“You are not the customer, you are the abandoned carcass. The real customer is the market that trades in your future behaviour.” - Shoshana Zuboff

Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism has been on my list for a long time - finally diving in. It’s unsettling, brilliant, and painfully relevant. I wrote a short piece distilling her core message and what it means for digital freedom today.

  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    Is this data bubble ever going to fuckung pop? So tired of this shit? I don’t want to live the rest of life like this. Who tf wants to have kids in this nightmare?

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    14 hours ago

    Data and AI technologies are built for large institutions to enhance their power and dominant over individuals.