SuperJail Warden wrote:
What about the AI deconstructing you that makes you uncomfortable?
it should make everyone uncomfortable.
habits i formed in the 90s will probably serve me well during this age of data-scraping slop. poisoning the well of personal info. it's gratifying to see adbots and junkmail fumble for something relevant and come up short. that said, nobody wants to get muckraked and robodoxxed. much potential for real info harm out there!
my friends who've ignored pre-ai precaution, forwent data hygiene, are constantly geting nail-on-the-head adverts, seemingly pulled directly from idle conversation even. it's apparently a very creepy experience being surveilled to that extent. bUt At LeAsT wE'rE fReE.
side note, it also bothers me how much the ecosystem of my phone can change just by jumping service plans. "here let's install all these apps without your approval and there's nothing you can do about it!" delete, delete, delete, delete, delete. i want a dumb flip phone again, but these ungainly bricks have insinuated themselves into work. i don't want to read emails on a tiny screen. i'd rather not read emails at all if i'm not at a computer. smartphones have destroyed so much work/life balance that it feels like a war crime. these mobile devices were initially advertised as letting you call emergency services in a jiffy, not pull people from vacation back to the office. ruin your weekend because a little screen tells you to. this crap used to be handled on mondays, but now every business roleplays high stress stockbrokers or something. being able to disconnect from your work phone off hours needs to be a right, like in actual civilized countries.
"we were trying to get a hold of you for fifteen minutes! why didn't you pick up the phone?!" "i was on the freeway. it could wait." or the person who knows you're on the road, was just calling to chat and, and made you add another 30 minutes to your drive just finding a place to pull off to return their missed call. thanks! fw: fwp
dead horse anyway, i've been on about this before.
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2026-07-20 11:09:47)