Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman

I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.

#tech #technology #privacy #data #comic #cartoon #surveillance #consumers #corporations

Short documentary about the effect of the "Citizens United v. FEC" 2010 US supreme court decision, which gave corporations, wealthy individuals and secret donors far more power over the US electoral system. It also provides a brief history of corporations in the United States and their effect on politics.

Written by Annie Leonard, Jonah Sachs, Louis Fox
Produced by Free Range Studios
Executive Producer Erica Priggen
Director Louis Fox

Published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (more details at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0).

So remember folks, support huge EU corporations like this German one instead of US ones because our European Values™ are… oh…

“What Europe needs is something like DOGE.” – Tim Höttges, CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG (also, an asshole)

#EU #USA #fascism #corporatocracy #corporations #capitalism #EuroDOGE https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/114109161159516607

Need a brief and accessible explainer about the actual harms of AI?

Show folks this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM

@thejuicemedia hitting it out of the park, yet again.

#ai #corporations #corporatocracy #billionaires #climateCrisis #BigTech #SiliconValley

Honest Government Ad | AI

The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative👉 Help us keep Government...

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