https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/business/walgreens-freezer-screens/index.html
we have 8 year old african children mining rare earth minerals so we can build this shit
"Ugh, this news clip is depressing. Fuck Coke for making me think about other countries, I'm just gonna grab a Pepsi instead. Their door ads are funny."
“This is the future of retail and shopping,” Avakian said.
the main reason this tech can proliferate is that the people who decide to insert ads into every area of our visual field are rarely within striking distance of the common person. these assholes all have personal shoppers/assistants, live behind walls, and we don't know what they look like. honestly, the only thing cool about any AR tech would be its hijacking by culture jamming leftists to identify/add callouts to our enemies (secret police/undercover cops, informants, ultra high net worth individuals, etc).
also, there's a great dystopian visual gag here, where it's like post apocalyptic and some plucky hero scavenger stumbles across a display fridge running on solar power with bottled water in it that is running at like 16K so it looks real and shifts with perspective, only for him to open the door and like it's empty or has a bunch of skulls in it and it's a trap set by cannibals or baddies.
Bill Hicks continues to have the only moral and correct take on advertising and marketers.
For those who don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
people who decide to insert ads into every area of our visual field are rarely within striking distance of the common person. these assholes all have personal shoppers/assistants, live behind walls, and we don't know what they look like
Just gotta look up the board of directors and executives of the companies whose ads are on the screen and the adtech companies. All pretty public and openly available
Avakian said
Can't believe Bob would do this; the new synthesis is cancelled
There's not enough power to keep the inside cold and the ad screen on.
So the screen is on then?
Yes, and the water is warm.
"Sorry, you simply buying something doesn't create enough value for our shareholders."
What a fucking crock of shit. Absolutely no respect for anyone's time or dignity. Even being a good little consumer isn't enough anymore, you have to subject yourself to degradation and psychological manipulation even to participate in the basic market activities required of you to exist.
Every door like this is an assault on human decency and smashing them in with a hammer is a moral act.
I really want to emphasize that advertising is a potent form of exploiting human psychology. The advanced and pervasive form of it we see today, where it is tailored to individuals and consistently assaults them using a level of knowledge that many people's loved ones wouldn't even have access to is tantamount to abuse.
If a friend or a partner kept careful notes of your behavior, where you were looking and for how long, what you tended to buy and when based on your surrounding behavior and mood, and used it to manipulate you, we would rightfully call such a person a dangerous abuser. It is absolutely abhorrent to accept that from strangers who also already have massive structural power over us.
I really want to emphasize that advertising is a potent form of exploiting human psychology.
When some smug Redditor says "IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT BUY IT, SIMPLE" they're expressing an internalized defeated acceptance of that exploitation.
Not just what you buy, but what you search, what items you look at on other websites, and correlating data with demographic information that is either "lying around" or supplemented with targeted surveys to fill out the profile.
Also what all your friends like as well thanks to facebook/twitter/instagram/tiktok social network ad targeting
I searched ebay on my desktop for something the other day and my partner started seeing ads for it on her Instagram.
Yikes, is your ebay account linked to Facebook/Google or using Google chrome?
human attention is a finite resource. what does capitalism call those? externalities. what does it do with them? carves them up and destroys them for profit.
The only ad I actually remember seeing recently was a ad for the CRV and that was just because I was like"why is the CRV a station wagon now?"
I might just become much worse at steering my cart around these.
Unless they are locked until the ad finishes then there is a solution. The solution is to open every single door and leave them open. These freezer doors stay open for easy restocking by fully opening them until they click, just do that or jam something into the locking mechanism.
I genuinely believe most ads are ABLEIST because they're so distracting.
in North Korea, the grocery store shelves are filled with images of food to give the illusion of prosperity
In communist North Korea you are required to watch propaganda to access food.
Cooler Screens says 90% of consumers it has surveyed prefer its digital screens to traditional fridges
Do you prefer to look at digital screens?
YES -> SKIP AD
NO -> WATCH AD, FREE TESTICLE SHOCKWe discovered a sampling error after an audit. The 10% NO respondents was just one guy who spent 8000 dollars on iced tea that day.
Pretty soon all of these will display a Windows login screen or bash script with an error and the Walgreens minimum wage employees will have to write post-it notes about what's in the fridge
The manufacturer going out of business and not supporting them would be hilarious
that was a suprisingly good read comrade, thanks for linking it! its wild the shit i get to see because of this site
Neuralink 1,000% is going to be used to put ads in people's brains both awake and asleep.
I feel like Neuralink is going to be like Google Glass except it's going to die out way earlier in its life cycle
It'll be baffling if it even hits any market at all. They're a decade or more behind the actual research outfits working on brain interfaces and all their "research" has just been replicating the same experiments that were being done by actual researchers 15 years ago.
The most immediate use case for a crude neural interface that managed to not trigger rejection and healing/scarring mechanisms would be things like restoring sight (this has been done experimentally, effectively giving people a low res greyscale sort of sight from a camera - note I was seeing stuff about this a good 10-15 years ago so it may be better now, actually) or interfacing with advanced prosthetics for people with spinal cord injuries (another thing that's been managed experimentally, with exoskeleton braces for their legs that allow limited mobility - note I saw videos of this in action 5-8 years ago, so this may be further along than that now). That sort of thing is basically the limit of the technology at this point, which is honestly amazing but is still a far cry from the sci-fi dream of being able to integrate AR interfaces directly into one's senses or do full dive immersive VR shit.
Neuralink is far behind on even those fairly limited medical applications from what I've heard, and is basically just a grift by the engineers to pretend they're working while cashing paychecks from the dumbest man on earth.
(this has been done experimentally, effectively giving people a low res greyscale sort of sight from a camera - note I was seeing stuff about this a good 10-15 years ago so it may be better now, actually)
it's worse, the for-profit company spun up to privatize the gains of that public research went bankrupt and put their patients into a cyberpunk hell of having to crowdsource parts and repairs for their cybernetic eyes
Yeah that whole situation is fucked up.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
Yet in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, he heard troubling rumors about the company and called his Second Sight vision-rehab therapist. “She said, ‘Well, funny you should call. We all just got laid off,’ ” he remembers. “She said, ‘By the way, you’re not getting your upgrades.’ ”
WHAT THE FUCK
WE HAVE BIONIC EYES BUT NO ONE IS MAKING THEM ANYMORE?? THEY """"MOVED ON"""" TO OTHER TECHNOLOGY AND JUST GHOSTED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WALKING AROUND WITH UNMAINTAINED BIONIC IMPLANTS?? WE HAVE BIONIC FUCKING EYES AND MUSK WANTS TO FUND HIS MONKEY BRAIN TORTURE IMPLANTS INSTEAD???
The market works, folks!
I didn't know that. Thanks.
So Neuralink has not pit forward any concrete plans or expectations? I could respect the grift if they were not killing monkeys for it.
AFAIK they've been very vague about their plans in general, and what's come out about the experiments they were doing points to them being the sorts of things that I was seeing in documentaries 15 years ago and that they're just trying to look like they're doing something by replicating old experimental research.
I don't even know what their value proposition is
JUST LIKE THE CYBERPUNKERINOS 
That's it. That's the value proposition.
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Good on them. They were on the verge of bankruptcy with all the theft going on all the time. Now they have the money to put screens on coolers! Good to see them do better and crime on the decline.
if your grocery store can afford screens, you're not shoplifting enough
My local Kroger did this, and it's gonna turn me into the Unabomber, I stg
Can we get past the bullshit need to buy things from and sell shit to other people already? Make technology that actually fucking matters, that's actually interesting and assists in national development, and frees up the common person's schedule to engage in leisure, so we can all get the fuck on with our lives already?!It's boring as hell and annoying as fuck how commerce continues to chase after people and becoming an increasingly obstructive, invasive phenomenon. People don't want their lives to be plagued with ads! Why do you think daytime television is on its deathbed (apart from being an endless sea of reality TV)? If we need something, we'll fucking go looking for it.
Why do you think daytime television is on its deathbed (apart from being an endless sea of reality TV)?
I can't believe there are people who watch that shit.
Some of the most
people I have ever known. It's remarkable how disconnected they can be.
It’s wild how we made cyberpunk dystopias real in the cringest way possible
It’s wild how we made cyberpunk dystopias real in the cringest way possible
You're welcome!
If I ever find one of them I'm opening every one to check the inside and then making no effort to close it.
They have these at my local Walgreens; not only are they stupid AF and annoying, they actively make me to not want to shop there. Like, just a clear freezer door, I’ll scan my eyes over the products to see if there’s anything I want. With those, my brain just straight up nopes out of considering anything behind the doors, it gets dismissed as noise in the sea of advertising.
It's communism's fault, because this wouldnt be a thing if they hadn't stopped at berlin.
The power of Juche had not yet broken the seals on Marx's forbidden treatises on proletarian necromancy, and so a devastated and exhausted USSR was forced to relent for the time being.
Being the first socialist experiment made things a lot harder. The socialist world hadn't yet developed the Cuban moral vest, the Laotian cloak of invisibility and forgetting, The Vietnamese power of turning into killer trees, or the Chinese power to get stronger every time it collapses. All they had was tactical deployments of Stalin to devour the enemy's granaries in single fell swoops of the man-sized steel spoon from which he took his name.
On top of everything else, it is a direct, systemic, and compounding additional waste of electricity. Everything about this is enshittification.
