> prominently labeling one 'NSAKey' would be stupid

You highly underestimate the stupidity of Microsoft and the NSA

They won't do anything that brazen. What they'll do instead is automatically flag and remove/shadowban/depromote any problematic conversations transcribed and fed through their LLM AI bot. Same shit done for years on social media as well as youtube. Spotify is just catching up and applying the latest tech.

Or the AI gets rights and legal standing in society for it's needs, and decides to strike. There's plenty of non human things that have rights already, such as animals and corporations

David Gunkel has written a lot about this

I imagine a future where porn sites are required to automatically augment the faces of all actors involved. Why wouldn't this make sense? Actors who take up other careers will never have their real face in prior videos. All victims involved in pornography's distribution is effectively eliminated at this stage and the damage done from revenge porn becomes highly mitigated.

What's left in this, beyond the powers at be wanting to criminalize thought and fantasy?

I thought that if I gave over my retinal scans and get a bunch of worldcoins as a reward, I could use worldcoin digital passport to access all websites to prevent those pesky bots they created.

This will never be abused though! It's not just about being human, it'll be about being of legal age, not spreading "disinformation", in good legal standing, etc.
New problems created by the solution to the problem they originally created.

KeePaxxXC (linux davfs) + KeePass2Android (native webdav support) behind a shared webdav file, database protected with HMAC-SHA1 yubikeys + keyfile stored locally + static key.

For browser integration with Firefox I have KeepassXC extension. It fills in forms on sites and in apps, on android I can use the Keepass keyboard to form-fill everything including TOTP where occasionally form fields aren't detected.

This has been a solid solution for years.

I expect ALPR will eventually go away for RFID solutions - most tire manufactures are embedding unique identifiers into them that can be passively read to a scanner and are all tied to your VIN. The ALPR stuff is still very useful for tracking not just the vehicle descriptions and plates, but also the bumper stickers on a person's car - want to find every last car with a Trump sticker on it to put on a watch list? Done and done.

Already you can pull into tire shops and they know the age of your tires without looking.

Watch corporate personhood be extended to AI machines. If AI has some sort of personhood, why can't it watch movies, observe, consume and create its own art? Why can't it have the right to speech, give opinions, etc?

There's far too many political interests that will stifle WFH - Levels of revenue for real estate, retail, food, hell, vehicle sales, fuel sales, even road construction/projects cash cow might be threatened if people no longer need to commute daily.

WFH would be far better for the environment and mental health overall. Repurposing these now empty office buildings rather than new construction would also significantly help our carbon footprint as well.

California is probably the most dystopian and orwellian state in the union that has normalized this kind of stupid high tech surveillance. It's not progressive, it's regressive. Citizens that permitted states to use oppressive technology to control and monitor their citizens for so-called benevolent intentions should have predicted this outcome.

One can only wonder how many Jan 6 protestor info they CA police willingly shared with other law enforcement agencies without a wimper or concern from EFF. EFF doesn't give a shit about privacy, they only care about data sharing with laws/causes they care about. Just as evident in the recent Missouri v Biden release to not defend a liberal interpretation of the first amendment, they absolutely are mouthpieces for the state and neoliberal causes now.

Don't expect anything but partisan hypocrisy on this issue.

Quick! I desperately need this fact checked by self-appointed disinformation experts and editorial boards!

The power consumption used for video games greater than the energy strain on the energy grid by that of crypto mining. What could be more stupid consuming energy for mindless eye candy and entertainment vs. currency mining and validating transactions - something that is actually helping the greater good?