@attacus_au Arsenic trioxide -> waste product for cheap -> used to kill mice and cockroaches Arsenic -> color pigment in green -> pesticide by farmer, vibrant green color People being posisoned by arsenic in playing cards, famous art, fabris, wallpaper shadows from the walls of death -- in your face presentation of the problem quick way to make money, inheritence powder, digital privacy and lack thereof Metadata retention, dodgy apps, issues with government and privacy disapropionately affect people such as arsenic very cool analogy between data dumps / arsenic most people are stil "meh" about this issue resigned to the fact that horrible things are happening and they cant seem to do anything about it Peak Indifference -- most people give the least of a damn awareness of problems reistance to the problems - reading skill, general scientific research increased - concepts of germs, disease, checmicasl glutens becamr understood People were now a bit less casual about poisoning each other Accessible Alternatives for everybody unrealistic to expect that suddenly everyone would develop scientific understanding maybe this would work with data and privacy ? Privacy -- firefox builds ad-browsers into browsers now -- Apple markets privacy -- calling out companies, pressure them into changing -- password managers -- why does it still feels like nothing changed ? TIME , arsenic took time to set in, privacy is different time is the key ingredient, we have to keep going with it and not giving up fact-check corporate privacy spin, invests money into saying its doing the right thing hold them accountable ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- average person in 19th century isnt a chemist average person in 21st century isnt a hacker - people will still think we're paranoid - we can make a change just like back them - we can understand the damage and suffering caused by invasive surveillance ----------------------------------------------------------------------------