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Here is a link to the US Restrict Act (commonly known as the TikTok ban) as it is currently written.
Please read the actual bill and share even if you do not live in the United States. The precedents this piece of legislation would set would have far reaching impacts on how the internet is used for everyone in the future.
so i’m checking the news and there’s this article about apple i want to read and
here’s what happens if you click on it
i guess they mad but also like… censorship…
''The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power'' by Shoshana Zuboff, 2018 "I define surveillance capitalism as the unilateral claiming of private human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. These data are then computed and packaged as prediction products and sold into behavioral futures markets — business customers with a commercial interest in knowing what we will do now, soon, and later. It was Google that first learned how to capture surplus behavioral data, more than what they needed for services, and used it to compute prediction products that they could sell to their business customers, in this case advertisers. But I argue that surveillance capitalism is no more restricted to that initial context than, for example, mass production was restricted to the fabrication of Model T’s. Right from the start at Google it was understood that users were unlikely to agree to this unilateral claiming of their experience and its translation into behavioral data. It was understood that these methods had to be undetectable. So from the start the logic reflected the social relations of the one-way mirror. They were able to see and to take — and to do this in a way that we could not contest because we had no way to know what was happening. We rushed to the internet expecting empowerment, the democratization of knowledge, and help with real problems, but surveillance capitalism really was just too lucrative to resist. This economic logic has now spread beyond the tech companies to new surveillance–based ecosystems in virtually every economic sector, from insurance to automobiles to health, education, finance, to every product described as “smart” and every service described as “personalized.” By now it’s very difficult to participate effectively in society without interfacing with these same channels that are supply chains for surveillance capitalism’s data flows." from an interview with Shoshana Zuboff in the Harvard Gazette in March of 2019. It's an interesting interview that I suggest you peruse.
Bitch, I thought you were dead.
This is a very short online survey open to ANYBODY. It takes only 5-10 minutes to complete, it’s all 100% anonymous, and I really, really need you to take it right now.
Long story short, I’m working on my master’s degree and my dissertation is due NEXT WEEK. As in, September 16, 2016 next week. I’ve been having a difficult academic year, so I was slow to start gathering data and it’s been difficult for me to boost my participant numbers to an acceptable level. I need a lot of participants, and it’s looking unlikely that I’ll get there in time.
Despite my having tried my best to keep my real life and my fandom life reasonably apart, I’m starting to figure that I’m in desperate times. So: desperate measures. Please take 5 to 10 minutes (it’s a super short and easy survey) and fill this out so that I can at least try to graduate this year. I’m encouraging you to reblog this post for the next five days and to signal boost the hell out of it, because I need all the help I can get.
I miss being more active in fandom. I miss writing. I miss all the friends I made here that I don’t really talk to much these days. Finishing my degree would be a big step towards my finding my way back to enjoying fandom in a more healthy and diligent manner. So…I’d really appreciate it if you guys helped me out.
Thank you.
HEADS UP! (Important)
I put this in the comments already, but just to be clear I'm hoping to have this effective by tomorrow. I think I should bite the bullet and start doing this quickly because the last three "followers" I got I'm pretty sure are spam bots. I don't want things to get out of hand and end up having over 100 "followers" that are bots.
If I want real people followers then I'm going to work for it, dangit!