Tag: Big Tech

Algorithms and Egregores

The data-driven economy of Big Tech is a demon UFO cloud that does not rain but abducts.

Under the Cloud: Techno-Feudalism

In Under the Cloud, Yannis Varoufakis argues that the global economy is post-capitalist because it relies on rent extraction.

Twitter Files: The COVID-19 Misinformation Gulag

It would appear our entire COVID-19 narrative was controlled from the shadows through an insidious anti-misinformation body, which knowingly censored true content to promote its agenda.

Do We Really Want to Wonder?

Mystery frightens us. Big Data offers to explain it away, thereby giving us reliable tools with which to control our lives. It is no great discovery to point out that such tools sometimes fail. Christopher Beha has done something more significant: he has asked why we want them to succeed.