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It’s not really surprising that people are becoming more distrustful and cynical about tech (and everything else) when there’s a constant drumbeat of stories, like this, about a seemingly innocuous game/tool/website harvesting data that is then used for murderous purposes:
MOTHERFUCKER
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
this drawing is part of the art pack too
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which is on sale till sunday!
In the pre-surveillance capitalism era, you just did not have to worry about if playing a Pokémon game on your GameBoy was actually supporting the development of deadly military tech
psychologically, I don’t think it’s good you now absolutely do have to worry about this with most any tech device.
zoom on a lil detail from a commission i'm working on