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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.

Coronavirus Shock Doctrine | THE REALISTS

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Coronavirus & the Normalization of Mass Surveillance

While people are feeling anxious and insecure over Coronavirus, governments around the world are exploiting…

Elena RossiniMarch 31, 2020

Outer Space

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What Coronavirus can teach us about life

Italian psychologist Francesca Morelli shares some observations about the life lessons we can learn from…

Elena RossiniMarch 18, 2020

Unintentional Digital Minimalism The Realists

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One month of (unintentional) Digital Minimalism

Moving to a new apartment has forced me to be on a low-tech / digital…

Elena RossiniFebruary 19, 2020

Smart TVs The Realists

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Are you watching TV… or is the TV watching you?

We've entered a brave new world of "Smart TVs": virtually all television sets now record,…

Elena RossiniFebruary 4, 2020

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Quitting Whatsapp & Pulling Back the Curtain on Facebook’s Grand Illusion

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life…

Elena RossiniJanuary 29, 2020

The Realists | Quit Facebook

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My attempts to escape Facebook Inc.’s data mining: leaving Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

Let’s play a game. It’s 2008. You have a brand new smartphone that is making…

Elena RossiniJanuary 15, 2020

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"Melinda Gates's children don't have smartphones and only use a computer in the kitchen. Her…

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The app that gave me negative body image

Yesterday I came across an online video that made my jaw drop. A young woman,…

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The Real Reason Why Instagram Is Hiding “Like” Counts

I believe the real reason has to do with surveillance capitalism: extracting more precious user…