Aral BalkanRE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116766280029168108
X but make it W.
#EuropeWashing #WSocial #EUCommission #BigTech #VC #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism
“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
– Yours truly, in @_elena’s excellent exposé on W Social.
Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).
#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
@prometheus Almost like they’re a factory farm for human beings or something.
RE: https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/116732194100466437
Goodness, I wish someone had warned us about this shit, oh I don’t know, maybe over a decade ago?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pettet8/116742131579090788
“Google was a different company 9 years ago.”
Hmm… was it, though? 🤔
https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie
#google #BigTech #peopleFarming #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #meaCulpa
DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰMaybe that's why they want everybody on #PlayStore ? 🤔 « #Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train #AI »
› https://www.404media.co/google-is-quietly-buying-code-from-play-store-developers-to-train-ai/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/116648057763919880
SOND, a startup that farms you for your vitals while you sleep (and will never share that data with the insurance industry, pinky promise), exits stealth with $7M
“…the device tracks signals like respiration, heart rate variability, cardiorespiratory coupling, sleep staging, body position, snoring, and seismocardiography (SCG, or the mechanical vibrations of the chest wall produced by the beating heart).
This sensor data streams in real time to a cloud-based AI sleep coach that then selects a sleep audio program, or generates one on demand, learning over time which ones work best for the individual user.”
#surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #startups #VC #BigTech #health #sleep #sond
This is what peak capitalism looks like.
#mirror #capitalism #adtech #BigTech #surveillance #peopleFarming
RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116612379708940802
I don’t understand why one of the largest factory farms for human beings is acting this way.