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A friend of mine texted me about the Shein app (Shein being a clothing store). He suspects there's AI in the app that uses the phone's camera to detect who's checking it out. So, when his 11 year old daughter uses it, it sends her pictures of pricey stuff (IE, $33 T-shirts). When he uses it, it sends pictures of cute but cheap things.

Targeted advertising.

Now, I have neither the app nor even Google Play Store on my phone. I use LineageOS & F-Droid apps. But, I figured I'd check out the Shein web site on my Fennec browser...

"For you: Emery Rose Plus Size Solid".

Eek! They think I'm fat!

"I feel empty," said Lavender, looking mournful.

"Um... maybe you need food?" suggested Craig.

"No, food is for creatures; I'm a living space. I feel empty because my residents have been gone so long."

Just then glowing circles appeared on her exposed skin. Craig felt a breeze pick up as tiny glinting things appeared out of nowhere. Each one #targeted a different circle on Lavender's arms & face, landed, & was absorbed. Lavender sighed contentedly. "That's better."

Pro-Trump disruptions in Arizona county elevate fears for the 2024 vote

With Arizona again likely to be central to Donald Trump’s electoral strategy, an incident late last month has revived fears that officials responsible for running Maricopa County elections will be #targeted with a campaign of #threats and #abuse — or worse.

“This was an organized, coordinated attack,” said one top county official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters.
“It was a dress rehearsal for the election.”

Since the 2020 vote, the Maricopa supervisors
— most of whom are Republicans
— have faced relentless public ridicule, conspiracy theories and death threats for signing off on the results and refusing to go along with Trump’s efforts to overturn the outcome.


Trump’s razor-thin loss of the state
— a mere 10,457 votes of nearly 3.4 million cast
— thrust its most important battleground county into the heart of national efforts to undermine confidence in elections.

Arizona voters in 2022 narrowly defeated Republican candidates for governor and other statewide offices who made election denialism a centerpiece of their campaigns.

The issue remains a major animating force for the state’s GOP, and Republican lawmakers have even gone so far as to 💥try to break up Maricopa County 💥in a move widely seen as retribution for the county’s role in Trump’s defeat.
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Pro-Trump disruptions in Arizona county elevate fears for the 2024 voteBy Yvonne Wingett Sanchez
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@GottaLaff @JaneDoeTheFirst @memphismary @seth_88278

I think there's a very fine line between #targeted violence and #stochastic terrorism. Both are horrible at a micro level, especially in their effects on victims and their kin directly.

But within a national perspective, is it not prudent to accept targeted violence as a mere cost of maintaining societal good? We routinely put up with stochastic violence. Why not have courage to face targeted violence? Then convict and punish perpetrators?