The Surveilled Student (2021)
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They use zero-party audio recording to detect 'gunshots' (why the fuck does a school need this to detect gunshots which will be heard throughout the whole school? Are they expecting the world's quietest silencer?) And I put in quotes, because gunshots here seems like a thinly veiled way to try and finagle around illegally recording people.
They also invade the bathrooms with 'vape' detectors that smell the children at all times to make sure they are in compliance.
Interesting though I've seen these spiral dots before but didn't know what it was
To establish a timeline (and a sense of 'due diligence') for the inevitable deposition.
How the hell else are they supposed to act? I genuinely don't blame the schools here. I blame every single person who expects the schools to hold all encompassing control over a group of kids.
Since when?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/right-wing-extremists-schools...
It's not the same as first grade students being monitored by their teachers, regardless of what sibling commentors have to say.
Anecdotally, I see Xennial/Millennial 'helicopter' parents expect universities to take broad, often intrusive measures for the well-being of their children, and their (legally) adult children tend to go along with that expectation.
I think that there is exactly one correct direction to take here, which is that direct human interaction is the most valuable thing, both in learning and in keeping students mentally and physically healthy. Every single surrogate for that inevitably will make all of these aspects worse.
It amuses me that my rave groups already did contact tracing for respiratory illnesses before the pandemic and perhaps because of the large Asian friend group I’m part of we wore masks in more normal contexts when we had a cold.
To be honest, most of the people designing the interventions are just generally short of mental horsepower and strong in self-belief. So they come up with novel approaches that aren’t really required. The fact that there are students who aren’t pro-social on campus complicated things but that’s a self-imposed problem.
It can’t be helped: this is what happens with The Sort. If they were smarter they wouldn’t be college admins.
Yeah I'm pretty sure they don't have to wear heart monitors now.
The problem with the information such technology affords, however, is that any primitive-minded human may misuse or abuse what they get out of it.
The human mind has not wholly updated beyond family or tribe level self-preservation, but I guess some results have yielded from prior waves of cultural evolution. The only practical advice is that one should try to build in safeguards against abuse and misuse.
I can't imagine such ideas being floated elsewhere. Certainly not without significant protest.
So much for the land of the free.
And with "noticed" I mean they told us.
What actually changed from 2021 to now besides GenAI?
“Okay, but that’s worse.”
Yea, I don't know where that idea came from. Maybe the Boomer generation when machines didn't have practically unlimited storage and internet access where that data then can be crawled over by countless algorithms to judge your life and how you'll live from now on.