#Data Colonialism

[felicitypdf]

Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism

[collapseofindustrialcivilization]

Empire Of Extraction: AI, Capitalism, And The Unraveling Of The Biosphere

A Brave New AI World The 21st century is witnessing a convergence of crises unprecedented in both scale and complexity. At the forefront is the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI), a technology whose development and deployment have become emblematic of broader shifts in global power, economic extraction, and environmental destabilization. AI’s rise is not occurring in a vacuum; it…

[hellyeahheroes]

How Big Tech Steals Our Livesby Andrewism

[communistkenobi]

I’m downloading shapefiles (basically geographic files, in this case the polygons of every country) for a mapping project I’m doing and while most countries have an ISO code column in their file (which is a 2 letter abbreviation of their country name), Canada, the UK, and the US do not. The US doesn’t even have a country column, it just listed the states. Now these are official shapefiles made by the vendor of the software I’m using (Esri, which is one of if not the dominant global distributor of mapping software) and are treated as the authoritative copies. Like if you wanted to download the outline of the US and all its states you would download Esri’s copy of it. And the reason I noticed this discrepancy is because I’m trying to combine individual country files to a global world file and I first had to edit the US & UK & Canada shapefiles and manually add in their ISO codes so they would join the world file properly. Notably countries like Argentina already have country & ISO code embedded in its shapefile.

And what I’m taking away from this is that there is an epistemic assumption happening where western countries can stand alone - they do not need to be combined or compared with other countries, they are complete units that constitute their own global file. Their data lack an “international character,” they are not set up for comparison or combination with other country data. The assumption being made by excluding these (extraordinarily trivial and easy to include) datapoints is that the only reason you would be downloading shapefiles for the US or Canada is to study these countries in isolation, while countries in the Global South are structured to accommodate the act of comparison

[iamthepulta]

Going down the rabbit hole of mercury poisoning and archaeological toxicology in South America has me losing my mind. I'm overwhelmed and out of my league but it feels like all the pieces are fitting into place and they're all bad and I can't stop now.

[psychiatricmentalhealthfacility]

Claiming those without sufficient technological or life extension access are proven criminals or non-citizens or are artificial simulations resembling life that do not need technological access or to have data recorded in relation to them. Criminals claiming their victims are merely automated. Automatics. Automated.

[ensign-rx]

me, showing my mom the (sfw version of the) kinktober halloween pic i'm working on: Check this out! It's fan art for a fanfic author I really like, this is Data and Lore dressed as the Egyptian gods Thoth and Horus

my mom: Data and who?

me: Lore, Data's twin brother.

my mom: oh that's right.

me: Anyways which option for Lore's outfit do you like better? The right or left version?

my mom: I like Data's outfit

me: I know, I'm happy with it. but what about Lore's? Which version?

my mom: Well I don't like Lore so I don't care about him

[spacedadsupport]

Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Today I choose to repeat something I said in the past but highlight how this directive does not change even as the people in need of assistance do. Quote Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport · Aug 18, 2021 We must always reach out to help those who are fleeing great peril, each of us to the best of our abilities, always without hesitation or prejudice. 4:28 PM · Aug 18, 2024

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[aetherglade-reborn]

One day, 2d laser printers will be open source and we can finally beat the monopolies. I know this will happen someday because i am part of the effort.

The reason for this push is because all technology should be modular and repairable by the end user, not just laptops or tractors.

Printers may cost more to produce by the end user, but proprietary printer's ecological impacts are not negligible nor are they sustainable.

Considering their impact on the imperial periphery is important to make tech sustainable and equitable

By making 2d printers open source, we loosen the stranglehold on data colonialism and proprietary components and reduce the need for plundered materials.

We need support in the open source. You can help significantly in projects that don't have a lot of flashiness or style but are vital utilities for daily living.

Contributing to the open source on a hardware, software, or firmware level helps significantly. even just mentioning it can be impactful to someone.

I never want to stop caring about people, animals or the environment.

[psxui]

Colony Wars III: Red Sun (2000) - Enter Save Name

[folykill]

trying to focus on my(online, untimed) final exam but my head is full of hiveswap. what the hell do jadebloods do after exile.

[yellowmanula]

popatrz algorytmie, wychodzę ci naprzeciw, karm się moimi reakcjami, szerami, moimi bańkami, moimi afektami, wciąż jest język który ja też mogę podpatrywać u ciebie.

[comradecowplant]

"Steven Universe queer, ketamine queer" instead of inventing new meaningless LGBTQ binaries born from consumerism, unite via your similarities instead-- being imperialist running dogs & not reading enough revolutionary communist literature.

[chattingwithmodels]

A History of Cybersecurity

in the Twenty-First Century 🧠 TL;DR – A History of Cybersecurity in the 21st Century 🔐💻 🔍 Overview:From the early 2000s to the 2020s, cybersecurity has evolved dramatically in response to increasingly sophisticated threats. What started with experimental worms has escalated into ransomware, nation-state cyber warfare, and AI-powered attacks. 📅 2000s – The Worm Era 🪱 Famous viruses: ILOVEYOU,…

[takemetotheenterprise]

Also while yes, future humans might have robot pets, we would fight long and hard to keep real furry pets as well. Humanity's love for small furry animals has been with us for thousands of years. Why would it stop once we leave Earth?

never understood those futuristic/sci-fi settings where they have robot pets..... no way in hell cats are going out of business

[oconnor2024]

The Colony Property Tax Statistics

The Colony Property Taxes are exploding at a rate much faster than CPI + population growth.The rate of property tax growth was 127% faster than the rate of population + CPI. Find out more here on The Colony Property Taxes : https://www.poconnor.com/the-colony-property-tax/