Smart Rings, Dumb Freedom
When your vascular insights are sharper than your voting rights.
Panel 1 (close-up): A gleaming RingConn Gen 3 box on a minimalist kitchen counter. Marketing copy on the box: “KNOW YOURSELF.” Panel 2: Zoom out. A sleepy young professional in athleisure slides the RingConn onto their finger. As it clicks into place, transparent AR-style overlays pop up around their hand: heart rate, vascular flow, “STRESS: OPTIMIZED FOR PRODUCTIVITY,” “SLEEP: ADEQUATE FOR 10-HOUR WORKDAY.” Panel 3: Wider view of the open-plan apartment. Every object has a corporate logo and a data overlay: the fridge shows “CALORIES REPORTED,” the couch shows “SEDENTARY RISK SOLD TO INSURER,” the TV flashes “RINGCONN GEN 3 LAUNCH STREAM.” On the wall, a dusty, crooked paper flyer for a local town-hall meeting is pinned up with a tiny note: “CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (UNMEASURED).” Panel 4 (final, split): Left side: Close-up of the RingConn app on their phone, proudly announcing: “VASCULAR AGE: 22 — EXCELLENT! SHARE WITH PARTNERS?” with a big glowing “YES” button and an almost invisible tiny “no.” Right side: A second notification buried under it from the city government app: “Your voting precinct has moved again. Polling location: ‘TBD.’” It’s grayed out with a dismiss button labeled “LATER.” The character taps “YES” on the data share, ignoring the polling alert. Tiny footer text along the bottom edge of the whole cartoon: “World’s Leading Provider of Cutting-Edge Smart Ring Solutions. Side effects may include chronic underrepresentation.”
Source headline
RingConn Gen 3 Smart Ring Opens for Pre-Order: Bringing Vascular Insights to Effortless Everyday Wear
Around the Shallot
Stay in the same broken universe.
Forecasts, satire, cartoons, and quizzes should feel like one publication, not disconnected tabs.
Tech
EU Moves To Ban Ordinary People From Knowing What Hedge Funds Already Bet On
Prediction markets face crackdown just as Wall Street, bookies, and AI models quietly adopt them as a premium feature.
May 27
Forecast
U.S. and Iran Won’t Hit Gulf Energy or Nuclear Sites Soon
Washington and Tehran are trading blows in public while haggling in private. The loud part is moving toward Iran’s shores and shipping lanes. The quiet part is every regional capital begging them not to touch the real money: Gulf energy exports and Iran’s nuclear sites.
May 27
Comments
Be the first to comment.
