Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 10

https://octodon.social/media/UfSQrT4sa6JRIM9r7rc

It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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Laughing a bit at "advice to young [insert career here]" things that basically advise single-handedly changing the market to be paid fairly for your work but don't advise e.g. joining a union or building a community of solidarity. Good luck with that.

I spoke with The Guardian for a podcast recently and it’s now live: Digital dystopia: tech slavery and the death of privacy.

“Is the internet broken? And has the utopian 90s net been replaced by digital feudalism, where a few powerful entities wield control over all of us digital serfs? … To kick off, we explore whether our privacy has been compromised by the tech giants whose business models depend on harvesting and monetising our data.“

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2018/jan/12/digital-dystopia-end-of-privacy-tech-podcast

I keep on posting examples that look the same, but this one was made with a completely different set of tools: opentype.js -> svg-mesh-3d -> p5.js (kind of a hassle to get working tbh but will hopefully be wayyy more versatile for these experiments moving forward) https://mastodon.social/media/Mwq4ZesNa2DTzAv2_Qo

Monologue of the Algorithm: how Facebook turns users data into its profit

Does Facebook identify and manipulate our feelings? Is it able to recognize our personality type, habits, interests, political views, wages? Does it use all the information in order to reach us with personalized ads or sponsored content? You bet!..
https://vimeo.com/249633335

For us, everything that seeks to destroy economic and political oppression, all that which serves to raise the moral and intellectual level of human beings, to give them the consciousness of their rights and of their forces and to persuade them to do their business by themselves, all that provokes hatred against oppression and love between people, brings us closer to our aim.
-- Errico Malatesta

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@cypnk yeah. i feel like printers are an unusually clear example of all the ways that the market slowly but irresistibly unsolves a class of solved problems.