"For example, I think Google [NZ] pays out about 95-97% of all the revenue that it earns [in "service fees" to the parent company] ... and FaceBook would be very similar, Uber would be. The percentages vary, but it's most of it, in all cases."
#NickMiller, Tax Justice Aotearoa, 2025
https://www.1of200.nz/podcast/1200-s2e160-big-tech-better-taxes
#podcasts #1of200 #TaxJusticeAotearoa #DataFarms #TaxAvoidance #Google #FaceBook #Uber
@jonathanharker
> I deleted mine today
I don't know if it will work on Discord, but I usually leave my accounts on DataFarms parked, with a Gone to Croatan note pointing to the fediverse, etc.
For context on "Gone to Croatan";
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/558-gone-to-croatan-by-hakim-bey
‘Across the globe biodiversity is under siege’ Irfaan Ali, Guyanese President.
Yet Trump and his fascist tech bros want to accelerate its end with data farms to strengthen their ultras totalitarian world order. All that will do is turn sustainable energy into fields of toxic waste and extreme climate chaos. Uniformity, Exclusion and Inequality is a death cult. It accelerates Entropy, as in useful resources into unusable resources. Who will stop them, once billions start dying? The people I reckon will want to tear them limb from limb even if to late just to feel better about the great lie and steal they bought into! #EndOfEarth #UEI #EmpireIsNotGreat #DataFarms #EmpireIsSelfDestructive #EcocideEmpire
@bonfire
> We're tracking mockups and implementation progress here
FYI I'd love to help. But from Jan 1 2025 onwards, I refuse to do anything that requires logging in to GritHub. For the same reason I refuse to maintain an account on FarceBook.
Even reading GH pages on mobile is starting to require allowing this BorgSoft-controlled platform to run JS in my browser.
"As we become aware as a public we're putting pressure on our democratic institutions. We need new law, we need new regulatory regimes that interrupt and outlaw the key mechanisms of surveillance capitalism. Including the very principles of taking human experience unilaterally and turning it into data ... do we want a dominant capitalism that trades in behavioural futures?"
#ShoshanaZuboff, 2019
#podcasts #Vox #RecodeDecode #SurveillanceCapitalism #DataFarms #platforms
"Maybe we should stop conversing in the billionaire machine where they make money out of our arguments ... Data is the new f'ckn oil. Like, where are these people getting their money from? Our behaviour. They're mining our behaviour like oil."
#BlindBoy Boathouse, 2025
https://shows.acast.com/blindboy/episodes/the-science-of-happiness-with-an-expert-psychologist
Professor Bruce Hood is an experimental psychologist and philosopher
"The universe of firms could be limited to the largest social media companies, such as Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok. Perhaps it could also be extended to other large technology companies, such as Amazon or Apple, or other critical companies in the internet stack."
#NathanielPersily,
#JoshuaATucker, 2021
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-to-fix-social-media-start-with-independent-research/
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"Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are structured around a social graph in which users follow and are followed by other users. In turn, the content we see depends on what’s shared in our network."
#ZeveSanderson, #SolomonMessing,
#JoshuaATucker, 2024
Ugghh, no. This was true of all 3 DataFarms when they first started. But all 3 have been inserting posts into people's feeds from outside their social graph for years.
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Thinking about this some more, the story I tend to tell about moving from the DataFarms to the fediverse is a political-economic one. About who's in control of the social web - and the development of digital tech in general - and who gets to make money from it.
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I'm in two minds about public media outlets like RNZ publishing the video they produce on YouRube;
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp4OXwfZE1SaCQ4jRAuaoXQ
It makes sense for publicly-funded media to publish anywhere that members of the public might be, especially where we don't have to pay. In fact, any media funded 100% with public money ought to be under a CreativeCommons BY-SA license, or even placed in the public domain. So *anyone* can publish it, anywhere they like.
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Strypey
Paul Healey
