And Rite Aid started making their own little database of shoplifters based on grainy pictures that employees had taken or things that they’d seen other places. It really wasn’t very accurate. But the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection said that Rite Aid’s, quote, reckless use of facial surveillance systems left its customers harmed and facing humiliation after falsely tagged consumers, often women, people of color, as shoplifters, or maybe keyed off of that beer face they had.

So I guess you got on a no shop list, kind of like the TSA’s no fly list. In some instances, Rite Aid employees followed people who had been incorrectly matched around the store, made them leave before they completed their purchases. Yeah, no shoplift called the police on them, publicly accused them of shoplifting. According to the FTC complaint. We live in a Stasi society. Maybe they should call one of these apps one of these programs.

Maybe they should call it Stas AI. That’d be catchy, right? Stasi. You can even call it the. This is the security trained and zero theft artificial intelligence Stasi. So I’m just waiting to see when one of these companies is going to use that name. Thousands. That’s how many false positive matches Rite Aid’s system generated from 2012 to 2020. They used low quality photos, some of which came from Rite Aid’s security cameras or employees’phones, or news stories.

They’re grabbing this stuff from everywhere. The technology falsely matched people with customers who were flagged, quote, based on activity thousands of miles away, and sometimes flagged the same person at dozens of different stores across the country to create their no shop list. So this is what we have to understand is going to happen, what it’s going to be like, life in the orwellian society. When I think about Brazil, one of my favorite films done by Terry Gilliam, who was the illustrator for Monty Python.

It’s kind of his dark comedy take of 1984. And the whole thing begins with a case of mistaken identity. They’re looking for a guy who is a terrorist. I forget if his name was Tuttle or, you know, the printer malfunctions after a fly falls into it because all the technology is kind of messed up as it always is going to be in a totalitarian society. And they get bottle instead of Tuttle.

The guy that they’re actually looking for is a heating and air conditioning engineer who doesn’t like bureaucracy. And so he goes around and fixes people’s stuff because they can’t get the heating and air conditioning people to come around on a timely basis, and it’s unauthorized repair. And that classifies him as a terrorist. Is that beyond the scope of the country that we live in right now, where you have parents who show up and.

Thank you, Travis. He didn’t know I was going to talk about this. I didn’t either. We have people who show up and this is how it begins. This lady is taking a bath, and all of a sudden there’s an explosion and they just break through the ceiling and all the rest of the stuff. At the point in time where he did that in 1984, the kind of over the top SWAT raids that now have become commonplace was really, really over the top.

But of course, there they are coming through the ceiling. They bag and tagged the guy and taken him. You know, is that really all that strange compared to where we are today? I mean, isn’t the Biden administration headed down this road? We’re going to ban heating and air conditioning units. When are they going to ban the repair of them? Right? Because they got to get them out of there so they don’t want them repaired.

I wouldn’t be surprised. And if we got people speaking at school board meetings labeled as terrorists by the Biden administration, how far away are we from Brazil? Not very far at all. This is why you look at these dark, satanic, dystopian, even satires that are 40 years old, and it’s like, yeah, that’s where we live now. Here we are 40 years after 1984, and it’s all around us, isn’t it? Ge is releasing new smart ovens, smart self monitoring and reporting technology to spy on you.

Remember a few years ago when David Petraeus was head of the CIA and he said, yeah, we’re going to have appliances that are going to be spying on people. It’s going to be great. We’ll know what people are doing and going to be able to spy on them through their appliances. We reported that. And they said, you’re a bunch of paranoid conspiracy theorists. It’s like he said it, and here it is.

It’s right here. And you can pay extra to get your spy technology. It’s going to be powered, by the way, by Google’s generative AI, do you really want this stuff telling you how to cook the same stuff that it’s hallucinating, it’s going to hallucinate about your food or maybe what it’ll be used for. Maybe it’ll be used to report how much meat you’re eating. Well, definitely will, because that’s really the purpose of this.

They’re allied, in this particular rollout, they’re allied with Kroger and other companies in other areas. If Kroger’s not in your area, they’ll be partnering with them. And so what this is going to do is monitor and report back to Kroger everything that you’re eating. So then they can present stuff to you, or they can take that information, they can sell it to somebody else, or they can use it to try to entice you to come back into their store, give you a special.

If you haven’t been in for a while, maybe they’ll give you a special on what you like to eat and they know what you like to eat because your oven has told them. Smart ovens for dumb people who don’t realize how their goose is being cooked. That’s really the title of this segment. If we put it up as a segment, I think how long is it going to be before Kroger and the smart oven, powered by Google’s AI, says, I’m sorry, but you’ve had too much meat this month for you and you really shouldn’t be doing it.

And then eventually it’ll say, you can’t do this, you can’t do this. One more touch will add all the necessary ingredients to their Kroger family of companies cart. A simple QR code scan will guide owners to link their Kroger account the first time they try this feature, and then it’ll report everything to Kroger so they can monetize you right. You are the product and all of this stuff.

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