Unsurprising to me this is happening in schools, they’ve got to be ready for the low wage retail jobs many will have after graduation. A lot of places have been upgrading their phones to Zoom-enabled devices, which have the ability to record and summarize all employee conversations held near them for management or HR. I’ve worked in a couple places recently where it got rolled out and there were hints they were using it that way.

Anyone willing to call me paranoid, or supportive of the idea this tech is used this way or will be, please respond, retail isn’t really full of many tech savvy people and I’m curious if I’m imagining the capability/use of this, or if others have had similar experiences.

If this happens they should check ID at church too seeing as how children are much more likely to be abused or groomed by someone there.

The vast majority aren’t

You just know new hires there must have to watch some anodyne video about data security that mentions secure passwords too.

Mine apparently didn’t, but it’s an older Samsung. Like, micro-USB era. I’d be surprised if Google ever autoinstalls Gemini because of the age.

I’m partial to Tomatl and Ahuacatl

Like 20 years ago the RAVE Act said venues can be charged if anyone is in possession of illegal drugs inside of them during an event. Similar in some ways

Any time I see Eno’s name I get that MGMT song stuck in my head (in a good way)

https://youtu.be/_f_jaqLLPTU