- When right-wing conspiracy theorists raise alarm bells about tech and surveillance, e.g, “vaccine passports”, their specifics may be wrong, but they’re touching on something very real. - Even if you aren’t being spied on by the government to track your vaccine status, you *are* at the mercy of omnipresent technology with minimal transparency or regulation. - “surveillance capitalism” - [[technical surveillance allows people to travel through time and space]] - So: brushing people’s concerns off – saying, “Wait until they hear about cell phones,” is dismissing something we *all feel and are aware of*. - [[they always believe that they are engaging in critical thinking]] - Although we are generally concerned about the same things – even if we think each side has the problem warped – [[{3.4b1} once an issue is picked up in mirror world, it becomes untouchable]]. We’re not communicating across portals.