The 21st Century Idioteque Manifesto

Porter Wang
3 min readAug 5, 2021

Do you accept our cookie policies?
We have updated our privacy statement and user account agreement, please read.
Allow for Facebook.com to use microphone on this device?
Allow Facebook.com to access your contact information stored on this device?
Data linked to you: Purchase history, Browsing history, Usage, Diagnostic Info, Height, Weight, Health, Steps, Lunch, Dinner, Heart BPM, Relationship Status, Criminal Record, Fetish in bedroom, Dog-person/Cat-person, Color of Hair, Color of Pupils, Color of Urine, Mental Stability.
Data Collected: None
Data Sold to 3rd Party: We do not sell, without your approval, your private data, to any 3rd party. For more on how we handle your data and protect your privacy, please go to our website.
Data Bought from other Companies: According to the FCA 4.1.2a, we are not obliged to provide this information. If you are a consumer located in California, the content of data purchased from other companies relating to your personal information is existing but we are not obliged to disclose further detail under the Californian Information and Privacy Law 17.a. If you are not a citizen of the United States, especially if you are from a country with annual GDP below the 60% percentile, why are you still here? We do not care about you.
“Hi, thank you for calling Universal-Columbia-Disney-Xfinity-Times-Warner-Bell-Sony and Co., a subsidiary of the Rothchild-Illuminati-Washington Group. This call may or may not be recorded. Press 1 for ticket purchasing, press 2 for ranting about a DMCA takedown, press 3 for a waste of 15 minutes but with limited opportunity to get a bundle of Disneyland fastpass WITH 3 month of free subscription to Netflix (auto-renewal required after 3 month period and customer is subject to tax; sign-up using a valid, US credit card is required), press 4 for your home internet subscription, press 5 for your home TV subscription, press 6 for your home TV+Internet bundle subscription, press 7 to listen to this message again, press 8 to hear our statement, press 9 to speak with a customer representative.”
“We are currently receiving a high volume of calls. The current wait time for customer representative is: 209 minutes. To continue stay on the line, please press 1. To use our faster automated service menu, please press 2.”
“To continue stay on the line, please press 2. To cancel, please press 1.”
“To continue stay on the line, please press 1. To cancel, please press 2.” “Thank you for using our automated service menu…”
Would you like to update the following apps?
Siri suggests you call “Mom”.
Siri suggests you open “Kegel Exercises”.
Notification: You have not drank enough water today. Click on this notification to log your cups right now!
Notification: Your iPhone 12 named “iPhone 12” detected sound, named “Farting”.
Low battery: Turn on low power mode.
Charging complete.
The ETA to “Work” is 18 minutes. The estimated work today is 10 hours without compensation.
Sometimes, I envy the seniors, who stay at nursing homes. I envy the prisoners. I envy the people who got their freedom taken away. My freedom is tied with a string, dangling in front of me which is worse, because I can never reach it with my face.

(By reading this article you acknolwedge that you have given approval to our privacy statement and account management and agrees to subject your personal data to any form of use by me)

--

--

Porter Wang

I do takes on all sorts of matters. Studied CS@Indiana University.