packetcat
and Shoshana also corrects another misconception that is important: we (as in the general populace) are not the products that surveillance capitalists sell, we are the raw material which they then extract, process and sell to their actual customers (in the case of Google, its advertisers)
or as she succinctly puts it, "we are the means to others' ends".
packetcat
read more of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and in the chapter I just finished reading Shoshana is talking about the origins of Google and how the combined pressures of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s and venture capital circling forced it to hand wave away the founder's dislike for ads in search engines
and how that caused it start using the behavioural surplus it gathered from search queries to essentially create surveillance capitalism as we know it today
Sylvia Ritter
Speedpainting 17072019. #art #illustration #mastoart
Am Ende des Fadens 🛰
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packetcat
if any of y'all in Canada need this, Domino's Canada has a 50% off thing going on for all pizzas at menu price for online orders only, valid till July 21st
code is CAG5014 but you'll see the offer on dominos.ca
[don't @ me with opinions about their pizza, it doesn't matter and I don't care]
packetcat
so I guess Stellar changed his mind about retirement from the scene huh
packetcat
Boston Uprising sign Stellar
https://twitter.com/bostonuprising/status/1150857889336221697?s=21
packetcat
Age of Dragons by Emerald Gao
"Luffy and the rest of the ex-Kongdoo core purged their demons by finally becoming champions. And then there’s Gamsu, whose five-year gaming career had never even come close to reaching these heights. “This is my first time winning, and it’s really hard for me to put it into words, but I’m very happy,” he said, beaming from ear to ear."
https://overwatchleague.com/en-us/news/23051714/age-of-dragons
✨ OㅅO ✨:heart_sp_les3:
Finally, REAL science
#OverwatchLeague
packetcat
somebody hooked up their ticketing system into the outages mailing list and it flooded the list
Jay was not happy about it heh
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2019-July/012477.html
packetcat
started reading The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu today
it is very strange
Sylvia Ritter
Speedpainting 15072019. #art #illustration #mastoart
packetcat
Robert Paul has some fantastic photos as always from yesterday's OWL stage 3 finals 📷
Guinan
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packetcat
really happy that the Dragons won the stage 3 finals!
Day 194
packetcat
Coma bodyblocks barrage to give DDing a 3k
pound shop post malone
saying this bc Shanghai managed to defeat 3 of the strongest 3-3 teams in the league who have, in the past, looked unstoppable
not that they're all one tricks, Shock still do a decent flex but Diem,DDing and Youngfist are gonna be a serious force to be reckoned with in stage 4 #OverwatchLeague
packetcat
also shoutout to Wolf & Achilios for doing the amazing casting they do for their first OWL stage finals
packetcat
seriously this is why I watch this stuff, these are the moments
pound shop post malone
Anyway I think we can call the GOATS meta well and truly buried now #OverwatchLeague
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