Paging Cory Doctorow, next YA MacGuffin calling…
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No, Papa! It’s not worth it! Think of the children!
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Yeah, a plastic bag.
Yes, but there’s another truism that any magician or actor will tell you - people only see what they expect to see. If they expect the cameras to track the people, they may not be looking themselves.
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So wait, they don’t get how magnets work, but they do know how to defeat facial recognition software?
This version of reality keeps getting weirder and weirder…
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I don’t trust the surveillance industry to neglect me, especially if I’m in eye-dazzler makeup. Yes, studio audiences don’t see the unexpected gorilla on the basketball court. Passers-by deliberately don’t see roadside wretches. I’m just unsure of tricks that make both humans and AIs pass over my face. I can’t wear my KISS mask all the time.
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Our society’s increasing slide into something out of cyberpunk literature has been well-noted already - this news just increases the specificity: it’s turning into something out of the Cyberpunk 2020 sourcebook.
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Lmao awesome gif find. I love how the top face just looks like he is calmly chewing some gum.
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They admit they don’t get how magnets work.
Magnets are freaky yo! Revolving electric currents and shit.
The rest of the song suggests that the Posse are of the opinion that uncovering the mechanisms behind a phenomenon dilute one’s sense of wonder.
I suspect that the opposite standpoint prevails here.
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Heh. Technically we all are, every millisecond of the day.
There’s a certain zombie undertone to this that I like, though the attention grabbing factor is off the charts.
I believe its for looking tough.
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