Greetings all,
I hope you are well on this last day of May, in the year of our Lord, 2025. Man, time is flying. I’m fulfilling a pact to post a blog at least once a month, as it seems to be the perfect frequency for me to continue enjoying the approach to blogging, something I used to do incessantly since 2007.
The blog title serves two purposes. The lesser one is an easily searchable hashtag I use on Bluesky to tag articles of interest that I plan to come back to read or want to easily find there. I do this because, unlike other social media sites like X, there is no native bookmark feature (yet) and the pinned post feed designed by another Bluesky user sort of gets the job done but sometimes that feed can go down and/or won’t show every article you’ve “saved”. The main reason for the tag is to serve as a collection of articles I’ve seen posted that shows the ever increasing prediction of what George Orwell wrote in his book, “1984”. For those not familiar with it, it predicts the future of the digital surveillance state we are under, globally. While I haven’t read the book, I am in no way surprised that the predictions are constantly coming to fruition. The sad thing is that they all seem to be unavoidable.
At the risk of being long winded and discussing aspects of the articles I have tagged over the last two months, I’ll just leave links below. I often wonder if some people, as they can be with other aspects of privacy intrusion, just accept it and don’t care, or not…I don’t know…and I don’t really care to. Anyway, the articles;
New Orleans called out for sketchiest use of facial recognition yet in the US – This one, and anything that has to do with facial recognition is, to me, probably one of the most egregious, especially with the ongoing issues facing AI facial recognition and its implications.
DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants – Three words – digital tracking collar.
ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows – First with EZ-Pass and toll lanes, now this…
There are many more to come but if you’re a Bluesky user, feel free to search on the hashtag for many more articles I came across on the topic.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post,
Oceans of rhythm,
Fresh.
