Privacy is very much not dead, and may never die if cards are played right.
MRADEL90 on
Reading this on the last day of 2025 really puts the year into perspective. We spent the last 12 months obsessed with AI ‘convenience,’ but the trade-off has been the total normalization of surveillance.
​The article captures the shift perfectly: we aren’t even shocked by data harvesting anymore; we’re just exhausted. It’s not about dark rooms and hackers anymore-it’s baked into our fridges, cars, and work apps. We’ve traded digital autonomy for a friction-less life, and now ‘privacy’ feels like a luxury most of us don’t have the energy to fight for.
​Is this the tech legacy of 2025? Moving from active resistance to just hitting ‘Accept All’ because we’re too tired to do otherwise?
Many-Lengthiness9779 on
My state charges you for body cam footage.
Had LEO knock on my door requesting our footage for an incident.
I set the price at $1,000 for every 5 seconds.
My footage is saved directly on my hub not on the cloud. Felt like switching from ring to my new setup paid for itself in that moment.
rnilf on
> What we are seeing in the last year is an escalation by law enforcement of what they are doing in our communities, including sending armed, masked thugs onto our streets to detain people for no reason other than that they look like they are Mexican
Everytime we take tiny baby steps towards a better future, we keep electing horrible people that take us back to this kind of America.
If only more people cared enough to help vote to put us on the right path. Kamala would not have fixed these issues overnight, but she would have been a step in the right direction, even just a miniscule step would’ve been better than this. I don’t think it’s crazy to think we wouldn’t be experiencing this if she were elected.
People would be complaining about her wearing Converses in the Oval Office, instead of living in fear of being profiled for their skin color.
Worth-Ad9939 on
If we weren’t so lazy we’d create community programs that address the poison of capitalism.
Very obvious pathways that address the education gaps (tax/debt). Then the rest. All of the traps laid bare for all to see and understand.
Nothing stops us from doing this.
They would need to be in person and self sustaining, consistent and broadly available.
If we were as clever as we all seem to think we are, we’d delete Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and all the others. Dial it back to grass and sunshine. Only connect in person. And choose this option more frequently than digital pathways.
If we were the shit we’d delete cars, and get that methane sat back online. Tie those wells to the families that left them leaking methane and blocking their disclosure.
Idk. If we had our shit together we might ask those uncomfortable questions more often. We could ask for feedback and listen.
This path isn’t sustainable. We know this. We all feel it. I can’t get invested in anything beyond my spouse, a sense of another shoe yet to drop.
I suspect we all feel something is off about this moment. Shaped by hidden and not so hidden agendas that gen pop ain’t a priority for anymore.
They know how to shape our behaviors with fine control. Social media has given them the keys to our brains. Modern Marketing did the work and they have the strings.
All of these stories are simply reminders of how far out of alignment we are with our true nature and destiny. This isn’t where we should be. They locked up the map and shaped the narrative to get us hooked and deeply invested in their success knowing we’d never voluntarily experience pain for no immediate and direct rewards. We’re frozen from the overstimulation, and cannot find the horizon.
The cure is self awareness and discovery. Consistent expressions of curiosity and empathy. Reflection on our role in this. The actions we took that let the worst of us succeed. Perform the autopsy. Study how we got here and take it all in. That is the point of life and our only way out of this loop.
koolaidismything on
Yeah that’s not going to last long. Once it’s us versus them the us always loses while the them sit in luxury not fighting anything but obesity.
Part of the reason why there is an attempt to ban all DJI drones in the US before they become too good by implementing advanced camera features, face recognition, effective tracking and obstacle avoidances, super extended battery life, and AI feature sets. Today’s drone are good but they’re not great….getting there. In 10 years, they would have been super great but DJI not anymore. Instead only available to the People, you get the consumer version watered down de-neutered version of the US military variant intended for basic civilian use.
AbledShawl on
As much? Do we have access to government media fusion databases?Â
Exciting_Turn_9559 on
Way more of us than there are of them, and our cameras don’t mysteriously stop rolling when shit goes down.
ragnarlothschrute on
Boring dystopia
Train_Driver68 on
Our small town received federal money to put up LPR (license plate readers) at several major intersections. Not a fan of Big Brother studying my coming and going, anywhere
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Privacy is very much not dead, and may never die if cards are played right.
Reading this on the last day of 2025 really puts the year into perspective. We spent the last 12 months obsessed with AI ‘convenience,’ but the trade-off has been the total normalization of surveillance.
​The article captures the shift perfectly: we aren’t even shocked by data harvesting anymore; we’re just exhausted. It’s not about dark rooms and hackers anymore-it’s baked into our fridges, cars, and work apps. We’ve traded digital autonomy for a friction-less life, and now ‘privacy’ feels like a luxury most of us don’t have the energy to fight for.
​Is this the tech legacy of 2025? Moving from active resistance to just hitting ‘Accept All’ because we’re too tired to do otherwise?
My state charges you for body cam footage.
Had LEO knock on my door requesting our footage for an incident.
I set the price at $1,000 for every 5 seconds.
My footage is saved directly on my hub not on the cloud. Felt like switching from ring to my new setup paid for itself in that moment.
> What we are seeing in the last year is an escalation by law enforcement of what they are doing in our communities, including sending armed, masked thugs onto our streets to detain people for no reason other than that they look like they are Mexican
Everytime we take tiny baby steps towards a better future, we keep electing horrible people that take us back to this kind of America.
If only more people cared enough to help vote to put us on the right path. Kamala would not have fixed these issues overnight, but she would have been a step in the right direction, even just a miniscule step would’ve been better than this. I don’t think it’s crazy to think we wouldn’t be experiencing this if she were elected.
People would be complaining about her wearing Converses in the Oval Office, instead of living in fear of being profiled for their skin color.
If we weren’t so lazy we’d create community programs that address the poison of capitalism.
Very obvious pathways that address the education gaps (tax/debt). Then the rest. All of the traps laid bare for all to see and understand.
Nothing stops us from doing this.
They would need to be in person and self sustaining, consistent and broadly available.
If we were as clever as we all seem to think we are, we’d delete Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and all the others. Dial it back to grass and sunshine. Only connect in person. And choose this option more frequently than digital pathways.
If we were the shit we’d delete cars, and get that methane sat back online. Tie those wells to the families that left them leaking methane and blocking their disclosure.
Idk. If we had our shit together we might ask those uncomfortable questions more often. We could ask for feedback and listen.
This path isn’t sustainable. We know this. We all feel it. I can’t get invested in anything beyond my spouse, a sense of another shoe yet to drop.
I suspect we all feel something is off about this moment. Shaped by hidden and not so hidden agendas that gen pop ain’t a priority for anymore.
They know how to shape our behaviors with fine control. Social media has given them the keys to our brains. Modern Marketing did the work and they have the strings.
All of these stories are simply reminders of how far out of alignment we are with our true nature and destiny. This isn’t where we should be. They locked up the map and shaped the narrative to get us hooked and deeply invested in their success knowing we’d never voluntarily experience pain for no immediate and direct rewards. We’re frozen from the overstimulation, and cannot find the horizon.
The cure is self awareness and discovery. Consistent expressions of curiosity and empathy. Reflection on our role in this. The actions we took that let the worst of us succeed. Perform the autopsy. Study how we got here and take it all in. That is the point of life and our only way out of this loop.
Yeah that’s not going to last long. Once it’s us versus them the us always loses while the them sit in luxury not fighting anything but obesity.
I was paywalled. Here’s the [archive](https://archive.ph/2025.12.29-113000/https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-surveillance-state/) link for anyone else who was
Part of the reason why there is an attempt to ban all DJI drones in the US before they become too good by implementing advanced camera features, face recognition, effective tracking and obstacle avoidances, super extended battery life, and AI feature sets. Today’s drone are good but they’re not great….getting there. In 10 years, they would have been super great but DJI not anymore. Instead only available to the People, you get the consumer version watered down de-neutered version of the US military variant intended for basic civilian use.
As much? Do we have access to government media fusion databases?Â
Way more of us than there are of them, and our cameras don’t mysteriously stop rolling when shit goes down.
Boring dystopia
Our small town received federal money to put up LPR (license plate readers) at several major intersections. Not a fan of Big Brother studying my coming and going, anywhere