“A surprising device is capturing the vibe of a single street corner in San Francisco” | …it’s not surveillance if it’s art

This is a few weeks old now, but still fun; it thoroughly epitomises the issue of “intent” being a major aspect of threat / that software and services are not inherently evil just because they have a particular metaphorical “shape”


https://www.npr.org/2024/10/04/nx-s1-5135714/an-old-phone-in-a-plastic-box-captures-the-cultural-vibes-of-a-san-francisco-neighborhood

…and it got spotted:

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