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Call data centres what they really are: data farms.

It’s where they farm you for your data.

You are the livestock being farmed.

#PeopleFarming #BigTech #SiliconValley #capitalism #dataFarms

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2026-04-15 09:00:26

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✊️ Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts

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#ai #datacenter #uspol


#capitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #peoplefarming #datafarms
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Tzimisce Flesh
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"Farms" sounds a little too friendly. How about "data harvesters"? Or "data leeches"?
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Aral Balkan
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@flesh Well, I call them factory farms for human beings, which is a little less friendly.
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I was thinking something similar w.r.t. internet gambling. You know how the meat packing industry in late 19th C used to be so proud of figuring out how to use "everything but the squeal" from the slaughtered animals? Well internet betting has figured out how to use the squeal, too.

("half of men ages 18-49 (52%) [say] they have an active account with an online sportsbook")

sri.siena.edu/2026/04/13/more-…

More Than a Quarter of Americans, 27% Have An Active Online Sports Betting Account; A Third Have Opened an Account At Least Once – Siena Research Institute

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