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The only ones that I buy into are the ones about that giant AT&T building in NYC with no windows that pretty much all communications route through, and the NSA building south of SLC that is storing exabytes of data. Oh and 5 eyes.
Everything we say and do that is somehow connected to a series of tubes is getting tracked y’all. I don’t know why they need to know my family’s breakfast plans or why I asked Alexa the other day for a precise step by step guide on how to manufacture a nuclear fusion bomb after watching Oppenheimer, but they are listening, they are reporting and they are tracking everything.
And honestly, I know some of the types that dig this level of surveillance, and it’s pretty unsettling that they are.