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Post-global war of terror, ceramic armor rifle plates are widely available and cheaper than guns.

Non-penetrating hits on hard armor have a felt impact an order of magnitude less that the recoil of the firearm that fired the round.

12ga slugs don’t reliably penetrate soft armor, and don’t penetrate hard armor. The proper tactic for armored assailants is to aim for the groin.

Tracking phones only does that. And Flock’s mostly just a license plate reader, so far. Those sorts of things are great if you’re a cop stalking your ex-wife, but are nearly useless if you’re trying to track down a masked man that shot the CEO of an insurance company then fled on a bicycle.

That show finished airing 18 years ago…

Thinking about it, that show is a terrible reference. Modern phones didn’t exist in it, as they hadn’t been invented yet. The first iPhone was released while the last season of The Wire was filming, and the App Store didn’t come out until a few months after the final season had aired. It’s from an entirely different era.

I wrote it humorously, but I’m only about 5% joking. Sure looks to me like Minority Report’s about to come true, only the precogs will be called Claude, Grok, and GPT, and they’ll first be tasked with finding Mexicans rather than murderers.

Fully automated drab earth fascism is here, baby.

You don’t get it. The smart glasses don’t matter, man. The panopticon’s already built. What do you think the AI bubble is all about? Do you really believe $35 trillion’s in play over a bullshit generator that synthesizes pornography and tells you to kill yourself? All that compute is needed to integrate the data from the Flock cameras, the smart phones, the smart homes. It’s all connected, man, or it soon will be. Big Brother is here. You’ll never go unobserved, unrecorded, again.

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