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Combating Hypercapitalism with Mutual Aid

03/05/2024

Every so often, I write articles for David Farrier’s Webworm. This one was about why and how moving activity from online to offline is a good thing, and if you help people IRL that’s even better. This was originally published on 3 May 2024.

Here is an excerpt:

The entire piece summed up in a collage.
The entire piece summed up in a collage.

You’re not getting ads for [insert product-you-were-talking-to-your-friend-about-but-have-never-ever-searched-for here] because your phone is listening to you. You’re getting those ads because Big Tech has gigs and gigs of data about you specifically and probably plenty of petabytes of data about every other person who has ever used the internet ever. They can predict you better than you can.

This is hyper capitalism in the digital age. Welcome welcome welcome.

You can read the whole story here on Webworm.

Smash capitalism, bro.

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