I like David Cronenberg’s approach. Make it visually horrific, but so alien that you don’t know how to visually parse it and it just overloads your brain into ‘blech’ territory.
Loved The Thing and Videodrome for this style of horror.
Otherwise, give me omnipotent horror. Things like Oculus really get me.
Watched the full thing as soon as I got home. Such an absolutely wild ride. Always a fan of Burback.
The way it just takes even subtle suggestions and just runs with them full sprint. It’s no wonder I’ve already had to cut off one of my friends due to AI delusions and I’ve been in a few arguments with others. It’s way too good at sounding like it knows what it’s talking about.
I’m a Tarantino fan. He doesn’t have a massive collection of movies, but you could teach an entire college course on just the few movies he’s put out with all the interesting things he does.
There’s something with his approach to directing that just makes me believe the story so well, even if it’s outrageous.
This is missing the point that in this example, you have to choose who you’re targeting, find someone at the DMV to bribe, get away with the bribe, and even then, this is limited info.
The difference here is that people are willingly handing their data to the parties that want it, bypassing our DMV buddy entirely.
It’s a case of perfect being the enemy of good. I’m not saying this information isn’t available. I’m saying we shouldn’t be in the habit of handing it out.
These are all things that would need to be individually tracked down or requested and in government-controlled databases. It’s not just the government that has that data now. It’s the camera manufacturer and their 800 partners. And it’s all in one place.
It’s data that individually may not be important to you specifically, but combined, that’s enough information to easily start manipulating you, whether it’s directly or through advertising.
It’s not just about what data is collected, but also who has access.
I explained this to my boss the other day about the cameras he picked up for his house. He was like, “I don’t have anything that I care about them collecting.” To which I mentioned the fact that they now know:
Where he lives
What he looks like
How many devices are on the network
How many/how old his kids are
What times they are home
What types of food they have delivered and how often
Who they have as guests and how often
The list goes on. There are so many things people can find out about you when you don’t make it easy. Putting a 3rd party camera in your house, though? Now you’re just handing it over.
The number of ways I’ve found to “win” against the modern internet over the years… My favorite is the trick of copying tables. In Firefox, if you hold Alt and drag, you can grab clean table data to copy paste into whatever spreadsheet you need. Take that, overly-complicated webpage!
I’m in a similar boat. I’ve been producing music for nearly ten years in Ableton, including stuff for some local theater, but this will be my first year releasing an album. Making music takes a lot of time and effort, I found out.
I agree with everything here, but this was at one point the case with pancake gaming. I’m not saying that we deserve it, but it’s always been the tradeoff with Linux. I’ve never gotten a Linux system running with the expectation that it will work 100%. I admittedly essentially dropped my use of VR when I switched, but it comes down to a cost benefit analysis.
I just made the choice that an OS that wasn’t fully functional was better than an OS that didn’t respect me as a user. I’d much rather things not work in good faith than to have a working product progressively made worse for financial gain.
What grounds? First I’ve heard of this.