They somehow still believe that the government acts in good faith and equally enforces all its laws despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Learn your history. Look up Cardinal Richelieu, who famously said:

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Everything can be taken out of context. In a surveillance society--even if the surveillance is nominally consensual--nobody is truly free.

So the landscape has changed over the years.

But I still think that iListen is a creepy surveillance feature, and it's my hope that Apple publicly backs away from it, in a way that's a warning to all the companies trying to sell products that do the same thing.

Like, "Oh, you want to make a wearable that's always listening? We're going to poison that well."

But that's a really charitable read. It's probably more like, "They're going to get into this market. For once, let's beat someone to the punch!"

So many people will try to settle an argument with their spouse or significant other by asking Siri. These are people who haven't learned yet that in a lifelong relationship, sometimes who's right and who's wrong is the least important aspect of a disagreement.

I mean, who knows? Maybe that'll be a good thing for people who shouldn't be in relationships.

I see so many ads where Meta is trying to rehabilitate the perception of the goggles' privacy features. No company wants to fight that battle. It's a waste of resources.