Tessa Fights Robots

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Smart Cattlewear for All the Citizens, Please, Sooner

I wish I were joking but unless we wake up and refuse to do this, we'll be wearing smart cattlewear

Tessa Lena
Mar 14, 2023
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Let us talk about smartmasks.

Ever since the beginning of the COVID saga, I’ve suspected that one of its end goals was to normalize “smart” facewear. Little by little, circumstance by circumstance, message by message—and in the end of the trajectory, everybody would wear smartmasks and other smart devices for the head and assume it’s normal.

Normalizing “smart” facewear is a win-win for all fascists. It’s a very lucrative “product adoption curve” for Big Tech—and extremely consistent with how they’ve been going about their “product adoption curves” since day one of the industry’s existence. It is also tremendously useful to the totalitarian types in the gov. And the treasure trove of yummy “new oil” biometric data for the delight of all fascists? Dear God, there will be so much yummy biometric data!

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