Matthew Crain

Interesting story about New York City subsidizing local press by requiring 50% of city agency advertising to go to local news. 50% of the federal government’s 5 billion a year in advertising would be enough to cover the payroll of nearly every journalist in America!https://twitter.com/BNeidhardt/status/1395343134452813828 …

starting from the premise that surveillance capitalism is a pleonasm, one of the reasons it has likely become such a popular one is that it implicitly separates out the tech from the social relations, allowing the former to take the blame for the latter.

1 year renewable remote RA position at @datasociety. "Salary is $60-65k, commensurate with experience, and you will be offered a generous benefits package and paid time off" !https://twitter.com/datasociety/status/1389595446889361416 …

These companies came into existence to spy on Americans in order to facilitate mass-scale, illegal financial racist, ideological and sexual discrimination. They gather data of enormous import and sensitivity - data no one should be gathering, much less retaining and sharing. 34/

Defining what counts as political is political. Discouraging political speech is political. When people in power draw these definitions and enforce these prohibitions, what they're saying is that their politics are the only ones that count, and they won't tolerate dissent.

Technological interventions don't automate out the frictions of consumption--they just shift the costs on to someone else.https://twitter.com/techwontsaveus/status/1385241789746098178 …