother to increase support for surveillance.
All your data belong to us
Surveillance shit is about to get real
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/all-your-data-belong-to-us
And the surveillance will add nothing but more disfunction. Now you will just have more angles of it! Unless authorities decide to redact for national security or the cameras are all turned off...
Sorry, don't mean to be didactic, but it adds a lot, a lot of evil...
"For too long we thought privacy was individual in nature, that it had to do mostly with personal preferences around concealment and exposure. And we let surveillance tech creep in. But we were wrong. Privacy is about the power of the citizenry; it’s a vital pillar of liberal democracy. And moves ... towards surveillance are power grabs not coincidentally associated with authoritarian tendencies. To watch surveillance further unfold, with its political implications more obvious by the day, is extremely concerning. Surveillance is not a neutral tool — it’s an instrument of social control."
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/all-your-data-belong-to-us
Yeah I stopped buying booze at the big box grocery when they started scanning my license. No thanks! Of course this is minor in the grand scheme but it was a red flag for me.
They do that in California for all weed purchases. They are entered into a computer, saved somewhere, and who knows where it's at.
I was replying to Kat Bro, but my response became too lengthy and unwieldly.
A propós having our driver's licenses scanned now to purchase alcohol....
I had a similar incident occur in Sprouts over the winter. I bought two bottles of highly rated Merlot (I was making a stew a la beef bourguignon) 3-4 months ago at an incredibly cheap price (on sale...thus, I was also stocking up), and the cashier asked me my birthdate with a full line of people in back of me. I realized that she had no option because Sprouts was requiring her to do so; gave my birthdate in public which I would have preferred not to do; and have never bought any more booze from Sprouts
I don't know what's going on...I've got white hair and look old. I haven't been asked for ID in quite a while. No one had recorded any information ever from my driver's license if they did ask to see ID. Now, apparently, more places are.
WHY?
I don't believe anyone can give an appropriate answer or response. Simply seeing the ID, if needed, should be sufficient. RECORDING your birthdate or scanning your driver's license into a computer to purchase a bottle of wine?
My suspicion? Far more AI-controlled systems exist than we think. Surveillance systems are highly developed. I’m feeling more and more certain about this possibility. Why else would anyone want to record your driver's license number/information or birthdate for an alcohol purchase? Very creepy. I think our purchases of alcohol are being recorded not only for promotion and sales (selling the data) but also for acquisition into some dossier or folder linked to us in some way.
I hate this intrusion into our lives. If the individual is over the legal age to purchase legally the alcohol, nothing further should be recorded.
I am one of very few women in my age range who is forthcoming about my birthday, but I recognize it as an invasion of privacy. Apparently they really go after smokers. I know this because I bought nicotine gum and one can of nicotine pouches in January-February when I quit smoking. They needed to scan my full ID both times. My guess is that health and life insurance companies would really want that information to raise premiums... it's dystopian
I may have died (given my advanced age) by this point, but younger people reading this thread should be particularly aware of the time when they may be refused the freedom to buy a product. The store or online company may not even give an explanation or cause; a person may try to pay, and the clerk simply says "you're not allowed" to purchase the item, or "we can't sell this product to you.
I see society as not even necessarily needing to implement digital ID. You're correct. I think the systems can become so invasive and large that a medical insurance company may block acquiring a OTC product (given their records indicating physician-prescribed medications to you); assess someone has bought too much (legal) booze or marijuana for the month; or even block someone whose medications contraindicate usage with other drugs including alcohol.
Ah, the joys of life as an ex-pat, am I right? I figure, if you live abroad long enough, eventually you will feel comfortable in your new home, but by then you're likely to feel like a stranger/foreigner in your old home country?
I'd say you did a great job of posting in spite of your technical challenges. One meme did show up twice but it was a good one (the "pothole, check engine light goes off, and radio starts working again") so I didn't mind seeing it twice. And one meme/image showed up as a solid black square(?!?) Right after the bit of text about how it's apparently illegal not to pay taxes to a certain particular country, a solid black image? (Why won't I name the country? Just being cautious, I don't want my comment to get censored.)
You always find such good thought-provoking memes, so I am happy to be a subscriber!
So far I have not figured out how to delete double posts such as the car one. Nor have I figured out posting outside links but this was more a test run.
Regarding the blacked out meme it said stuff when I downloaded it. I thought the print was too small to read on my tiny phone screen. It regarded residents of a town in Texas with 70,000 people who determined they were spending $4.4 million annually to support Israel. They thought this money should go to more local uses instead and the city counsel voted on it. Governor Abbott then informed them that it was illegal not to give the money over to a foreign state for ethnic cleansing because that is against the anti BDS legislation passed in many states. It's getting to the point where the only moral thing to do is denounce earning money entirely...
Wow. Yay for that town in Texas, at least they’re trying something. Do you think it was some sort of technical glitch that made that image look like a solid black square? I don’t want to suggest that Substack is censoring but that sounds like the type of content that has gotten censored on other platforms.
It could have been a glitch or it could be intentional manipulation. I will see if I can find the meme and try to post again...
"Do you know why I'm stopping you?"
It IS such a scam -- traffic stops. I need to memorize this response.
The jewish one is blank