Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸
Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸  ·  3 months ago
✨ Let's normalize resistance to #BigTech and #SurveillanceCapitalism ✨

The links page of my website:

"I don’t use TikTok or platforms owned by Meta & co. for reasons I outlined in this blog post (TL;DR: behavior modification and illusion of connection for purposes of surveillance capitalism).

In case you couldn’t find me anymore, I recently deactivated my Instagram, Threads and LinkedIn profiles and I deleted my 3 Twitter accounts (since their change of ownership).

https://elenarossini.com/links/

A screenshot of the links page of my website, which reads: Links Let’s keep in touch! Important! I don’t use TikTok or platforms owned by Meta & co. for reasons I outlined in this blog post (TL;DR: behavior modification and illusion of connection for purposes of surveillance capitalism). In case you couldn’t find me anymore, I recently deactivated my Instagram, Threads and LinkedIn profiles and I permanently deleted my 3 Twitter (X) accounts (since their change of ownership). The social media platform I use the most is Mastodon (part of the Fediverse) but I’m listing here all my existing (mostly legacy) social media profiles...
A screenshot of the links page of my website, which reads: Links Let’s keep in touch! Important! I don’t use TikTok or platforms owned by Meta & co. for reasons I outlined in this blog post (TL;DR: behavior modification and illusion of connection for purposes of surveillance capitalism). In case you couldn’t find me anymore, I recently deactivated my Instagram, Threads and LinkedIn profiles and I permanently deleted my 3 Twitter (X) accounts (since their change of ownership). The social media platform I use the most is Mastodon (part of the Fediverse) but I’m listing here all my existing (mostly legacy) social media profiles...
A screenshot of the links page of my website, which reads: Links Let’s keep in touch! Important! I don’t use TikTok or platforms owned by Meta & co. for reasons I outlined in this blog post (TL;DR: behavior modification and illusion of connection for purposes of surveillance capitalism). In case you couldn’t find me anymore, I recently deactivated my Instagram, Threads and LinkedIn profiles and I permanently deleted my 3 Twitter (X) accounts (since their change of ownership). The social media platform I use the most is Mastodon (part of the Fediverse) but I’m listing here all my existing (mostly legacy) social media profiles...
Autiste à :ch_Vaud:🌊 #woke
Autiste à :ch_Vaud:🌊 #woke  ·  3 months ago
#Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) – https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/26/hawtch-hawtch/#you-treasure-what-you-measure

This hawtch-hawtch metaphore by Dr. Seuss does indeed sumrises really well the shape 2.0. #neoliberalism and #surveillancecapitalism have taken over the last 20 years. As @pluralistic says it, we are becoming "reverse centaurs", that is, we are augmenting machines supposed to do our job better but can't. We are like Elon Musk's supposedly autonomous robots....humans disguised as robots.

Bedoya starts with a delightful analogy to The Hawtch-Hawtch, a mythical town from a Dr Seuss poem. The Hawtch-Hawtch economy is based on beekeeping, and the Hawtchers develop an overwhelming obsession with their bee's laziness, and determine to wring more work (and more honey) out of him. So they appoint a "bee-watcher." But the bee doesn't produce any more honey, which leads the Hawtchers to suspect their bee-watcher might be sleeping on the job, so they hire a bee-watcher-watcher. When that doesn't work, they hire a bee-watcher-watcher-watcher, and so on and on.
Bedoya starts with a delightful analogy to The Hawtch-Hawtch, a mythical town from a Dr Seuss poem. The Hawtch-Hawtch economy is based on beekeeping, and the Hawtchers develop an overwhelming obsession with their bee's laziness, and determine to wring more work (and more honey) out of him. So they appoint a "bee-watcher." But the bee doesn't produce any more honey, which leads the Hawtchers to suspect their bee-watcher might be sleeping on the job, so they hire a bee-watcher-watcher. When that doesn't work, they hire a bee-watcher-watcher-watcher, and so on and on.
Bedoya starts with a delightful analogy to The Hawtch-Hawtch, a mythical town from a Dr Seuss poem. The Hawtch-Hawtch economy is based on beekeeping, and the Hawtchers develop an overwhelming obsession with their bee's laziness, and determine to wring more work (and more honey) out of him. So they appoint a "bee-watcher." But the bee doesn't produce any more honey, which leads the Hawtchers to suspect their bee-watcher might be sleeping on the job, so they hire a bee-watcher-watcher. When that doesn't work, they hire a bee-watcher-watcher-watcher, and so on and on.
Sevoris
Sevoris  ·  5 months ago
On one hand, carmakers have discovered that cars are glorious sources to draw upon to squeeze more money out of people - be that subscription features or #surveillancecapitalism. (ref https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#more-5628 by @pluralistic )

On the other hand, we have gigantic API security holes you can about *literally* drive a car through, from causes as simple as:

❞“It’s really simple. They weren't checking if a user is a dealer,” says Rivera. “And that's kind of a big issue.”❝

https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/