Anyone know who set up this site and what their intentions were?
It asks for an InstaGrab login and a bunch of personal information, and there's no indication of who runs the site, or what happens to the data collected. Just looks like DataFarming of naive youngsters to me.
Just checked out Qobuz. It offers me albums to buy. I try to listen to them, but it wants me to login. Nope. Moving on to one of the many places where I can listen without doing that.
Asking for a login before allowing preview of an album is like asking people for ID before they can access listening posts in a record store. Choosing stick over carrot implies the login is to improve *their* experience, not mine, by subjecting me to more DataFarming.
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A reminder;
For as long as the majority of kiwis do our social networking and access media via DataFarming platforms, owned and controlled by US technofascists, our democracy will be distorted by the effects of those platforms. So any kiwi who cares about the independence of our country, and our freedom to be self-governing - as a whole, as communities and as citizens - needs to start caring about digital sovereignty.
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"But I discovered that Github is now pushing it even more in that direction: a feed full of random projects and people I don’t care about, notifications to get me to 'discover' new projects and 'follow' new persons. They don’t even try to pretend to be a professional platform anymore. It’s a pure attention-grabbing personal data extorting social networks."
@ploum, 2023
Surveillance infrastructure is expanding, from “smart cities” and border systems to digital IDs and predictive policing, often under the banner of safety or sustainability.
But who profits when our movements, identities, and interactions become commodities?
Our latest article explores the dangerous convergence of state power, corporate profit, and technological control, and how the Tri-Axis Model can help us reclaim ethics, society, and environment from the digital cage.
#EcoSocialAssembly #TriAxisModel #SurveillanceState #DigitalFreedom #DataFarming
Surveillance infrastructure is expanding, from “smart cities” and border systems to digital IDs and predictive policing, often under the banner of safety or sustainability.
But who profits when our movements, identities, and interactions become commodities?
How can the Tri-Axis Model can help us reclaim ethics, society, and environment from the digital cage.
#EcoSocialAssembly #TriAxisModel #SurveillanceState #DigitalFreedom #DataFarming
"If you disagree with any of the policies, you may terminate your agreement with us at any time by discontinuing use of our services and deleting your Discord account."
Email about changes to Discord's ToS, 2025
In plain terms, you can like it or leave. But at the same time, they'll do anything they can to make it hard to leave. This is what dictatorship looks like.
"You could imagine somebody creating one of these viral-type apps, or social media platforms, or confession platforms, solely just to gather data."
#TaylorLorenz, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-dTz5FsXA
Easily. I mean, this is the standard business justification for creating an online service, and has been well over a decade.
Remember Cambridge Analytica weren't doing anything fringe. That was Business-As-Usual for FarceBook data use.
@dmian
> I’ve finished migrating my active #GitHub repos to Codeberg
Every project that leaves GritHub for good is another measurable dent in the network effects of an enshittified, proprietary platform. Now owned by one of the oldest #DataFarming corporations, who were the earliest enemies of groups working for people's software rights and freedoms.
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Anyone who encounters me here regularly, or has read my writing, will have noticed me using variations of the neologism "#DataFarming". This recent piece by @kboyd sums up exactly what I mean by this term;
https://whateverthing.com/blog/2025/07/20/the-future-is-dumb/
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