When did computing become rental property?

Digital Landlords maps how five companies turned tools into jurisdictions and users into tenants.
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#tech #digitalrights #ethics #righttorepair #ai #software

You do not own what you buy.
You rent it from servers that forget you, that delete what you bought.

That is Intellectual Cannibalism, a system that measures decay as success.

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#DigitalCulture #AIEthics #TechPolicy #Ownership

Every tech choice feels compromised.
Search, shop, update: all built for extraction, not trust.
That lingering disappointment has now a name: e-Morose.
When you see the pattern and can’t unsee it.
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#enshittification #RightToRepair #DigitalRights #Privacy #Tech

Meta is asking to for every photo on your phone.

Protect yourself:
• Delete the Facebook and Instagram apps.
• Revoke photo access for all Meta apps.
• In WhatsApp, choose “selected photos only.”
• Use Meta’s “AI training objection form.”

#socialmedia #meta #facebook #whatsapp #privacy #rights

Workplace AI feels like adding a new team member who never sleeps and sometimes hallucinates.

My latest post: what actually happens after the rollout and how to keep your sanity.

#AI #ethics #governance #digitalwork #workplace

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What if I told you wrestling is real?
The punches are fake. The manipulation is not.
McMahon’s heel logic runs through politics, AI, and the feeds we cannot stop scrolling.
New essay → The World According to Vince McMahon
#AI #politics #media #culture #spectacle

“Agentic AI” sounds deep but means automation posing as intention.
If it copies judgment without responsibility, agentic is wrong.
A better word is replicant.

New post → medium.com/@Diogo_Mende...

#AI #ethics #language #writing #law #imitation #agenticai #replicantAI #artificialintelligence

Forget the talk about AI bubbles and market cycles.
When the novelty fades, what we will regret most is how little we cared for one another.

I ask what AI truly reveals about us.
#AI#artificialintelligence#ethics #business#rights#socialmedia#economy#writing #society
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Everyone’s on stage. The binders are crisp. The slogans are safe.
Outside, the people are on fire.

Everyone Here Is Performing: a Gonzo piece about AI ethics embalmed in PDF.
#Gonzo #writing #humor #critique #AI #funny #journalism #ethics

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Meta’s AI dating assistant looks like convenience, but it shifts authority over who we meet and how we speak. Intimacy turns into engagement flow. What disappears is serendipity.
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#AI #ethics #dating #meta #facebook #serendipity #love

This is the gonzo side of my writing. Medium is where I stay precise. Here I go feral.

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#AI #ethics #gonzo #writing #critique

I am Diogo Mendes. I write about AI ethics and system design, focusing on how small choices turn into structural risks.

You can read my writing here:
medium.com/@Diogo_Mendes

#AI #ethics #systemsthinking #future #critique #writing #blog #design #responsibleAI #structuralrisk