"They took the virtual dust of where you wandered online. They created your digital poppet and sold duplicates of your virtual dust with others. They traded what they gathered about you to each other. At first to influence you, they wanted to sell you their wares in their markets — but the Fae in this realm also gave you poisonous fruit to eat. The more you ate of the fruit, the more you gave them."

Digital Poppets - How the Modern Fae Hold Power Over You
#DigitalPoppets
https://www.onepict.com/digitalpoppet.html

@jim oh great more biometric data for Palantir to add to the #DigitalPoppets they create of you.

Palantir that company that also has NHS contracts what could possibly go wrong 🙄

https://www.onepict.com/digitalpoppet.html

Imagine as a mixed digital and physical art project: poppets of public figures, but with a small medallion with storage/embroidered QR code that covered what's been leaked about them in hacks, or released files in the public interest.

Imagine mocking up what could still be available to law enforcement about public figures under chat control.

Encourage others to make their own poppets of those figures and share that data.

Art is political.

#DigitalPoppets

"They took the virtual dust of where you wandered online. They created your digital poppet and sold duplicates of your virtual dust with others. They traded what they gathered about you to each other. At first to influence you, they wanted to sell you their wares in their markets — but the Fae in this realm also gave you poisonous fruit to eat. The more you ate of the fruit, the more you gave them."

Digital Poppets - How the Modern Fae Hold Power Over You
#DigitalPoppets
https://www.onepict.com/digitalpoppet.html

@wendyg exactly, there's a reason I wrote this for fluconf this week.

We're valuable both as a userbase to manipulate as well as a huge amount of data for #SurveillanceCapitalism to use and abuse

https://www.onepict.com/digitalpoppet.html

#DigitalPoppets

We do need to ask these questions if we want to know why Mom and Pop stores just set up on Facebook or other hard to move from silos.

Where they pay for access to ad networks for the potential of impressions on the web via #DigitalPoppets

Why the ecosystem of web development firms point small business to integrate with #SurveillanceCapitalism to help small businesses have a Storefront on the web.

It's more than ease of set up. The web isn't really there to serve our communities.

I'm on the program for #fluconf2026

https://2026.fluconf.online/contributions/digital-poppets-how-the-modern-fae-hold-power-over-you/

@fluconf

#DigitalPoppets #privacy

I'm on the program for #fluconf2026

https://2026.fluconf.online/contributions/digital-poppets-how-the-modern-fae-hold-power-over-you/

@fluconf

#DigitalPoppets #privacy