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by blue_pancake 2755 days ago
This is unnerving. I don't really have an issue with people who commit fraud being caught in the act. It still bothers me that we're closing out the 2010s and most of what we've achieved as an industry is make it easier for employers to surveil their people.

The story of the 20th century included a moon landing and ubiquitous personal computers. The 21st century's story seems to be about advertisers, health insurers, and employers using technology to get every edge on the common people that they can get.

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Being able to find reference material, how-tos, self-paced, self-led education seems like a really good thing we’ve achieved as asiciety. Obvs this carries over from the last years of prev century, but it’s now uniquitous.
That was the story of the late 20th century. The story of the early 20th century was industrialized warfare killing 37 million people because a prince got shot.