#data collection

[fruitfulchaos]

GO BURN CD'S. GO FILL PHYSICAL DISCS. PIRATE EVERYTHING. DOWNLOAD BOOKS, MUSIC, GAMES, SHOWS, FILMS. SAVE SNAPSHOTS ON WAYBACK. FUCK THE MEDIA COMPANIES. STREAMING ISN'T FOREVER. PURCHASE ISN'T OWNERSHIP. FORGE THE OWNERSHIP WITH YOUR OWN HANDS. MAKE MEDIA YOUR BITCH. STAY VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

[filtheopathic]

no nuance >:)

[scleroticstatue]

Leverage Bad Guys by Type

1.01: businessmen

1.02: politicians

1.03: criminals

1.04: businessmen

1.05: businessmen

1.06: businessmen (with minor criminals)

1.07: corporation

1.08: politicians

1.09: criminals (with minor politicians)

1.10: businessmen

1.11: criminals

1.12: businessmen

1.13: businessmen

2.01: businessmen and criminals

2.02: businessmen

2.03: businessmen

2.04: businessmen but also criminals

2.05: newscaster

2.06: businessmen

2.07: criminals with minor businessmen

2.08: businessmen with minor criminals

2.09: businessmen

2.10: criminals but also businessmen

2.11: criminals

2.12: politicians

2.13: businessmen with minor criminals

2.14: politicians

2.15: politicians and criminals

3.01: businessmen

3.02: businessmen

3.03: businessmen

3.04: politicians

3.05: businessmen

3.06: businessmen

3.07: militiamen

3.08: businessmen and criminals

3.09: criminals

3.10: businessmen

3.11: it's complicated

3.12: criminals

3.13: businessmen who're criminals

3.14: businessmen with criminals

3.15: criminals

3.16: politicians and criminals

4.01: businessmen

4.02: businessmen

4.03: businessmen

4.04: criminals

4.05: businessmen

4.06: businessmen but criminals

4.07: businessmen and criminals

4.08: criminals

4.09: businessmen

4.10: scientists

4.11: college kids and politicians

4.12: businessmen

4.13: criminals

4.14: criminals

4.15: criminals

4.16: businessmen

4.17: criminals but it's complicated

4.18: criminals but it's complicated

5.01: businessmen

5.02: businessmen

5.03: businessmen

5.04: businessmen

5.05: businessmen with minor politicians

5.06: criminals

5.07: criminals

5.08: criminals

5.09: criminals

5.10: businessmen

5.11: businessmen

5.12: businessmen

5.13: businessmen

5.14: businessmen but also criminals but also politicians

[tengirl]

here we are: series 14 (or series 1 or whatever you want to call it lol) is over. i made an updated survey based on last year’s to reflect this if you guys want to fill it out 💫☄️🪐🛸

i’ll close responses in 2 months on august 25th :)

[eddieintheocean]

have u guys ever seen a sexier spreadsheet

[dadewigane]

July 24, 2025

"President Trump signed an executive order today directing states to criminalize unhoused people and institutionalize people with mental health disabilities and substance use disorder.

The order, titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets,” directs the Justice Department to expand indefinite forced treatment for people with mental health disabilities or substance use disorder, and those living on the street who “cannot care for themselves.” The order also purports to eliminate federal funding for evidence-based programs, like harm reduction and housing first, that save lives, and directs federal funds toward cities and states that criminalize substance use disorder, punish people for sleeping outdoors, or enforce other laws targeting unhoused people.

The order also calls for sweeping federal data collection on unhoused people and those with mental health disabilities, raising serious concerns about surveillance, privacy, and how such data could be used to justify further criminalization. Instead of funding services or support, the administration is prioritizing profiling and control."

[thefugitivesaint]

''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.

[there-are-4-lights]

i found this article by a trans person that's about why they decided against hosting a trans day of remembrance event.

it boils down to "i've spent so long thinking people were out to get me and trans people were murdered all the time, i looked into the numbers, turns out they're not and that's good news so let's stop scaring and misleading people (while also treating the deaths of the people who do get killed with respect)".

so if you need a source from a queer outlet to show people that the statistics are bogus, and that the trans community has an interest in good data collection, here you go:

[annie-aquatic]

HOENN PEOPLE

[alchemicalterror]

i have a hard time believing you were ever married i mean you run a tumblr blog

....Uh-huh. Right. Hey folks, social experiment time:

[futurebird]

Here is a cool little gadget I'd never heard of before. It's a temperature datalogger. It lasts 60 days. Sadly I think it may be disposable (but I'd imagine rechargeable versions exist. )

Suppose you are shipping fruit across the country and you've paid extra to have the trucks chilled down to 65F. How do you know they didn't ship them at 75F and only lower the temp fully just before arrival?

Hide this bad boy in your shipment, then check the USB for data on arrival.

They cost about $4 each.

I'm fascinated by things like this for reasons I can't possibly articulate.

I almost bought one just to try it out and take it apart... but instead I'll just tell ya'll about it... I bet there are other interesting ways to use such a device. For example... you could detect if a chair is being sat in or not by putting it inside of a pillow...

[robertmatejcek]

After Nature: Untitled Data Model No. Two (Pecan Tree, English Ivy, Northern Cardinal, White-Eyed Vireo, Carolina Wren) - mixed media frame animation - robert matejcek - 2025

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” - Theodore Roethke

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[amethystgoldenwind]

ROTTMNT question cuz I need another opinion

For my Bad Things Happen Bingo, one of my prompts is 'Peer Pressure'. I have an idea for Leo, but I've been reading some posts that kind of have made me realize that he... might not be the one to pick for this. I want to stay in character.

So, my question is as follows.

Which of the four Mad Dogs do you think would be most susceptible to peer pressure from an outside group? Not among each other (things change when it's just the four of them).

This is for my own thought process, not me asking for prompt requests. If you're willing, please give me your opinion, preferably with backing, and I'll take it into consideration.

[more-flotsam-and-jetsam]

[mossy-morg]

New survey is here! Please do it and share because I need as many answers as I can by tomorrow!

Please fill out and share/reblog!