Was discussing the neighbor's insistence that the gardeners kill everything yesterday ("they nuked the yard with Roundup" I said) and now my son is getting Roundup ads on Facebook. Yesterday, I mentioned one of my kids' names (which is very close to a brand) and that brand is being advertised to him, too. (I deleted Facebook long ago and will never load it or any of its software, because of that creepy snooping). I guess his generation just assumes they are being listened to all the time... #advertising#surveillance
@ai6yr I don’t know if you are a podcast guy, but the latest episode of the podcast Search Engine about facial recognition search engines is one of the creepier things I’ve heard lately. Everything is being scraped.
@Lazarou@LALegault All my neighbors appear to have grown up in both the age and socioeconomic group where "nature" is scary/unwanted and you need to kill anything that moves/is not a landscaping plant. Probably a result of where I live (suburbs) + age group of these folks. I wonder if they just had too many TV dinners as children or ingested too much plastic.
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