Yeah, probably not going to be able to draw/post tomorrow due to travel.
I appreciate your comments, ratings, and subscriptions. I draw plenty of stuff that (rightfully) never sees the light of day; the feedback on these pages spurs me on!
edit: cynical adults aside, the kids really do dig ToyCo products
edit edit: Alexander's talking about living in a "VUCA" world... are you?
Yeah, similar phrasing may have come up in a point-to-point email with Microraptor.
Probably going to keep pushing these pages out so I can get done and shift fire to figuring out Webtoon... despite numerous deficiencies in that site's design and interface, the next short will probably be over there. You should probably figure out an appropriate juncture to shift as well.
Shit, a toy spying on your kids is just another day of the week. Every single cellphone is a personal tracker and electronic spying bug, and most people just live with that so they can continue playing Candy Crush or sending gossip and dick picks to each other. Good try, but people tend to either ignore or fail to understand that this is a threat unless there's a person physically present doing that spying.
It reminds me a bit of the concerns raised due to Furbies recording and repeating stuff.
(Ironically, the section in Wikipedia that talks about that mentions the NSA of all people being worried about this!)
The cynical answer to that is that the people who do the most spying in the world know as well as anybody that electronic spying is a threat. So of course they are alarmed by the idea of cheap and easy to use toy spy-bugs potentially getting used against them by other states and non-state actors.
The charitable answer to that is that the existence of innocuous, mass-market toys that are bugs or almost bugs makes protecting people against them harder. If I remember correctly, the NSA isn't only supposed to spy, it's also supposed to protect against spying.
Well that's cause to hope. You have often done a good job of showing and mocking the messed up parts of the modern world, and my complaint was a list of some of the ones most in need of it.
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Yeah, probably not going to be able to draw/post tomorrow due to travel.
I appreciate your comments, ratings, and subscriptions. I draw plenty of stuff that (rightfully) never sees the light of day; the feedback on these pages spurs me on!
edit: cynical adults aside, the kids really do dig ToyCo products
edit edit: Alexander's talking about living in a "VUCA" world... are you?