Thomas Renzy
@thomasrenzy.bsky.social
Delivery Architect for Cisco focusing on Data Centers and Automation. Constantly reading about and fascinated by tech. The good and the bad.
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" - Isaac Asimov
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" - Isaac Asimov
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Reposted by Thomas Renzy
Reposted by Thomas Renzy
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
www.eff.org
January 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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🛍️🎄 Relive the magic of holiday shopping with the “Attention Kmart Shoppers” collection at Internet Archive! Smooth tunes, vintage announcements & festive classics await. Wrap your holiday spirit in pure nostalgia ➡️ archive.org/details/Kmar... #Preservation #VanishingCulture
December 20, 2024 at 9:37 PM
🛍️🎄 Relive the magic of holiday shopping with the “Attention Kmart Shoppers” collection at Internet Archive! Smooth tunes, vintage announcements & festive classics await. Wrap your holiday spirit in pure nostalgia ➡️ archive.org/details/Kmar... #Preservation #VanishingCulture
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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Always look forward to Ed’s posts. Especially the things he’s written recently around AI.
Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model.
The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
Godot Isn't Making it
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title.
What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new ...
wheresyoured.at
December 3, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Always look forward to Ed’s posts. Especially the things he’s written recently around AI.
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Social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and made America stupid, Jonathan Haidt argued in 2022. It’s not just a phase. theatln.tc/XH7Zf8OQ
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
theatln.tc
November 27, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and made America stupid, Jonathan Haidt argued in 2022. It’s not just a phase. theatln.tc/XH7Zf8OQ
I guess all you can do is laugh when supposedly serious journalists and opinion columnist write this. You’re right @nytpitchbot.bsky.social you can’t compete with this. But it sure makes for good comedy I guess.
November 27, 2024 at 6:59 PM
I guess all you can do is laugh when supposedly serious journalists and opinion columnist write this. You’re right @nytpitchbot.bsky.social you can’t compete with this. But it sure makes for good comedy I guess.
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Hey tech wizards and nerds 🧙♂️ this holiday season, we've got a resource you can share to help answer tech questions your family and friends might be asking you around the dinner table.
Welcome to Digital Rights Bytes
Digital Rights Bytes
digitalrightsbytes.org
November 27, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Hey tech wizards and nerds 🧙♂️ this holiday season, we've got a resource you can share to help answer tech questions your family and friends might be asking you around the dinner table.
The idea that libraries are no longer relevant is absurd. Probably explains about a lot of things currently going on.
People should read MORE.
People should read MORE.
November 27, 2024 at 4:21 AM
The idea that libraries are no longer relevant is absurd. Probably explains about a lot of things currently going on.
People should read MORE.
People should read MORE.
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If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
November 27, 2024 at 3:04 AM
If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Great post from the CEO.
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
November 20, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Great post from the CEO.
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6. Custom feeds on Bluesky are the first implementation of algorithmic choice. Instead of using a single black-box For You algorithm, you can create and subscribe to your own.
Now, there are over 50k+ custom feeds on the network! Check them out:
bsky.app/feeds
Now, there are over 50k+ custom feeds on the network! Check them out:
bsky.app/feeds
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
6. Custom feeds on Bluesky are the first implementation of algorithmic choice. Instead of using a single black-box For You algorithm, you can create and subscribe to your own.
Now, there are over 50k+ custom feeds on the network! Check them out:
bsky.app/feeds
Now, there are over 50k+ custom feeds on the network! Check them out:
bsky.app/feeds
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5. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯
Also, we're hiring!
bsky.social/about/join
Also, we're hiring!
bsky.social/about/join
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
5. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯
Also, we're hiring!
bsky.social/about/join
Also, we're hiring!
bsky.social/about/join
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We often hear the question, "Is my phone listening to me?" The reason you might think this is a bit complicated, but we break it down with a short video on Digital Rights Bytes:
Is My Phone Listening To Me?
Is My Phone Listening To Me?
www.digitalrightsbytes.org
November 7, 2024 at 9:46 PM
We often hear the question, "Is my phone listening to me?" The reason you might think this is a bit complicated, but we break it down with a short video on Digital Rights Bytes: