They Tracking Everyone - Wednesday!
Yo, good morning! It’s Wednesday, we’re 60% there, almost to the weekend. How are you all doing? One of the biggest problems I have with being an adult is you get to this point where, if you want something, you’re just like, “Well, I can afford it, can I get it?” And then you’re like, “But do I need it?” And a lot of times, I lose that battle. Because when I say, “Do I need it?” I’ll find a reason why I need it.
That’s why this thing is horrible… I just got these XR glasses in the mail, and I’m kind of scared, but let’s check them out. I look dorky wearing these! What these are, are XR glasses. They’re not like Apple Vision Pro or the fancy ones, they basically just throw a freaking giant screen in front of you so you can connect your HDMI devices, your phones, your laptops to them, and you can “see the future.” I don’t know. I’m doing a lot of traveling this year, so I figured… I kept wanting these when I was on the airplane going to Aruba. I was like, “I need those, I need those!” And then I have a lot of travel planned next year, and they were on sale. They were like $110 off – no, $140 off! So I was like, “Dude, I feel like if I’m going to eventually get them, I should just get them now.” Let’s see how they are, though. Well, the fit was kind of snug, so hopefully they’re good. Otherwise, back to Amazon you go!
Anyways, I hope you guys are having a great day. Have we become so numb to data privacy and the world watching us? There was this thing Wired published yesterday where they showed you can buy data from companies. Data brokers sell this data that they collect from your cell phones, from cell towers, and all ISPs and stuff. And they’re basically able to uniquely identify and track people from military bases, to their various extracurriculars be it brothels, strip clubs, restaurants, all that kind of stuff. As a society, we’ve become really, really numb to the whole notion that we’re being tracked. We all know we’re being tracked; it’s just a reality we’ve now kind of accepted. We’re like, “Oh, nothing bad’s happening.” But it’s crazy, right? That foreign governments can literally buy information about us, know exactly our movements, and if they wanted to target us, know exactly how to target us – including people from the military. Insane world, man.
You’ve sometimes just got to hit “No, do not track me” and then hope that’s enough. But you never know. Scary world we live in. Does anyone actually care? Do you watching this ever think, “Yo, I need to start hitting ‘no’ on all those tracking things?” Or have you also just become numb to it? Because I know I’ve become numb to it while still being aware of it, which I don’t know if being aware of it makes it any better. But everyone I know is just… no one thinks twice about it. How about y’all?
Anyways, if you’re on the West Coast, stay safe. Those storms look crazy. Till the next one, though, I’m going to go play with these XR glasses. Peace!
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