Just read this, you can thank me later.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

How much water do the data centres use? It's a secret.

Do you want Immortan Joes? Because this is how you get Immortan Joes. Roanoke gets its drinking water from Carvins Cove Reservoir. The locals tried to find out just how much water Google would be...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4G

La caída mundial de Amazon Web Service ha sido una noticia recogida por todos los medios de comunicación como una simple anécdota, sin profundizar en las implicaciones ni en la realidad que ha destapado.

En Francia, el Partido Comunista Francés ha puesto el foco donde se debe poner: la dependencia de los gigantes tecnológicas y ha sacado el siguiente comunicado. Va hilo 🧵
#AWSDown

Sometimes the internet is really funny - or scary.

The Chrome browser is one example.

While you believe you are browsing the web, Google is browsing you instead.

👉 Check out Leah Elliott's comic on how Google's tracking works: https://contrachrome.com/comic/page01/

👉 And check how to stop this tracking: https://tuta.com/blog/what-does-google-know-about-me

#google #tracking

'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade

https://www.404media.co/careless-people-is-the-book-about-facebook-ive-wanted-for-a-decade/

La narrativa utópica de las BigTech para promover la #iagenerativa se basa en un conjunto de ideologías agrupadas en el acrónimo #tescreal. Ideas de una tecno-secta a la que se le está entregando el control del mundo.

Esta tecnología es sólo la punta del iceberg, un medio para acumular poder y riqueza con el propósito de hacer realidad uno de los delirios colectivos de Silicon Valley: la #eugenesia.

Informe elaborado por @timnitGebru @xriskology

https://www.dair-institute.org/tescreal/

Every few months there are weeks where I have a hard time simply thinking; nothing is clear, thoughts are fuzzy, brain is static.

I try everything from upping exercise, to getting some fresh air; nothing works. And it gets me down because, as you might imagine, I quite like being able to do things inside my head.

And then, suddenly, I realize that I haven't blasted my brain with music in a while.

And then I do that, and I can think again.