#tech oligarchs

[ratantics]

Most plausible theory I've heard so far that explains why everything is completely fucked.

[sieveofjuniper]

Get Off Apps, Take Back The World.

Yall have got to get more comfortable going outside of ur norm. We are not inept in the face of tech oligarchy.

A website requires ur ID? Dawg, do not use that website. Don't use it. 'But every social media where I live requires that and thats the only way I connect with people,' babe ur gonna learn to talk to ppl irl or ur gonna learn about some digital back doors, I promise it is worth it. I promise it is not that hard or scary.

Ur grocery store is trying to implement digital dynamic targeted pricing? Brother do not use the app, don't scan shit. As far as they're concerned u don't have a phone. Bring everything that looks good up to a register with a human being and have them tell you the prices. Leave anything you don't wanna pay for there. Pay with cash.

Ur apps are tracking and/or censoring what u say or consume? They're showing you more ads than humans' posts? I've got it, I've got it... don't use them. Literally why are you continuing to use them. The scariest part of this shit is that y'all really believe you have to engage with it. Why is anybody on tiktok or instagram anymore? Yall cannot breathe without censoring urselves. I could not physically hold my breath for the amount of time it takes to scroll past ads between real human posts on insta-- and that's not even specifically people I know. why are yall giving your time and brains to this?

These things are not hard, they just require you to stop thinking via ur phone. Hell, you don't even have to get fully offline to get the fuck off of apps. They're hurting us. We've lived in an analogue world for much longer than a digital one. You've probably lived without any of these things before. I'm so sick of the "we can't do anything to stop the tech monstrosities" rhetoric... you literally can disengage. That is doing something. It's barely even truly inconvenient for most people. Literally just disengage.

[If yall leverage disabled & rural ppl whom u only care abt when it's convenient for u rn, I will scream. I am the disabled & rural ppl. I am the disabled rural person & I'm telling u to disengage.]

[as-long-as-there-is-thinking]

Was wondering what Luca was up to during the CMBYN Big Screen Relaunch. He's been quite busy, to say the least.

🤞🏽Mr Guadagnino

1. Background

2. Why drop it then? Indiewire is more direct:

[tomorrowusa]

To paraphrase what they say in the pest control business: There's never just ONE multi-billionaire.

We may not be able to get rid of them, but we can certainly vote their MAGA pawns out of office.

Midterm Election Day is 148 days from today. To do nothing to defeat Capitol Hill Republicans is the same as entrenching the status quo.

[agnosthetic]

Told a co-worker the other day that one of my new years resolutions was no more Amazon (i haven't had a membership since 2023 and only used it 5-6 times in 2025, so honestly not a huge sacrifice).

her big argument (and honestly the argument I hear the most when i bring his up) was "well some things you just can't get at brick and mortor stores anymore."

Has Amazon and social media made us all collectively forget about the rest of the internet existing? Because not only can i find anything I need in the broader consumer internet world, but i often find the exact thing I'm looking for more quickly and from a higher quality/more reliable seller than Amazon dot com without having a bunch of worthless garbage shoved down my throat.

[yonahsienna]

Help I accidentally became daunted by the enormity of the world's grief, now what? 🥺

[folksonomy]

Joanna Maciejewska: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." Cartoon by Tjeerd Royaards. (pub. 18 February 2026)

[redarmyscreaming]

Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter drama is finally headed to trial—but first came the harder task: finding jurors who don’t loathe the world’s richest man.