The amount, 1.4 billion dollars, may seem large. But it is insignificant: just 1/10 of the company’s profits in the second quarter of 2024… Consequently, Meta Platforms (reminder: the parent …
The “Immaculate Conception of Data”
When a farmer buys a tractor from the agricultural machinery company John Deere, they receive a license to operate the vehicle. Nowadays, tractors are not like the old vehicles of …
Lavender: The artificial intelligence machine that directs Israel’s bombings in Gaza
In the previous issue we made a small tribute to the “automation” of the murders of Palestinians in Gaza… We return with the presentation of a “new automation”, an automation …
Networking everywhere!
Do you think that the “internet of bodies” is a fantastic and far-fetched idea-for-the-future? You’re wrong! Look at how many hands wear smart watches: they record various kinds of personal …
Human intelligence…
Not a few were those who, considering that the theonazi, apartheid regime was “armed to the teeth” from every aspect, could not have suffered the defeat of October 7th without …
Gaza: factory of mass murders
According to the IDF spokesperson, by November 10, during the first 35 days of fighting, Israel attacked a total of 15,000 targets in Gaza. Based on multiple sources, this number …
Data above all
When the interim government was caught (“by mistake”) having made an agreement with the notorious American (agent of the CIA and the Pentagon…) Palantir, secretly assigning to it the collection …
Technological metaphysics (a note on “artificial intelligence”)
The ChatGPT app gained 100,000,000 (100 million) active users in just two months from its release: it is a world record for the speed at which a technological application has …
the monitoring of daily life
In recent years, a wide range of companies has begun to monitor people in almost every aspect of their lives. Behaviors, movements, social relationships, interests, disabilities, and most private moments …
Welcome
Where else? In the algorithmic prison. Companies and governments use information about us in a new—and uniquely insidious—way. By exploiting massive data files, most of it harvested from the internet, …
data, more data: surveillance and punishment in everyday life
Surveillance has been transformed from an element of governance into governance itself. It is simultaneously government (system) and governability (self-awareness and cooperation, where the imprisoned becomes the guardian of himself). …
The mechanics of the public: Big Data in parliament
In its complaint, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) describes how, with a data sample obtained from Kochava, it was possible to identify a device that visited a women’s reproductive health …