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A CCTV observation room, in which a blurry male figure watches a large bank of monitors. Each monitor is displaying a laughing clown, whose nose has been replaced with the menacing red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- West Midlands Police (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/westmidlandspolice/8705128684/ CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

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A CCTV observation room, in which a blurry male figure watches a large bank of monitors. Each monitor is displaying a laughing clown, whose nose has been replaced with the menacing red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- West Midlands Police (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/westmidlandspolice/8705128684/ CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 23:18:45 JST Cory Doctorow

It wasn't just Ottawa: #MicrosoftTravel published a whole *bushel* of absurd articles, including the notorious Ottawa guide recommending that tourists dine at the #Ottawa #FoodBank ("go on an empty stomach"):
https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1692233111260582161
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/23/automation-blindness/#humans-in-the-loop
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