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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • No, that’s fucking delusional. The correct answer is that they know what the doctor did risked a patient’s life and/or complicated their surgery, and they don’t want to be in any way able to be received as liable.

    “Of course we wouldn’t force a doctor to leave surgery, that’s ridiculous.” Is covering their asses from lawsuit, plain and simple. If they said “oh we are sorry for the confusion” or “we are glad that the doctor took the time to resolve the issues asap, that’s great patient care” they would be immediately eviscerated in the courts.

    Their only course of action is to respond as through they’re unaware of the culture of fear they’ve created (and, tbh, they might actually fucking be unaware). This response is legal & PR 101 and regardless of their actual evil deeds is pretty much the only sane way for them to respond.







  • We live in an age where the voice can be processed locally on the phone (we’ve had on-device speech-to-text since the late 90s…), and it’s already listening for a wake word, meaning mic is always hot. It doesn’t need to be streamed and use bandwidth; it can fire off 4K of JSON every few hours and relay more than enough information.

    Just program whole dictionary of key phrases and scan the wake word buffer like you are already doing. Easy, stealthy, encrypted. Every voice assistant from a major tech company could (and likely IS) doing this.

    This also provides ample opportunity for domestic (or even foreign!) spying my state actors, too.