Stalker

[P3nT4gR4m]

"Got one of those stalker virus yesterday, creepy as fuck."

"Aye, what happened?"

"Walking down Main Street, talking to Melissa, getting the trip organised. She's checking flights and hotels and cars and shit. We'd just got to the cross and I get that creepy - being watched - feeling and I turn around and there's this shady looking fucker standing outside RS and he's looking right at me. "

"So what'd you do?"

"Well nothing at first. Just figured I was being paranoid. It's just after twelve, street was mobbed."

"So then what?"

"So, we walk on a couple of hundred yards, past the Eyeshop and I turn around again, kinda humouring myself, yanno?"

"Aye."

"There he is, half a block back and staring at me, this fucked up grin on his face."

"Fuck no!"

"My thoughts exactly. I told Mel to check him out. You'll never guess what she tells me?"

"Wha?"

"Nobody there."

"Eh?"

"She can't see him."

"She glitched?"

"That's what I'm thinking. So I turn back to the guy who's fucking marching toward us at this point, and he's got one hand inside his coat, you know like..."

"...he's going for a weapon."

"Aye, and I'm still thinking - paranoid but he's pretty fucking close now."

"How close."

"Like a couple of car lengths."

"Fuck me."

"So I turn to ask Mel if she can see him now."

"And?"

"And, fuck all. She's gone."

"Gone."

"Aye, no sign."

"Shit."

"So I shout her a couple of times but nothing. I'm standing at the entrance to the star and it's mobbed. Saturday afternoon, right?"

"Right."

"And I'm thinking, I'll be safe in there, maybe lose the cunt."

"Sound."

"So I head in and I'm straight up to the bar for a pint and I'm standing there and Mel appears, right next to me and I'm like, fuck happened to you?"

"So what's she say?"

"She leans in, right in my face, like inches away and then her face changes into the creepy cunt and he takes a step back, in a split second I can see a knife in his hand and then he stabs me right in the gut."

"Fuck, no."

"Seriously. There was blood pishing out and everything."

"Aw, that's heavy man."

"That's no the worst part."

"What's that, like?"

"The worst part is I've just made a complete twat of myself, in the middle of the Star on a saturday avo, in front of half the fucking town."

"Whu?"

"Like I jumped back like fuck, cracked my back on the bar. I think I screamed like a wee lassie. Got some mental looks off the punters."

"Aw you did not?"

"Seriously, man, it was realistic as fuck, my heart was pure pounding. Dropped my pint and everything."

"So how'd you fix it?"

"I never."

"Eh?"

"Fucker keeps doing it."

"Naw?"

"What I told you - it's a virus."

"Aye I know but you deleted it, right?"

"Took the virus-scanner out, mate. Most of the time, it's just normal Melissa but, every now and again she turns into the creepy dude and stabs me and then for the next half hour I'm surrounded wi porn spam. Getting boners in the most inappropriate places. Can't even turn my eyes off."

"Fuck off."

"Seriously. Rooted."

"So what now?"

"Eyeshop."

"What time?"

"Half an hour, was on my way there when I saw you."

"Good luck. Hey, what's that fucker over there think he's staring at?"

"Who?"

"Dude in the trenchcoat, wi the hat."

"Black hat?"

"Aye."

"Better come down wi me. Think you might have caught it too."

[Eater of Clowns]

 

It's creepy, and then there's the porn spam, and it is there that this becomes a p3nt piece.

[P3nT4gR4m]

 

[Freeky]

This is so silly.  I love it.  

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Silly?  This is next month.

[Freeky]

I wasn't saying it couldn't happen, I just found it silly. 

[The Wizard Joseph]

AR viruses? 

[Junkenstein]

I wasn't saying it couldn't happen, I just found it silly. 

It's all fun and games until you're surrounded by giant dicks dancing to gangnam style that only you can see and hear.

Between this and that hyper-reality video, the future looks more like a commercially personalised form of schizophrenia. Those running a form of adblock are part of the commercial apartheid where you are not rewarded for life activities. It's not a choice for some. When cash is tight riding the bus 5 times and you get a free trip really matters. Minimum small purchases must be completed regularly to maintain your account rewards. Your contribution to police services now factors in any relevant no-claims discounts. Same for Fire and health. Any and all activities shove rewards points for things that may be similar or even not. Your overall citizenship ranking will be widely displayed and used as a guide for which goods and services your are allowed to use. Contact with those with a lower score will negatively impact yours so avoidance of delinquents will be vital to survive.



Half of that I just lifted straight from a system that's operating in China now.

[P3nT4gR4m]

LOL - Good Citizen? Chinese are ahead of the curve. US/UK are rank amateurs in comparison. I'm embarrassed for them. 

[Junkenstein]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Credit

Sesame Credit is a social credit scoring system being constructed by Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate of the Chinese Alibaba Group. It uses data from Alibaba's services to compile its score. The highly controversial score is used to rank citizen in China based on a variety of factors. This is a system that is soon to be mandatory in China beginning in the year 2020. [1][2]

Baihe.com, a Chinese matchmaking company, uses Sesame Credit data as part of its service.[2]

Sesame Credit has denied rumors that their rating includes data gathered from social media activity.

That's the very short version, it's considerably more fucked up than that implies. This is essentially using social peer pressure to try and control a population. The compliant ostracise the dissidents and you get a handy up to the second accurate list of who are/are not enemies of the state.

Expand the implications to families and groups of people and you've got something really fucking special. Dad going out drinking on a thursday means Mum is banned for the hairdresser for a week. A daughter skips school one afternoon so the Son is assigned detention to be completed before leaving. You can go anywhere with this and use it to condition the living fuck out of people.

At least England is dull enough that it will just use it to issue fines to fucking everyone.

[Freeky]

I wasn't saying it couldn't happen, I just found it silly. 

It's all fun and games until you're surrounded by giant dicks dancing to gangnam style that only you can see and hear.

And then it's hilarious.

[Eater of Clowns]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Credit

Sesame Credit is a social credit scoring system being constructed by Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate of the Chinese Alibaba Group. It uses data from Alibaba's services to compile its score. The highly controversial score is used to rank citizen in China based on a variety of factors. This is a system that is soon to be mandatory in China beginning in the year 2020. [1][2]

Baihe.com, a Chinese matchmaking company, uses Sesame Credit data as part of its service.[2]

Sesame Credit has denied rumors that their rating includes data gathered from social media activity.

That's the very short version, it's considerably more fucked up than that implies. This is essentially using social peer pressure to try and control a population. The compliant ostracise the dissidents and you get a handy up to the second accurate list of who are/are not enemies of the state.

Expand the implications to families and groups of people and you've got something really fucking special. Dad going out drinking on a thursday means Mum is banned for the hairdresser for a week. A daughter skips school one afternoon so the Son is assigned detention to be completed before leaving. You can go anywhere with this and use it to condition the living fuck out of people.

At least England is dull enough that it will just use it to issue fines to fucking everyone.

Holy shit.

[Junkenstein]

Good, isn't it?

[Brother Mythos]

"Got one of those stalker virus yesterday, creepy as fuck."

So that's what happens when you get a Stalker Virus. I didn't realize it could be that bad. Thanks for the warning.