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Keep Me There.

“Through a partnership with Microsoft, Kroger plans to place cameras at its digital displays, which will use facial recognition tools to determine the gender and age of a customer captured on camera and present them with personalized offers and advertisements on the EDGE Shelf,” reads the letter. “EDGE will allow Kroger to use customer data to build personalized profiles of each customer, and then use those profiles ‘to determine how much price hiking each of us can tolerate,’ quickly updating and displaying the customer’s maximum willingness to pay on the digital price tag.” via via @adamjohnsonchi

Red train.

cosmic
defunctive reds
dissolve into savor
of what we were when we were the
bright ones

"While a bureaucratic 'fix' to the problem would be simple enough-- ~$250 million per year would be more than enough to expand a Housing First program to cover nearly every person experiencing homelessness in the city-- the political will is not there."