All credit to the plain text nerds of yesteryear. Still, I'm happy to have inspired you by sharing the idea.
When you were talking about the "zen" software I thought you made it up. Boy was I surprised when I read the article you linked about it. That is indeed very dystopian. Thanks for sharing.
I'm on the side of the man enjoying a cocktail while swimming in a bin full of water.
binman is too aggressive but the filming man is invading his right to a swim in the bin
if I was minding my own business being weird in my garden I would also get extremely aggressive towards a guy in a car who pulled up and started filming me
Library now contains Cory Doctrow's personal notes on this Danny O'Brien presentation from NotCon 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhbqrxmUlQg
Also, "what's that text message say" would be useful, or "what's that notification"