Why does every algorithmic media feed seem like garbage? Because it IS garbage. It's not tailored to your preferences as the owners claim. It's tailored to theirs. Namely, profit and what leads to profit, keeping you addicted with outrage and the occasional dopamine hit. #SurveillanceCapitalism#Advertising#Tech#Dystopia
Why does every algorithmic media feed seem like garbage? Because it IS garbage. It's not tailored to your preferences as the owners claim. It's tailored to theirs. Namely, profit and what leads to profit, keeping you addicted with outrage and the occasional dopamine hit. #SurveillanceCapitalism#Advertising#Tech#Dystopia
I published a new piece:
How the Powerful Use Doubt to Avoid Accountability
Uncertainty isn’t always organic. It’s often engineered.
From Big Tobacco, Surveillance Capitalism to Genocide in Gaza, the tactic is the same: Sow fear, doubt & confusion to protect power and profit.
Read more 👇
🔗 https://mangotek.eu/posts/the-playbook-of-doubt/
🎧 Inspired after listening to HumaneTech_'s podcast with Naomi Oreskes 👇
https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/weaponizing-uncertainty-how-tech-is-recycling-big-tobaccos-playbook
#Disinformation#SurveillanceCapitalism#Palestine#StopGenocide
do you know who holds the root encryption key to your android device? when i asked TMobile, they told me to contact Samsung. when i contacted Samsung, they said to call TMobile. this is for the unrootable Samsung A21 they sold in US/CA with the Snapdragon chips.
imagine buying a laptop and Microsoft & Dell conspiring to block your root access & embed any software they want.
why is it then ok to do so with microcomputers used as phones?
no root is the root of #surveillanceCapitalism
do you know who holds the root encryption key to your android device? when i asked TMobile, they told me to contact Samsung. when i contacted Samsung, they said to call TMobile. this is for the unrootable Samsung A21 they sold in US/CA with the Snapdragon chips.
imagine buying a laptop and Microsoft & Dell conspiring to block your root access & embed any software they want.
why is it then ok to do so with microcomputers used as phones?
no root is the root of #surveillanceCapitalism
I published a new piece:
How the Powerful Use Doubt to Avoid Accountability
Uncertainty isn’t always organic. It’s often engineered.
From Big Tobacco, Surveillance Capitalism to Genocide in Gaza, the tactic is the same: Sow fear, doubt & confusion to protect power and profit.
Read more 👇
🔗 https://mangotek.eu/posts/the-playbook-of-doubt/
🎧 Inspired after listening to HumaneTech_'s podcast with Naomi Oreskes 👇
https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/weaponizing-uncertainty-how-tech-is-recycling-big-tobaccos-playbook
#Disinformation#SurveillanceCapitalism#Palestine#StopGenocide
Is one big flaw in how we generally think about #SocialWeb and #Fediverse development in how we embrace this vibrant feeling and energy that existed at the time the early web was emerging? At that time time the expectation was that the #Web would liberate us.
A decade later we have #BigTech, the Corporate Web and #SurveillanceCapitalism, while #Technofeudalism and #Dystopia are knocking on the door.
Nowadays when we excitedly publish our innovations as we did then, is that still responsible?
At this point I just hope some greyhat hacker comes into possession of a day-zero Linux kernel RCE exploit and nukes all #Palantir servers and anything Palantir itself communicates with (even if that is stuff like AWS). Anything that works with Palantir is tainted and has to be taken out.
Then perhaps take out as many data brokers as possible. One can only dream… 😶🌫️
#Surveillance#SurveillanceCapitalism#Dystopia
At this point I just hope some greyhat hacker comes into possession of a day-zero Linux kernel RCE exploit and nukes all #Palantir servers and anything Palantir itself communicates with (even if that is stuff like AWS). Anything that works with Palantir is tainted and has to be taken out.
Then perhaps take out as many data brokers as possible. One can only dream… 😶🌫️
#Surveillance#SurveillanceCapitalism#Dystopia
I'm so glad somebody is finally writing about this.
#HikVision Thousands of controversial Chinese surveillance cameras installed in public places across Ireland
https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-hikvision-surveillance-6755381-Jul2025/
via @TheJournal
#Surveillance#SurveillanceCapitalism#DataProtection#GDPR#MastoDaoine
I'm so glad somebody is finally writing about this.
#HikVision Thousands of controversial Chinese surveillance cameras installed in public places across Ireland
https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-hikvision-surveillance-6755381-Jul2025/
via @TheJournal
#Surveillance#SurveillanceCapitalism#DataProtection#GDPR#MastoDaoine
Anyone wearing one of these things should be required to display a warning sign.
“Bee makes a $49.99 Fitbit-like device that listens in on your conversations while using AI to transcribe everything that you and the people around you say, allowing it to generate personalized summaries of your days, reminders, and suggestions from within the Bee app.”
#AI#Privacy#SurveillanceCapitalism
https://www.theverge.com/news/711621/amazon-bee-ai-wearable-acquisition
"We are ONLY in it for the clicks" 🤑
#Google#Youtube#BigTech#Desinformation#Propaganda#SurveillanceCapitalism
Anyone wearing one of these things should be required to display a warning sign.
“Bee makes a $49.99 Fitbit-like device that listens in on your conversations while using AI to transcribe everything that you and the people around you say, allowing it to generate personalized summaries of your days, reminders, and suggestions from within the Bee app.”
#AI#Privacy#SurveillanceCapitalism
https://www.theverge.com/news/711621/amazon-bee-ai-wearable-acquisition
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
Spotify is publishing new, AI-generated songs on the official pages of artists who died years ago without the permission of their estates or record labels.
According to his official Spotify page, Blaze Foley, a country music singer-songwriter who was murdered in 1989, released a new song called “Together” last week. The song, which features a male country singer, piano, and an electric guitar, vaguely sounds like a new, slow country song. The Spotify page for the song also features an image of an AI-generated image of a man who looks nothing like Foley singing into a microphone.
Craig McDonald, the owner of Lost Art Records, the label that distributes all of Foley’s music and manages his Spotify page, told me that any Foley fan would instantly realize “Together” is not one of his songs.
“I can clearly tell you that this song is not Blaze, not anywhere near Blaze’s style, at all,” he told me on a call. “It’s kind of an AI schlock bot, if you will. It has nothing to do with the Blaze you know, that whole posting has the authenticity of an algorithm.”
A life without Spotify is possible!
Ads and surveillance business models continue to poison the web. Kagi products will always remain free from ads and trackers.
#Kagi#Search#Privacy#NoAds#Surveillance #surveillancecapitalism
Ads and surveillance business models continue to poison the web. Kagi products will always remain free from ads and trackers.
#Kagi#Search#Privacy#NoAds#Surveillance #surveillancecapitalism
The report leaves no doubt: the negative impact of the datacenters is not an (energy) efficiency issue, is about effectiveness: most of the resources are used for private data capture and processing for advertisement and control.
The environmental cost (in lives) is about #SurveillanceCapitalism: again, the appropriation and privatization of the #Commons (everyone), robbed and concentrated in a few hands.
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