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https://www.adweek.com/agencies/advertising-first-union-why-marketers-should-worry/ We’re not going to back down. We can’t. We’ve come to far now. We know management stockpiled in preparation. They knew we were going to strike. They wanted us to. The government gave the police new powers and they had the trade press on their side: “enemy within”. But we can’t go back. This … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/consumer-advocacy-groups-want-walmarts-roblox-game-audited-for-stealth-marketing-to-kids/ They’ll never find out, there’s two of me. The parents are pleased I have what they call a “Saturday job” with a “good company”. It’s a mixture of testing stuff and just hanging out and looking interested. Occasionally they get some of us in to hear our ideas and then we end up testing … [Read more…]
https://newatlas.com/home-entertainment/cinebeam-portable-smart-projector-lg-pf510q/ Some of us were planning on throwing blood – well it would look like blood! Some were going for oil. I was going for a slogan. Big, in neon colours. One former graffiti artist had a more creative plan. Mine was just witty. I knew one of us was planning on using baked beans … [Read more…]
https://adage.com/article/opinion/activist-advertising-how-brands-and-agencies-can-work-positive-change/2461951 It had been great. They didn’t know what hit them. We were so many steps ahead. None of their systems were safe from us. We went where we wanted, did what we wanted. Yes, sometimes it was on the edge of legal but… Heh. Some of us were doing it just because we could. … [Read more…]
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/h-m-goes-virtual-immersive-roblox-experience/1809181 We’ve grown up here. These are our spaces. We run them. Sure, we’re different groups and we don’t all agree. We fight but we sort stuff out. We always have. We built these streets. When we didn’t like the way something looked, we took our spray cans and changed them. We didn’t ask for … [Read more…]
https://newatlas.com/military/lanius-ai-suicide-drone-bomb/ He moved in the shadows, the data shadows obviously but also the real ones. He was a target, he knew it. Embraced it sometimes. A badge of honour. Cloaking didn’t work any more, but keeping your head down made the facial rec cameras at least work a little harder. They knew how to use … [Read more…]
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/07/1009499/telepath-wants-to-enforce-kindness-can-that-ever-work/ The doctor had prescribed it after the last ‘episode’. His band had alerted his employer who had passed it on. When he was called in, he was ‘offered’ it. They said it was better than drugs, but he knew it was a money thing. He didn’t have a choice so he joined. He had … [Read more…]
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200903-the-companies-that-help-people-vanish Tonight. She never thought it would come. When she started she couldn’t have imagined she’d ever have wanted it to come. But she was a child then. She still was, she thought as yet again she turned the camera on and smiled. Tonight. It was all set. She ran through the instructions again in … [Read more…]
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