Tag: advertising

Librem AweSIM

~ cafebedouin

"Major cellular providers are creating unified customer identifiers based on customer account information (name, address, billing information) and unique identifiers on your mobile devices so they can 'identify users across multiple devices and serve them relevant advertising'. Librem AweSIM adds an extra layer of privacy to your customer data to protect you from targeted tracking. … Continue reading Librem AweSIM

Standardized Thought

~ cafebedouin

"From this [advertising] expert he learned that the key tool of the ad trade was to “standard[ize] thought by supplying the spectator with a ready-made visual image before he has time to conjure up an interpretation of his own.3 In that instant before the process of making sense was completed, a presupplied image and, subsequently, … Continue reading Standardized Thought

The Inbox: A Scattered, Ad-Ridden Archive of Our Lives

~ cafebedouin

"To examine our inboxes is to examine our lives: our desires and dreams, our families and careers, our status, our networks and our social groupings, our projects, our commerce, our politics, our secrets/lies/fetishes. Inboxes are anthropological goldmines, textual archives, psychological case studies, waiting to be plumbed and probed for the expansive cultural, ethical, epistemological, and … Continue reading The Inbox: A Scattered, Ad-Ridden Archive of Our Lives

Protecting Your Online Privacy is Tough—But Here’s a Start

~ cafebedouin

"Algorithms make decisions based on statistical correlations. If you happen to not be a typical individual, showing unusual characteristics, there is a chance that an algorithm will misinterpret your behavior. It may make a mistake regarding your employment, your loan, or your right to cross the border. As long as those statistical correlations remain true, … Continue reading Protecting Your Online Privacy is Tough—But Here’s a Start

Cosmic Dyspepsia & Divine Excrement by Thomas Moyihan

~ cafebedouin

"One pauses, and is suddenly struck with a vision: The Earth opens up and seeps fizzy pop. The carbonated fountains of the great deep break open. End-oriented teleoplexic history reveals that the world was created merely to spew forth Pepsi: everything else was merely a means to this end. They call it the 𝖕𝖊𝖕𝖘𝖎𝖈𝖑𝖎𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖗. Pepsi, … Continue reading Cosmic Dyspepsia & Divine Excrement by Thomas Moyihan