Wir berichten ja nicht von jedem Gespräch, das wir führen. Und noch seltener von den Gesprächen, auf die wir verzichten.

Diese Woche aber glauben wir, dass eine Gesprächsanfrage und unsere Entscheidung dazu auch für andere in der Zivilgesellschaft relevant ist, weswegen wir sie hier öffentlich machen.

Eine harmlos klingende Anfrage der US-Regierung und die Brisanz, die darin steckt. Die ganze Geschichte bei uns im Blog:
https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2026/01/wir-muessen-nicht-mit-jedem-reden/

For Those Who Were Told This Is the Best We Can Do:

We were promised a #future.
What we got was a subscription.

The world told us: #Work hard, play fair, and you will rise.
But the elevator was always broken.
Only the penthouse keys worked.

#Capitalism did not #fail.
It did exactly what it was designed to do.

It turned human time into fuel.
It turned life into a cost factor.
It turned dignity into a luxury brand.

The #system says everyone can win.
This is like a casino saying everyone can leave rich.
The building exists because most people lose.

Once the ruling class wore crowns.
Now they wear hoodies, smiles, and stock options.

Once #exploitation needed whips.
Now it needs apps.

You are told you are free.
But your #freedom ends where rent begins.
Where debt begins.
Where #healthcare begins.
Where #survival begins.

This is not freedom.
This is The Hunger Games, except the Capitol convinced the districts to blame each other for the rules.

The poor fight the poor.
The middle class defends a system that is slowly deleting it.
The rich watch it all like a live stream, asking only one question:
“How do we monetize this?”

You are praised for exhaustion.
#Burnout is called ambition.
Rest is called weakness.

A system that needs you tired cannot afford you awake.

They say: Be grateful you have a #job.
As if survival were a gift.
As if obedience were a virtue.

This is the #Matrix, but instead of machines farming bodies, corporations farm attention, energy, and years of your life — and call it “career growth.”

First, it poisons the water.
Then it sells bottled #hope.

First, it destroys #community.
Then it sells “networking.”

First, it creates loneliness.
Then it sells algorithms pretending to be love.

It tells you:
If you are unhappy, it is your fault.
If you are poor, you didn’t optimize hard enough.
If you fail, you didn’t brand yourself properly.

This is not a system of opportunity.
It is a system of blame #management.

No billionaire earned their wealth alone.
They inherited leverage.
They bought laws.
They rented governments.

Every fortune is built on invisible backs.
Every luxury stands on unpaid overtime somewhere else on the planet.

This is Titanic economics:
First class debates wine pairings.
Third class floods.
And the band plays louder so no one hears the structure cracking.

They don’t fear protests.
They fear understanding.

Because the moment people realize:

* #Poverty is structural
* #Exploitation is intentional
* Inequality is profitable

The spell breaks.

That is why they flood us with culture wars.
That is why they keep us scrolling.
That is why they turn politics into reality TV.

A divided working class is the most efficient resource extraction tool ever invented.

We do not need heroes.
We need awareness.

We do not need saviors.
We need solidarity.

The future will not be built by billionaires.
They only know how to extract, not how to care.

A system that cannot imagine human worth without #profit
has already confessed its moral bankruptcy.

Another world is not only possible.
This one is already impossible.

It survives only because we keep mistaking endurance for consent.

History does not move forward politely.
It moves when people stop believing lies that no longer serve them.

And when that happens —
no #algorithm can suppress it,
no #market can absorb it,
no #empire can rebrand it.

Because ideas whose time has come
do not ask for permission.

They arrive.

#criticism #society #politics #protest #justice #change #ethics #humanrights #humanity #moral #finance

Grandiose Recherche von @digitalrechte zur #Palantir Lobbyistin Laura Rudas beim #Digitalgipfel

Ihr moechtet das wirklich gerne lesen und boosten... ach und wenn ihr koennt, die Macher:innen nehmen auch gerne Spenden fuer ihre so wichtige Arbeit an

https://digitalrechte.de/news/palantir-beim-digitalgipfel-am-tisch-mit-merz-und-macron

Die Anti-Palantir Petition beim Landtag von BaWü hat nach zwei Tagen die 2000 Unterzeichnungen Marke geknackt.

2000 Hobbits, bzw 250 Hobbytes sind bereits beim Protest dabei.

Bitte teilt den Hinweis, schickt ihn an eure Kontakte, damit wir schnell auf die 10.000 Mitzeichnende kommen. Oder für ein starkes Signal diese Marke gerne auch völlig sprengen.

Übrigens neue verifizierte Info: Sie kann bundesweit gezeichnet werden.

https://petitionen.landtag-bw.de/Petitionen/Details/b64b8bd2-08aa-40e2-83f1-1c1f85187da4

The Privacy Paradox

Hadn’t realised that this short piece on privacy by Al Jazeera that I contributed to had aired. Apparently did mid August :)

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/aljazeerauntangles/2025/8/13/the-privacy-paradox

#ThePrivacyParadox #privacy #AlJazeera

HEUTE ist der entscheidende Tag für die Positionierung der Bundesregierung.

Bei Petitionen gilt: Viel hilft viel :)

https://weact.campact.de/petitions/chatkontrolle-stoppen

"Fox News did to our parents what our parents were afraid video games would do to us." -- Quoted by Stephen King without attribution.

(Attribution edited after lebout2canap's[0] comment pointing at the research done on the Snopes site[1])

[0] https://mathstodon.xyz/@lebout2canap@mastodon.tedomum.net/115276538330680393

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stephen-king-fox-news-video-games/