Andre607

This is incorrect. Lysiak's hometown is Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. There is no Selinsgrove, Arizona. This incident with the officer took place in Patagonia, Arizona.

Comment · 7 years ago

Please re-read my first comment, as I feel like we are talking past each other. You are talking about generalized surveillance; I presented a specific example of how this particular technology can be used in my first post. The obvious truism that law enforcement agencies have access to a wide array of traveler information has no bearing on the fact that, as I said in my first comment, a bored passenger or flight attendant could use the system to peep on passengers depending on what 'never been activated' means.

Comment · 7 years ago

I interpreted your reply to be that this camera is intended for entertainment, not surveillance purposes. My response was to point out that entertainment-purposed equipment can and has been repurposed to be surveillance equipment, effectively becoming multipurpose. And that it's therefore not implausible that these cameras could be used for impromptu surveillance such as the example I outlined in my first reply.

Comment · 7 years ago

> these aren’t a surveillance tool if the airlines wanted to have security cameras they would’ve installed them already

The fact that it may be designed as an entertainment system and not as a surveillance system has no bearing on the fact that the former may readily be used for the latter. See Weeping Angel [1] for an example of one such manifested use-case.

[1] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_12353643.html

Comment · 7 years ago

> American Airlines spokesperson Ross Feinstein confirmed to BuzzFeed News that cameras are present on some of the airlines’ in-flight entertainment systems, but said “they have never been activated, and American is not considering using them.” Feinstein added, “Cameras are a standard feature on many in-flight entertainment systems used by multiple airlines. Manufacturers of those systems have included cameras for possible future uses, such as hand gestures to control in-flight entertainment.”

And what does 'never been activated' mean? Does it mean they are default off, but a flight attendant (or anyone who accesses the control panel while the flight attendant is otherwise occupied) can turn on a camera to see what someone sitting at a specific seat is doing?

Comment · 7 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to respond; this is insightful and informative.

Comment · 7 years ago

I know we have lots of FB employees at HN.

I would be genuinely curious to hear, via throwaway accounts if need be, about how FB staff rationalise things like this happening.

Do you shrug it off as not a big deal in the long run? As FB still doing a net amount of good versus what you perceive as isolated incidents like this? I'm just in good faith trying to figure out how people willingly work and continue to work for outfits that repeatedly engage in behaviour such as this. I know there are lots of speculative reasons we can put forward, but I think we have a great opportunity here in our community to have first-hand input.

Comment · 7 years ago

David Orr has been flinging the same mud at Bukowski and Bukowski's posthumous publications for years now.

He's been using the same exact jabs and barbs for more than a dozen years.

An example, in this 2019 review he writes:

> At this point, new books by Bukowski tend to be pretty old. Bukowski’s publisher has issued something like 20 volumes from “Buk” since the writer’s death in 1994, frequently with large chunks of them scavenged from previously published writing. The many recycled poems, letters and prose fragments in “On Drinking” follow previous collections including “On Cats” and “On Love” and “On Writing,” with “On Cats Who Love Drinking and Writing” presumably waiting in the wings.

In 2006, for a humor issue of _Poetry_ [1], he wrote a review titled:

> Reviewed Work: Charles Bukowski: Drafts, Scribbles, Doodles, Signed Leases, Cancelled Checks, Drawings on Cocktail Napkins, Things He Wrote on a Nerf Football with a Green Marker, Things He Wrote on a Waitress in Tulsa with the Same Green Marker, Things He Wrote (Possibly in Blood) on an Issue of Marie Claire, Things He Wrote (Possibly in Vomit) on a Copy of X-Men vs. the Fantastic Four No. 3, and Sestinas by Charles Bukowski

in which he goes on to write:

> If you've seen the 9,473 Charles Bukowski collections currently for sale in Barnes & Noble, you probably wondered, along with the rest of the poetry world, when we'd finally be given a full picture of this major artist by his choosy publisher. Sadly, this isn't it. Missing, for example, are five poems known to have been written by "Buk" on scraps of toilet paper during a binge in Sante Fe

Repeating the same lame 'here's a long title to show my displeasure at the amount of posthumous material that is being published because for some reason it is personally irritating to me just how prolific Bukowski actually was' joke for more than a dozen years is pretty hackneyed.

It almost seems like he's just rewriting the 2006 review here and adding some concern trolling about drunk driving.

[1] sci-hub.tw/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20607525

Comment · 7 years ago

Reminds me of how when due to the Allied embargo Coca-Cola couldn't be made in Nazi-era Germany, so Coca-Cola GmbH developed Fanta: https://www.thelocal.de/20170523/fanta-how-the-nazi-era-drin...

Comment · 7 years ago

Does anyone else find these kinds of Twitter threads incredibly hard to follow?

It's very difficult to contextualize and adapt to reading these short incremental bursts of text or 'Twitter threads'. It always feels like important context and exposition is missing. I seem to understand the gist, that Youtube seems to have promoted flat earth videos disproportionately, but the 'whistleblower' aspect is not immediately apparent.

Comment · 7 years ago

Surprised the article (or the comments here), don't mention earlier efforts to tear down court paywalls, such as Aaron Swartz's scraping of 2.7 million documents from PACER: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/the-inside-story... .