Feel free to wax lyrical about McShep to me.

Why does your face have the look that Ravola’s had when they caught him, / The muff-diver, getting his beard all wet in Rhodope’s you-know?

For those who seek surveillance revenues, dark data represent lucrative and necessary territories in the dynamic universal jigsaw constituted by surveillance capitalism's urge toward scale, scope, and action. Thus, the technology commmunity casts dark data as the intolerable “unknown unknown” that threatens the financial promise of the “internet of things.”

Those qualities make bufferedness more than a situation where provincial vaguenss and limited monitoring provide a window of opportunity for locals to run with local ideas.