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Understanding and Resisting Big Tech

Dozens of articles shedding information on Big Tech, surveillance capitalism and the dark side of online advertising.

Digital Literacy

How to guides about how to use technology more mindfully – and not be used by it.

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Better than social media: how I built a private, independent database to keep in touch with the most important people in my life

Digital sovereignty also means: having full control over how you interact with your friends -…

Elena RossiniDecember 9, 2022

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Our infinite appetite for distractions: yesterday, today and tomorrow

Thought-provoking musings about our tendency to seek out distractions - from intellectuals from the 1930s…

Elena RossiniJuly 22, 2022

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NextDNS: My favorite tool to increase privacy, security and mindfulness online

NextDNS is an easy-to-install firewall that protects you from surveillance capitalism and security threats. It's…

Elena RossiniJune 24, 2022

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Little Miss Wise as a parable for our brave new digital age

How Roger Hargreaves's story could be adapted to our days... but with a twist

Elena RossiniJune 17, 2022

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How to be a realist in an extremely online world

What is a realist? Someone who deeply cherishes life in the real world over life…

Elena RossiniJune 2, 2022

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What happens when everybody lies?

By design social media platforms encourage performative content. But there is another way.

Elena RossiniMay 11, 2022

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The In-Betweeners

Since my childhood, I have been an in-betweener: one foot in the digital world; one…