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Patrick Leavy
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Save democracy, limit Big Tech.

Calling all #UK people! Please sign this petition to reduce the creepiness of the internet:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713456

BAN BEHAVIOURAL DATA EXTRACTION FOR ADVERTISING

It's a collective problem, so it needs a collective solution 😊

#surveillancecapitalism #creepy #dataprivacy #dataprotection #crypto

Here's a great #book to read: Privacy Is Power by Carissa Veliz

A well written primer on how to fight back against the threat of #surveillancecapitalism

#trackers #threattodemocracy

If your public key is used anywhere you go - all clients - in the Nostr realm, doesn't that make us vulnerable to being profiled by companies to use for advertising?

In other words your public key acts like a persistent advertising ID?

(I'm new to Nostr so forgive me if I've misunderstood!)

Can anyone recommend a spec list for a PC (that will run Linux) that will be a self hosting server?

(Self hosting a website, and home media server. So doesn't need much power?)

Amazing article from #ShoshanaZuboff that explains how #bigtech took over, why they are #antidemocratic, and what we can do about it:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26317877221129290

Spoiler alert - we need to ban #SurveillanceAdvertising, the fuel of #SurveillanceCapitalism

Resist using #algorithms, people - that's the path to #microtargeting and therefore #manipulation, and therefore #fakenews and lack of faith in the truth. And from that you get a herd of dumbasses šŸ˜‚

Great quote from Shoshana Zuboff:

"democracies now stumble toward a future that their citizens did not and would not choose: an ACCIDENTAL DYSTOPIA owned and operated by private surveillance capital, but underwritten by democratic acquiescence, cynicism, collusion and dependency."

Oof 😬

#surveillancecapitalism

Strong recommendation for this excellent new #deathmetal album from Ashen Tomb 🤘

Buy it on Bandcamp and more money goes directly to the band 😊

https://everlastingspew.bandcamp.com/album/ecstatic-death-reign

This article makes you laugh - it's absurd how #google and #meta have online advertising so sewn up - and then cry... What can be done about these bullies?

#adtech #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shatter-ad-tech