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Aral Balkan<p>When Silicon Valley says “jump!” Ireland asks “How high, daddy?”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/digitalImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/institutionalCorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>institutionalCorruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/climateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DataCentres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCentres</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/113559988974673492" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/</span><span class="invisible">113559988974673492</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>One from the vaults: A Nancy Writes Back (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Digital Imperialism)</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/notes/a-nancy-writes-back-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-digital-imperialism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/notes/a-nancy-writes-bac</span><span class="invisible">k-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-digital-imperialism/</span></a></p><p>I wrote that post ten years ago.</p><p>Here’s where we are today:</p><p><a href="https://small-tech.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">small-tech.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Here’s where they are:</p><p><a href="http://www.wearableworld.co" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">wearableworld.co</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>(Do not adjust your browsers, yes, it’s a 404.)</p><p>🤷‍♂️ </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DigitalImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalImperialism</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>“Privacy considerations: Todo”</p><p>You can’t make this shit up.</p><p>(I guess Google’s PR department hasn’t gotten round to submitting the copy for that section yet.)</p><p><a href="https://rupertbenwiser.github.io/Web-Environment-Integrity/#privacy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rupertbenwiser.github.io/Web-E</span><span class="invisible">nvironment-Integrity/#privacy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/WebEnvironmentIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebEnvironmentIntegrity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EvilAsAService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvilAsAService</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/PeopleFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DigitalImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/adtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DRM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/WebStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebStandards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/w3c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>w3c</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>Google: Here’s our latest evil plan…</p><p>Folks: That’s an evil plan, we don’t like it.</p><p>Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EvilAsAService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EvilAsAService</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/PeopleFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DigitalImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/adtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DRM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/WebStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebStandards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/w3c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>w3c</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>People debating which trillion-dollar Silicon Valley corporation is better is like livestock rating factory farms.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/PeopleFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DigitalImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Neocolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neocolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/theInfrastructureForFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theInfrastructureForFascism</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@Nick_Craver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nick_Craver</span></a></span> The problem isn’t AI and computers taking over the world. The problem is trillion-dollar corporations with AI and computers taking over the world.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/digitalImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/siliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>siliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/machineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machineLearning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/corporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporatocracy</span></a></p>
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