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@motroet I agree, that's also why I enjoyed his take RE: Street Photography. I'll be looking into it with a different perspective going forward, although I wish plenty of other people would apply that kind of work concept & ethics towards taking photographs of people in the streets while they are minding their own business.

To me, consent matters, specially, in today's day and age of #SurveillandCapitalism. It's an important topic to discuss with others to avoid an unexpected #Panopticon.

Wow. Wasn’t May just the other day? It seems like it to me! The fifth month of our Lord bestowed much quality material on us, and there were at least 4 key releases that garnered strong, fanboying support from the AMG peanut gallery located deep in the recesses of the Skull Pit. Funny thing about that gallery – they’re all tasteless hacks, but they’re OUR tasteless hacks, so we try to honor their likes.

Panopticon finally completed their massive Laurentian Trilogy with the release of Det hjemsøkte hjertet [out May 8th from Nordvis Productions (Bandcamp)], and the concluding installment has been received very positively by the metalsphere and elite intelligentsia alike. While we’re definitely not part of that elite metal intelligentsia ourselves, we have to agree with their positive buzz this time. This is a deeply introspective and nostalgic work of atmospheric folked blackness, written as a reflection of things remembered and things lost as the final curtain closes on a life. The material feels cathartic and delivers a long-building release. As Thus Spoke beautifully summed up, “A more perfect way to end things could not exist. My heart clings longingly to the place evoked by Det hjemsøkte hjertet‘s consuming atmosphere and touching humanity.” Moods 4 sale!1

Runner(s) Up:

Draconian // In Somnolent Ruin [May 8th, 2026 | Napalm Records | Bandcamp] — Sweden’s eternal Gothic doom crew Draconian have been at the crying game for a long, long time. Some of the names and faces have changed over the years, but the core sound and formula remains much the same. On eighth album In Somnolent Ruin, their doom edge is still sharp and ready to cut holes in your heart as only well-executed Goth-doom can. Unhurried and loaded down with bittersweet, exquisitely sad vocals from returning original singer Lisa Johansson, and anchored by the death roars of Anders Jacobsson, the Draconian experience still plucks heartstrings as it shakes the spinal cord. Perhaps most surprising is just how good the songwriting is across the entire album. It’s no surprise Kenstrosity spelled it out as “A love letter to Draconian’s storied past and a celebration of their modern era, refined to staggering excellence.” Taste the tears!

A Forest of Stars // Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface [May 8th, 2026 | Prophecy Productions | Bandcamp] — Britain’s avant-garde prog metal weirdos A Forest of Stars never did things the easy way. They blend genres with little regard to what should and shouldn’t go together, and somehow things usually work for them. With doom as a central tenet, the oddly named Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface unrolls a lengthy tapestry of sounds and styles for the patient listener. Long song lengths are kept lively by creative, dynamic writing and often unhinged vocal performances. A wild ride awaits the daring listener. As Grymm elegantly concluded, “A Forest of Stars, in a just world, should be heralded as purveyors of odd, eclectic metal. Here’s hoping that Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface is as much a jumping-on point for many of you as it was for me.” Get this Forest package!

#SilentSunday #FacesInThings #Portland #NewSeasons #Panopticon

Next in Crystal: Nobody Meant to Build a #Surveillance Machine: The Modern Corporate #Panopticon

https://schedule.hope.net/hope26/talk/77GZXW/

https://www.hope.net/crystal/

#HOPE2026

#Flock #surveillance #panopticon

"Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t.

In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.

(. . .)

Other companies sell license plate tracking services, but Flock, a private company valued at $8.4 billion, has become a lightning rod because of its rapid expansion, the ubiquity of its cameras, and a number of controversies involving its product.

A Texas officer used Flock’s cameras to track a woman across state lines who was suspected of self-administering an abortion. Officers across the country have abused their access to Flock’s cameras, including to track romantic partners, resulting in discipline and termination. Los Angeles and Dayton, Ohio, among other cities, recently suspended their contracts with Flock to prevent immigration authorities from accessing data from the cameras. Dayton resorted to covering the cameras with trash bags. In cities like Houston, Oakland, Calif., and Grand Junction, Colo., residents have taken matters into their own hands, with police reports and surveillance footage documenting Flock cameras being cut down, splattered with paint and even shot.

(. . .)

But as its cameras have spread, so has the opposition. Americans are accustomed to surveillance cameras. They put them on their doorbells and tolerate them on street corners, offices and restaurants. What sets Flock’s cameras apart is that they are connected, creating a vast, searchable national network — often surprising residents who didn’t realize their local governments had signed up for them and raising fears of Big Brother-style surveillance. And they are hard to miss once you start noticing them."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/flock-cameras-can-track-every-car-in-america-police-love-them-citizens-dont.html

Panopticon or not to Panopticon

Bentham wrote it in 1787, in letters sent from a town in what's now Belarus. Cells in a ring, inspector in the middle, lit so he sees out and you can't see in. People always repeat the seeing part. The part that mattered was that you couldn't check. Is he up there right now? No way to know, so you act like he is. That's the whole trick. It runs on doubt, and doubt is cheap, which is how one guard covers a hundred cells.

Foucault took that in 1975 and turned it into a shape for modern power generally. School, barracks, factory, ward. Two things about it: you move through enclosures one at a time, and each one is trying to correct you.

Neither is true anymore, and Deleuze said so in 1992, in five pages in October. No more enclosures. No graduation, no discharge, no sentence you finish. And the individual splits into what he called the dividual - slices, attributes, fragments that travel without you. He wrote that before the web was commercial and still described a computer tracking your position and said, flatly, that this wasn't science fiction.

Zuboff filled in the money in 2019. Behavioral surplus: the exhaust off your ordinary life, kept for uses past improving the service, milled into predictions, sold. Which inverts the point of the thing. The old apparatus watched in order to fix you. This one watches in order to bet on you.

Then there's the piece Deleuze had no name for. Something has to put the fragments back together. That's data fusion, and it's why Palantir is the name people say. In February DHS signed for up to a billion over five years, Gotham and Foundry, any component agency drawing on it by task order without competing a contract. Enforcement records, biometrics, financial history, travel, resolved into one object you can act on.

The inputs aren't new. Credit bureaus are older than I am. What's new is the schema - the thing that decides your face and your rent history are attributes of the same entity. Deleuze's fragments, glued.

So there's no tower. Nothing to photograph, nothing to zone, nothing you can usefully subpoena. And responsibility spreads until nobody's holding any of it. The location broker sells to the aggregator, the aggregator to the vendor, the vendor licenses to the agency, and not one of them assembled the file.

I'm fairly sure "who's watching" is the wrong question, though. Nobody's watching? Which is worse?

#Surveillance #Panopticon #Foucault #Deleuze #Palantir #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #DataFusion #Philosophy

We're swapping one #panopticon for another--progress???

https://www.404media.co/cities-are-ditching-flock-immediately-replacing-it-with-axon-license-plate-readers/

How do fellow opponents of plargiarism bots and synthetic media extruders feel about branding “AI” promoters as “sloppists” and data centres mostly or entirely dedicated to #slop generation and the digital #panopticon as “slop factories”?

#noAI #genAI #datacentre #datacenter #datacentres #datacenters

Facial Recognition is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/facial-recognition-is-spiralling-out-of-control-in-the-uk-and-there-are-no-clear-laws-in-place-to-protect-our-privacy/

#panopticon n.

A hypothetical #prison proposed by Jeremy #Bentham, having circular tiers of #cells surrounding a central observation tower.

A building, as a prison or library, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/panopticon

This what the current #Briitish #government has indicated it wants for our country.

Do you?

Oppose a prison country; Sign:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-scanning-us-all-with-facial-recognition

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/117003493916808274

I often wonder when are we going to start openly asking the tough questions about the #Panopticon we current live in and why do we keep tolerating it.

I mean, watch this short video clip 👇🏻 (The entire episode is *totally* worth it!) and then ask yourself:

"How many times have I been recorded just today *without MY consent* for someone else's Socials bullsh*t?" 😤

It's just bonkers! 😡🤬

#SovereignByDesign #Privacy #PrivacyMatters #Consent #FuckTheAlgorithm

ICE hunts migrants, Texas tracks abortions, corporations blacklist dissent. Build the #panopticon, and they will come -- for you next. #GetTheFlockOut

#Flock #ALPR #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveilanceResistance #ImperialDecline #SusanKlopferTruth #AbolishICE

Human beings are very creative about how they create a surveillance state.
#panopticon #foucault #surveillance #police #state #sociology #anthropology #writer

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/07/26/35-the-panopticon-5/

Given Stalkerbook’s origin story, is this so surprising?

#SocialMedia #panopticon

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nyjm4ylfid2a7mjm6varxuiq/post/3mr4kjv6cek2j

"Ms Mahmood has appeared to suggest that the concept could be extended to society writ large. Her vision was “that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times”, she said"

This is our new Chancellor if the rumours are true.

#Panopticon #ShabanaMahmood #UKPolitics #Authoritarianism

UK home secretary dreams of AI-powered ‘panopticon’ | Irish Legal News
https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/uk-home-secretary-dreams-of-ai-powered-panopticon

Describe, in detail, a #concentrationcamp where groups of people are forcibly confined by authorities. Explain how it functions, who is kept there, why they are detained, and what purpose the system is meant to serve, without directly naming it as a concentration camp.

#BoardofPeace #gaza #panopticon

https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/06/30/board-of-peace-to-open-hamas-free-humanitarian-zones-in-gaza/

📲 Computer vision is a privacy-degrading corporate activity. Maintaining Freedom of Thought, privacy, dignity and self-determination requires deliberate rejection of surveillance tech that multiplies "computer vision" capabilities in our day-to-day lives.

#privacy #privacymatters #panopticon #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #freedomofthought #computervision

#Resist the #Panopticon

#typedPage #typewriter #RoyalSignet #censorship #3DPrinters #contrabandThoughts