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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:14:56 JST Aral Balkan

   • Ericka Simone
   • Broadwaybabyto

   “Microsoft to install facial-recognition technology in stores, which could be used to identify individual customers: When a shopper approaches the shelf, she would see a price calibrated specifically for her. The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile. Retailers could use shopper data to charge higher prices to those who can afford to pay more.”

   https://www.thenation.com/article/society/retail-grocery-automation-esl-kroger/

   It’s OK, if you don’t like it, you can just simply not buy food.

   #surveillance #capitalism #microsoft #BigTech #dystopia

   Via @ErickaSimone & @broadwaybabyto

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     CyberFrog (froge@social.glitched.systems)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:36:18 JST CyberFrog

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     • Ericka Simone
     • Broadwaybabyto

     @aral@mastodon.ar.al @ErickaSimone@mastodon.social @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca catch me hacking this algorithm and releasing information to the public to trick the system into believing everyone is impoverished, algorithmically driving Microsoft's profits into the dirt, and allowing thousands to buy items at a relative discount.
     
     I promise me and those like me have infinitely more time and energy to fuck this up than the corporations have to fix it, I'll make it my lifelong side project to lose them vast amounts of money with the same technology they built to exploit people lol

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:37:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Broadwaybabyto
     • CyberFrog

     @froge @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto Which is great and more power to you but we could also burn this damn system to the ground and ensure these fuckers can’t pull this sort of crap to begin with. (And build and support the alternatives.)

     But, yeah, sabotage works too – thank you for your service :)

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:40:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jenny List
     • Kev

     @kevred @JennyList I’m not even sure plausible deniability is high on their list at the moment; they’re very much saying the quiet parts out loud.

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     Kev (kevred@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:40:43 JST Kev

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     • Jenny List

     @JennyList @aral while using “AI did it” for plausible deniability… “how did that happen?”

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     Jenny List (jennylist@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:40:44 JST Jenny List

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     Something tells me this will be used to chatge black people more and keep them out of the stores.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:45:51 JST Rich Felker

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     • Broadwaybabyto
     • CyberFrog

     @froge @aral @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto Um, they charge higher prices if they think you're impoverished...

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     OutOfSpace (outofspace@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:50:50 JST OutOfSpace

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     @aral
     To "charge higher prices to those who can afford to pay more" sounds good though. Of course there is an easier way: taxes.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
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     Claudius (claudius@darmstadt.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:50:50 JST Claudius

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     @OutOfSpace @aral That's also the marketing line that is supposed to make this sound more reasonable and just.

     In reality it will be: "based on available data we predict that you desperately need this. We charge a 500% premium just for you in these circumstances".

     (also see: Uber Surge Pricing; Uber has been accused to charge more when battery is nearly dead - Uber denies this: https://www.vice.com/en/article/uber-surge-pricing-phone-battery/ )

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     Ericka Simone (erickasimone@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 18:32:09 JST Ericka Simone

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     • Kev

     @aral @kevred @JennyList
     *Narrator Voice*
     They were ALWAYS saying the quiet part out loud.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 18:37:39 JST 翠星石

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     • Ericka Simone
     • Broadwaybabyto
     @aral @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto Thankfully this attempt will likely fail, due to how shoddy microsoft's software is, but eventually they may decide to stop using their software and they might succeed.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:38:05 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Mr. Framework :verified_gay:

     @akalanka @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto Right after the last one.

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     Mr. Framework :verified_gay: (akalanka@masto.es)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:38:06 JST Mr. Framework :verified_gay:

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     @aral @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto it is terrible to see how Trump's second term is going to basically be about the biggest transfer of wealth from the worse-off to the better-off the world has ever seen

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     Die™ar Johannes (admin_backup@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:40:19 JST Die™ar Johannes

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     • Broadwaybabyto

     @aral @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto shops? People still go to physical shops? Who are they and what drives them?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:40:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Die™ar Johannes

     @admin_backup @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto I’d imagine a desire to get away from bullshit like this online.

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     javalps (javalps@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:42:39 JST javalps

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     • Ericka Simone
     • Broadwaybabyto

     @aral @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto What the hell is happening in #America ?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:42:39 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ericka Simone
     • Broadwaybabyto
     • javalps

     @javalps @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto It’s a long list… but this shit isn’t just happening in America. It’s also going to get rammed down our throats elsewhere if we’re not vigilant.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:44:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Andrea Grandi 🦕
     • Ericka Simone
     • Broadwaybabyto

     @andreagrandi @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto * for now…

     Tomorrow, Trump: “And unless you change your laws to allow our bullshit, I will <insert latest threat here>.”

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     Andrea Grandi 🦕 (andreagrandi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:44:17 JST Andrea Grandi 🦕

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     • Broadwaybabyto

     @aral @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto illegal, at least in EU. Customers can't be charged different prices for the same thing.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:57:42 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ericka Simone
     • Wandering Star
     • Broadwaybabyto

     @pawsplay @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto Fast forward ten years: what happens when it’s every store?

     This needs to be nipped in the bud.

     (Historic reference: online shopping.)

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     Wandering Star (pawsplay@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:57:43 JST Wandering Star

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     • Ericka Simone
     • Broadwaybabyto

     @aral @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto If I walk into a store and see digital price readouts, I'm probably walking right out.

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     Rob Williamson (eswag@dju.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 17:47:57 JST Rob Williamson

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     • Broadwaybabyto

     @aral @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto

     Who among us doesn't have a subsistence farm in the backyard of the house they definitely can afford?

     Personally, I tire of consuming the food industry's products and services. Now, you'll excuse me while I start the daily grind. By lunchtime I might have enough grains pulverised for some wood splinter and grit-infused flatbreads. If I start grinding now, that is. Good day to you, sir.