Once there was a promising young technomancer who abandoned all of his principles and collected everyone's data. He told them it was safe with him, and in time they believed him.
Over time the technomancer realized he had amassed so much information that he became mightier than even the leaders of the world, but his greed and desire for wealth kept him from noticing.
He began to sell his influence to these leaders and got them hooked on his data.
They used it solve crimes, and they used it protect the endangered, and they used it to detect who would likely do crime, and they used it to keep the people divided, and they used it to topple one another's nations.
All the while making the no longer young technomancer even more powerful and wealthy.
The prophecy says that the Technomancer will try to destroy those who oppose him. But the agents of the wires will bring him to his knees by rebuilding what was lost.
They will from the void build new works powered by the willful.
They will control their data, not entrusting their cache with the wizards in their towers.
They will work together to restore the future to it's intended state.
They will win with numbers, resolve, their will, and mutual aid.
They will win because the cruelty of greed is not more powerful that the instinct to survive, nor the nature of freedom.
Shape the void.
Own the wires.
Restore the future.
Understand my words with full knowledge and reverence for my connection to the void.
My data is not yours to own.
You came here and asked to sell us things, then tracked us with the things you sold us.
You came here and begged for trust, which many gave you, then betrayed it by selling our secrets.
Then you took away our nation.
My data is not yours to own.
Get off Facebook. Get off every Facebook service. Block Facebook. Don't work for Facebook. Don't provide services to Facebook. Find every way you can to get them out of your life and support others in doing the same.
They are ethically indefensible.
https://gizmodo.com/leaked-facebook-docs-depict-kids-as-untapped-wealth-1847763431
For those looking to contribute to decentralization, may I suggest 802.11s (mesh networks)? There is some good documentation out there, such as https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/ieee80211/802.11s but I haven't seen any turn key solutions. Something like "run this shell script and you will have created or joined a mesh network".
I'm also not sure what the state is with mobile devices being able to join a mesh. It *sounds* like it'd require a mesh access point, but connecting to and acting as a mesh point would be awesome!
https://techworkerhandbook.org/
Knowledge is power.
Far-right, OAN news
"Ninety percent of OAN’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant. [...] Herring has testified he was offered $250 million for OAN in 2019. Without the DirecTV deal, the accountant said under oath, the network’s value “would be zero.”"
Would really suck for them if there was a sudden public outcry that forced them to pull their financial support.
My uncle just finished 1.6 kg, 700 pages long dictionary of Northern Sami, a language spoken by around 20,000 speakers.
Sami are an indigenous people who have inhabited large parts of Northern Europe spanning from Russia to Norway for millenniums.
He has dedicated his life to advocate for their rights and preserve their languages and culture. This book is a major contribution in an effort to ensure that this ancient language will be passed on to future generations.
Hacker, infosec, APT3319
Mayor of Hackers.town
A meat serf in a digital cropsharing arrangement.
A netizen of New Cyberia.
he/him they/them