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#hi besties :)

pmamtraveller

By Yeonju Choi

yesornopolls

Do you live in a place that gets a lot of tourists?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 30

#previously yes boston and cambridge had tons of tourists esp my neighborhoods #currently no UNDESERVEDLY baltimore deserves sm more tourists coming to see her glory this is the best city on earth i love being from here #and working here and helping people make her more beautiful and brilliant ❤️

sexchangedotcom

my beautiful baby who i'm naming untitled document

sexchangedotcom

i can't seem to find my baby

frankiecorleone

Your Childhood - ENDING EXPLAINED (+Easter Eggs You Missed!)

#need to corn plate my childhood slash gen

plumslices

goingtolesbos

no one hates you everyone hates texting and their phone

#genuinely which is why i never reply to anyone ab anything. but i will say i do hate some of the ppl im ignoring

ourobores

winter in grandma moses’ paintings

sioltach

everydaylouie

captive audience

apocryphics

yeah

skatinginfinitelywithyourmom

how to get up in the morning tutorial

skatinginfinitelywithyourmom

how to get up in the morning walkthrough

skatinginfinitelywithyourmom

how to get up in the morning tips and tricks

tsscat

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

tsscat

Purposefully included some older articles here so people can see how baked in this is:

Labor Conditions of Content Moderators (2021)

Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop" (1999)

Digital Labor and Imperialism (2016)

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop (2012)

Gig Economy, Algorithmic Control, and Migrant Labor (2022)

The Rise of Cyber-Coolies (2003)

Ecological Impact of Computation and the Cloud (2022)

The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Content Consumption (2024)

Carbon Footprint of the Internet (2010)

I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years.

tsscat

Listen, you can take away anything you want from this but just as a suggestion given a lot of responses I’ve seen here.

Conclusions from this which are not very productive: the Internet overall is bad and we should destroy it.

Conclusions that are perhaps more productive: Currently the Internet, which many lives depend on, takes up a lot of resources, has a climate impact, and runs on exploited labor. We need to find out how we can avoid this (it’s certainly possible), and work together to achieve this.