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Understanding and Resisting Big Tech

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Digital Literacy

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

The Realists The Memory Police and friendships

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The Memory Police & How Social Media Changed Friendships

The Memory Police, a haunting novel by Yoko Ogawa, made me reflect about how technology…

Elena RossiniDecember 17, 2019

Web Summit Kaiser Facebook Data Privacy Taken

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Did you have a Facebook account before April 2015? Then you must read this

If your Facebook account was set up before April 2015, your personal data might have…

Elena RossiniDecember 10, 2019

Habits Digital Minimalism - THE REALISTS

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3 key habits to become a successful digital minimalist

The first few weeks of a digital detox / minimalism overhaul are incredibly hard. Here…

Elena RossiniNovember 28, 2019

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How do I resist “Time Thieves”? Through FRICTION

In praise of friction. Friction is the best defense against Big Tech's assault on our…

Elena RossiniNovember 19, 2019

Kumi Naidoo at Web Summit 2019 Amnesty International THE REALISTS

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Amnesty International’s Kumi Naidoo: “Data is power and the asymmetrical nature of that power is terrifying”

Amnesty International's director Kumi Naidoo spoke at Web Summit 2019 about the "surveillance industrial complex"…

Elena RossiniNovember 18, 2019

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The dark side of AI: writers Jia Tolentino and Ocean Vuong on how algorithms are killing serendipity

We're in the golden age of algorithmic recommendations, of artificial intelligence dictating which books and…

Elena RossiniNovember 13, 2019

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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…