Cloudy and cooler as expected. The next seven days should be in the 30s and 40s with some kind of precipitation possible for most of the time. We don't have any appointments next week though I plan to take the rent check to the rental office in person. After about two months largely housebound--not even going out to the mail box several days so I wouldn't have to negotiate the ice--getting out feels really nice. We aren't, in modern times, used to being immobilized by weather. But it might become more familiar in the near future.
BLOOD IN THE MACHINE posted this article about areas where Flock cameras have been destroyed. I've watched over the last half century as we have become a surveilled society. It seems as though in the argument between "law and order" and "freedom" the first group wins. So much of this has progressed not quite in the dark but in governmental bodies that few of us pay much attention to. But when it does come to into the open people really don't like it. Robert Heinlein's character Lazarus Long said "In a government of the people, for the people--don't tell the people" or ignore the people or refuse to let them speak. That only works for so long.
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