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#DisciplinaryTechnology

"who knew poop shaming was even a thing?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/194trv8/who_knew_poop_shaming_was_even_a_thing/

#DisciplinaryTechnology #Bossware #SIgns #Poop

A sheet of letter-sized printer paper taped to a grey wall. It reads:

Please Be Seated

The lighting timer has been optimized according to the Cleveland Clinics standard time for a Bow Movement. When the lights go out, you have exceeded the average time needed. BM's beyond the lighting timer should done on personal time, not company time. Thank you.

Beneath this is a QR code that decodes to:

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-long-should-it-take-you-to-have-a-bowel-movement/

When you're self-employed, everyone is your boss

#Bossware #RingCamera #CCTV #NOLA #PorchPirates #DisciplinaryTechnology

A Ring camera mounted next to a sign on an orange-painted shiplap siding. The sign has the logos for USPS, Amazon, FedEx and UPS. It reads:

DO NOT LEAVE PACKAGES ON PORCH!!!
Please leave packages behind right gate
using code on file. You are being recorded
and stolen items are submitted for refund.

Creepy fitbits vs less crowded prisons

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model-ee025ad60951

#DisciplinaryTechnology

Fulton County’s jails are in real trouble: “[Inmates] are sleeping on the floor in plastic trays. Cell doors hang off hinges, footage from one local news report shows, and leaked water pools on the floor in some areas. Last September, one person was found dead and covered in bed bugs.”

The funding to buy Talitrix tracking bracelets is part of an emergency cash infusion triggered by outrage (and litigation risk) over these inhumane conditions.

But the hundreds of sensors being studded throughout the county’s jails and the expensive tracking cuffs are obviously solving the wrong problems, like “how do we stop prisoners living under these inhumane conditions from erupting in violence, or taking their own lives?”

(For avoidance of doubt, the right question to answer is “How do we eliminate these inhumane conditions and focus on rehabilitation?”)

The #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve Has a Business Model

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model-ee025ad60951

#PrisonTech #FultonCounty #DisciplinaryTechnology

A jail cell, seen through the bars. Bundles of US $100 bills are piled up on the floor of the cell.

Image:
Flying Logos (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_$1,000,000_dollars_in_USD_$100_bill_stacks.png

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