jkestner

> - Where did they find subjects? Volunteers, interns, exit-interviews from layoff rounds?

Standard issue for field agents in the corporate acquisitions and consulting divisions.

(Hey, Eric!)

Not even ADA - kids all get headphones to listen to education materials. Wired headphones are way, way easier to manage.

Like the little buff 12” PowerBook https://www.macworld.com/article/225194/ode-to-the-12-inch-p...

Back in the day, or even now. Kuwait’s US-supplied air defense shot down three US F15s this weekend.

Look, they’re only keeping those videos to train their model to identify CSAM and definitely not accidentally generate it.

Mostly, they want to be lied to. If we start holding power accountable, it might come around to them!

My favorite is https://pinouts.ru/

Mostly, yeah. "Yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true." https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...

If your company makes a product that does thinking for people, it’ll be easier to just gradually change its definition of evil.

It’s not the CEO’s fault - they had to take all that money to keep their org a non-profit.

B corps are like recycling programs, a nice logo.

A relative’s business has had Google reviews frozen for years. Search results show the bad rating after some former customer and spouse left bad reviews several years ago. Appeal went into a black hole. Running a small business is at the pleasure of Silicon Valley.

Good question. Quite a few, publicly. https://withpersona.com/customers

For you, maybe, but outsourcing ambient awareness of my environment is what’s finally enabled me to take that leap to a 10x dev. Well, that, and cranial cooling fins.

Cool, innovating in ways to make Siri functionally worse. Didn’t think they had another gear.

Humans can adapt more quickly than wildebeest. Join advocacy groups for your own morale, continue to get better at communicating these dangers to the mainstream, be that person who offers alternatives to your non-technical circle.

Yeah, it’s a timing thing. Government surveillance with commercial partnerships is more aggressive now, and the stories are chipping away at our collective ignorance until something like this connects the dots for people. I’m off in my corner of culture and don’t watch social video so I didn’t appreciate the work that streamers/explainers have done to alert normal people to these problems. But those videos were more effective at getting Flock out of my city than any canvassing I did. It’s nice to see conspiracy brains turned to an actual cabal.

At least for conservatives who still value those principles when their party is in office, true. Sedona’s successful anti-Flock effort was led by Trump voters.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/flock-haters-cro...

They implement a physical Tor each time their check their box - layers of Taskrabbits hiring Taskrabbits. One picks up the Mail and hands it off to the next. The owner is one of the Taskrabbits somewhere in the chain.

You might like the updates from my current project. It’s got it all—-tariff surprises, flaky suppliers, switching manufacturing processes midstream, and most of all, the slog: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/pickup-...

Pixels dice have also been going on a “fun” journey with the weight of a huge crowdfunding raise. I’ve been following their updates with sympathy: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixels-dice/pixels-the-...

> You can help by being curious about what they're saying, reflecting it back to them in your own terms

Yes! Be an emotional rubber duck.

Most of us vote in states where it doesn’t matter if you make a statement with your ballot.

There are dozens of us. Loved the Lumia hardware, loved maybe not that lack of polish in places but the overall UI vision was mostly well executed. Its rigid experience across apps feels quaint now, but if we had this focus now, we wouldn’t be seeing the Light Phone, b/w UI hacks, etc pop up.

1. Start more fires

2. Find more fires

3. Profit

Like any good startup.

Maybe Flock sales was going door-to-door in your area.

Sedona (with a handy timeline of how they accomplished it) https://livefreeaz.com

Bend, OR https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/08/bend-flock-cameras-ai...

Hays County, TX https://www.kxan.com/news/hays-county-votes-to-terminate-flo...

Lockhart, TX preemptively rejected them https://www.kxan.com/news/local/caldwell-county/lockhart-cit...

Working on it in our city. Flock has been their own worst enemy—once people know the name of the company, they start seeing it in the news regularly. Start talking to people, show up at city meetings.

You only have to pay for the Pro version. As a replacement for Spotlight the free version does great for me.

That laggy behavior plus indexing not appearing to find some obvious files made me switch to Raycast.

In my experience, people respond much more strongly to naming a specific company or person. Clearer plan of action than a resigned “This tech is old news.”

What queer book with that content was in libraries?

I don't know. Is it better that it's obvious or not? I was thinking a buttonhole camera linked to your phone with an LED indicator when recording.

A friend of mine in school had a similar thought - make body cams so cheap that everyone has one. Watch the watchmen.

I’ve considered making this a commercial reality, but we’ve seen that ubiquitous cameras don’t necessarily stop cops or authoritarians from kneeling on your neck, if they don’t feel shame.

Art doesn’t smoothly fit in, it imposes.

Clearly there’s a market for Netflix background noise, but no one’s going to theme parks for that.