Sell yourself (by the kilo)

It’s not enough to be a recognized “persona” in the vast cyberspace… It’s not enough to be an influencer, youtuber, tiktoker or anything similar… It’s not enough to be paid …

Inadvertently (totally…)

The australian government, wanting to protect the health of its citizens (what else would a government want today?), last April, suggested that they download a contact-tracing application on their mobile …

what a world!

Under no circumstances would we recommend… netflix to anyone! Or anything like that. (Some book yes…) But on the occasion of the documentary “the social dilemma”, where various “repentant” executives / inventors of applications and technologies that have proven to be huge commercial successes and cultural / intellectual / moral hurricanes (related to antisocial media) become accusers of their own works, consider this: Would you ever trust a fetishist (of technology, religion, commodity) even if he or she sincerely wanted to set you free from a fetishism?

constructions of realities.

How easy is it for everyone to create their own reality? However easy it used to be in the past, the possibilities offered by the new technologies of the 4th industrial revolution make it even easier – and more “fun”. As the means change and evolve, the end remains the same; to create and maintain ideologies. Here are two of the many tools that can be used by anyone to create “fake news” and / or “fake faces”.

Person-Generated Health Data

We know that there are many, too many, those who find it difficult (? – refuse? – are unable?) to connect the 4th industrial revolution with the mega-management not of …

Contact surveillance – the applications

On May 5, england began the pilot application of the contact surveillance platform on White Isle. Undersecretary of state for “health and social welfare” Matt Hancock announced the launch of …

Social alienation and “contact” surveillance

Something tell us (not “something”, but many things tell us!) that when from this marginal corner of cyberspace we insist that the supposedly killer covid-19 virus is the alibi for …

Censorship techniques: an apartheid’s example

The israeli apartheid on palestinian land could not, at a time when information “circulates freely”, fail to also include a corresponding digital apartheid, or the control and censorship in information concerning itself and circulating on the world wide web. The practice of censorship or reality distortion was always the basic toolbox of any totalitarian regime. And israel sets the example for even that.

Emergency button

It has (or it say it has) 50 million users/customers worldwide. Perhaps they are not many. The online matchmaking app Tinder, and its owner, deserves to celebrate this accomplishment, establishing …

Boiling Frogs

There is an urban legend, a variation of an older fairy tale, which explains how to boil a living frog. As the legend says, if you put a frog into …

Not much freedom

The existence of “likes” on social media may not be beneficial. Its inventors, of course, had the good in mind. The ability of users to express their (positive) taste; or, …