QR Codes Outside My Sons School

Swearwords & typos here. No editing. Flames from my fingers.

I’m mad as hell that I’ve got another fucking thing to worry about. Another thing that didn’t even cross my fucking my mind. Another thing that I literally have to find the time to think strategically about, how to handle, how to explain, how to avoid in the future.

I’m exhausted by our society.

All day long every single day I am thinking about things that are attempting to manipulate my children. And yes, it’s usually related to tech, media, digital realms and the people benefiting off them or the people using the tools as a means to exploit them.

I think about every possibliuty. Probably to a fault. Will that smart doorbell learn when we are home or not? In 5 years how could that be used to harm or take advantage of my kids? Is that app connected to google’s data collection? If an AI was used to troll his friend feeds and make an image of a kid that looked like his friend would he know that it wasn’t a friend but a bot?

How the fuck do I think of every illicit way these things can be used and counter it, explain it, teach it while it’s being forced down his throat through normalcy. It’s used in school, used on playdates, “all my friends have it”, “well the sign ups for sports are online”, etc etc etc. as if there aren’t tits for sale alongside guns and horrific hateful rhetoric on both that make it eventually feel normal to pay for either.

Who the FUCK would think that a QR code (which I already fucking detest and if you hand me one at a bar or restaurant post-pandemic I am fucking leaving) would be the next thing to make me want to move my family to a god damned island with no Internet?

My 11 year old came home last week and said “something weird happened when I was walking into school mom”.