This NBC news story reads like a thriller: Why were the police asking about this man's whereabouts? "I was hit with a really deep fear," the man says. Alert readers have solved the mystery immediately: "exercise app." This hapless soul trusts Silicon Valley [SV] enough to have a phone and load it up with typical, privacy-invading apps and then wonders why he got caught in a police cyber-dragnet -- in this case, a flurry of inquiries to SV about anyone with an app who had been tracked in the vicinity of a burgled home. The article assumes readers have the ability to be shocked when most of them are similarly equipped and don't care as long as they aren't the ones in the crosshairs. Perhaps the writer wants to spur (a) less chumminess between SV and law enforcement (ha!), (b) legislation to stop this kind of cooperation (ha! ha!), or (c) consumer abandonment of smartphones, GPS, and apps (ha! ha! ha!). In the future expect articles like this to read: "When SV contacted Joseph Blow requesting information about his whereabouts on March 2, he was filled with a sudden rush of pleasure to be a citizen helping the authorities to catch bad guys."
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color code drawing by taehyung via sally
update: gratuitous greying-down of drawing courtesy Hexchat -- not sure what that's about -- on sally the colors are purer -- I kind of like that it's harder to read in this screenshot, though
weird alphabet letter replaces "L"
Art Director: I asked you all to come up with your own ideas this month, let's take a look. What is this?
Illustrator: Well, John Tenniel's birthday's coming up, so I put Alice in the place of the "L" in the company logo.
Art Director: He's not a company-approved "other" but we'll let that pass. I see that Alice is facing the Cheshire Cat and one arm is forming an "L" shape, that's good.
Illustrator: Yeah, isn't that cool--
Art Director: But what about her other arm? Is she making some sort of semaphore or turn signal? What does that do to the "L"? Look, let's shop out Alice's body and just leave the arms. You see? What letter is that? Not an "L," right?
Illustrator: I didn't think--
Art Director: Right, you didn't think. This level of mediocrity is exactly in line with our usual daily artwork. Approved.