Know Thyself through assumed acceptance
I was watching one of the thousands of crime dramas that plague our eyeballs and two individuals interviewed, one was a victim and one was a friend of the accused, there was something odd about their footage. Like it was blurred, or feathered at the edges, like the people walked the line of human and animation. Then I noticed in small font in the upper corner the word ‘Digitally Anonymised’.
My first thought was, great, another term that we are innately supposed to comprehend and immediately accept as a necessary evolution in life. A term that is thrown at us with no explanation, a phrase we must wrap our heads around real time, whilst understandably being more interested in whether one is now leaning more guilty than not. It is like the side effects listed in pharmaceutical ads, I want to think about, what I think about possible ailments that could be so bad that permanent blindness and/or anal leakage is a chance one would take.
But you give me no time to think about it. I will be bombarded with 8 more monochromatic choreographed outings on Main St. USA in the next 10 minutes that I will forget that I do not comprehend all that is put in front of me.
Hey world I do not know what a G is. I understand that my phone’s network should have as many as possible, but at the core, I do not understand what it is.
So ‘Digitally Anonymised‘ is a thing in our lives now? I get it for protecting identities, but like all neat-o technologies, won’t this be used as a filter for dating apps? Isn’t this a dangerous route to take, can’t images be altered so it ‘isn’t’ who it is? How does one know that this tech was utilized if that 10pt CG wasn’t there with a phrase that is yet to exist in the Dictionary, or Wikipedia? Are there regulations? Will blurrier versions of newscasters, soap stars, and President’s start appearing before our eyes in the near future and no one stops to ask what we think about it?
I don’t know, I found it creepy.
Last Updated on 03/11/2026 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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