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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
Huh after the news break #CBCNews #CrossCountryCheckup is doing a call in on data brokers, #privacy, and #security. Let's see how they do @Em0nM4stodon #CBCRadio #CorporateSurveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #NowPlaying #CDNPoli
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
@Heliograph Well, yeah, phone numbers are great for tracking consume behavior #surveillancecapitalism
Enabling the surveillance state can be fun!
HT mstdn @Mumonkan
@ai6yr insane
I’ve been boycotting HD for years, Lowe’s will be added to that list now. Luckily I have a couple indie places I can go to, but most people will stick with Amazon, I think—which deserves its own boycott.
"A cache of leaked Microsoft documents and interviews with 11 sources from the company and Israeli military intelligence reveals how Azure has been used by military surveillance Unit 8200 to store an expansive archive of daily Palestinian communications."
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians:
Update: This piece is getting some interesting pushback from parents who think I'm being alarmist about AI toys over on my other social platforms.
On the other side of that, I'm hearing so many people taking the usual "AI BAAAAD" stance, some of those people thinking I agree with them simply because I took a hardliner stance in this post.
For clarification: I'm not anti-AI. I use these tools daily for my research and writing as well as accessibility aids to offset some of the disadvantages I face due to my blindness. I study AI from the computer scientist perspective and am studying to be an elementary teacher precisely because I see AI's educational potential. I'm not even entirely against the idea of AI companionship, if it's framed right.
What actually bothers me is the business model. When Moxie robots suddenly "died" last year because the company went under, kids had to grieve their artificial friend. Parents got a scripted letter to explain why their $799 companion stopped talking which provided little comfort to kids who experienced digital abandonment. Trust me, the videos I've seen of kids crying because their beloved friend unexpectedly died over night is truly heartbreaking.
That's no glitch, that's what happens when you outsource childhood relationships to venture capital that only cares about investment returns.
The real question isn't whether AI toys are inherently bad. It's whether we're okay with corporations experimenting on our kids' emotional development while claiming it's "age-appropriate play."
What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kaylielfox/p/the-toys-are-listening?r=2pewuq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#AIToys #ChildPrivacy #ChildDevelopment #DigitalRights #TechEthics #SurveillanceCapitalism #COPPA #DataPrivacy #ChildSafety #TechRegulation #DigitalLiteracy #ParentingInTheDigitalAge #EdTech #CorporateAccountability #TechCriticism #EthicalTech
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?
Amazon Ring se beneficia del autoritarismo tecnológico y la vigilancia masiva. Así es como su modelo de negocio pone en riesgo tu privacidad. #SurveillanceCapitalism https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance?language=es
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance | EFF
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
"(...) In 1982, eleven clandestine Radio Solidarity radio stations were shut down across Poland. The scientists who cooperated in the balloon project were risking serious jail time in addition to the loss of their career and livelihood.
Their act of defiance didn't bring down the state. It didn't do much more than give hope and brighten the day of a few hundred people. But it went straight back to that first idealistic promise of radio: that there existed magic, invisible rays that had the power to erase the distance between people, bypass all intermediaries, and penetrate even the thickest walls.
I tell this story to reassure you that just because everything is heavy and political right now, it doesn't mean we can't also fight these fights on our own terms, as nerds.
The Utopian qualities that made us love the web have not disappeared, even as it's become centralized and corporate, and we can find ways to defend and express them in our work.
The important thing is to recognize that there is a fight, and a need for individual acts of creative resilience.
We have to make sure that the powerful don't get comfortable using our tools. And we have to find ways to dismantle the surveillance economy before it becomes a political weapon turned against our democracy. (...)"
idlewords.com/talks/ancient_web.htm
#Radio #Web #Democracy #SurveillanceCapitalism
Just #SurveillanceCapitalism things. Absolute creep behaviour. And this is why I try hard not to actually use the Crimson card and just transfer money to my debit card ASAP instead. Because knowing #DoorDash, they'll track when you top off your tank and skew you towards shitty offers, knowing you might be more apt to take them at the top of the tank than the bottom. #gigwork #GigWorker #surveillance #capitalism
What is our dependence on Russian fossil oligarchs compared to our dependence on tech oligarchs from the Silicon Valley?
The real meaning of "USA Freedom Act" is the total freedom to control and to monetarize all data.
#democracy in danger
#surveillancecapitalism
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
"We are ONLY in it for the clicks" 
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
