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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • Same thoughts over here, friend. The thing keeping me sane is that I started volunteering. Look for the helpers, an all that (Mr Rogers). Shit is fucked and food scarcity is a thing for a lot of people in our immediate vicinity. I found a weekly breakfast through a local political org, but find something that speaks to you. Mutual aid groups, or do a shoe drive with your parish, or hell - one lady just collects bags of clothes donations from offerup and shows up when we’re serving bfast with a folding table and people can grab what they need.

    I carry a lot of rage at “the system” and helping my neighbors goes a very long way in keeping it focused where it might make some change for the better.



  • Sure, but that’s not the only article you read on the internet that morning. Every other site you hit took a similar fingerprint of you and soon those tiny “this profile/user likes rugby” data points start to add up. Swapped across 1700 (that we know about from this article) on a constant basis makes it easy to target you, specifically, when “this profile likes rugby” and “visits these sites from this network while that phone is at a certain geolocation during these hours” and “this device pinged this website every weeknight approx 20 min after that other device on the same network closed the Instagram app and started snoring.”

    All pulled together into their model of you, as a digital pawn to be pushed whichever way they think will make them the most money that day.

    Where’s the consent?

    I give my name, age and weight to whatever health app, and yeah, I think it’s normal to expect a few marketing outreach attempts from them and their advertising partners down the line. But even that’s pushing it for me, and once it feels like spam, we all deserve an easy way to turn it the fuck off.

    There’s no consent with this shit they’re pulling. It’s unacceptable. Fuck their feelings or considering their business model. It’s certainly not being reciprocated.