#datacolonialism — Public Fediverse posts

Data is a new frontier of colonisation. No anthropologist should engage with #LLM |s in their research and their teaching. Those who do, continue a dark chapter of our discipline - and they are not even writing it themselves, but have machines do it for them! #datacolonialism #AI

#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6

#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6

#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6

#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6

#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6

Yesterday colonialism used maps; today algorithms occupy the human body. Technocolonialism transforms flesh into data fields, relentlessly mining attention and desire, subtly steering behavior. The body loses political agency and autonomy, becoming a profitable marketplace.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
#AntiHarari, #Technocolonialism, #Philosophy, #Transhumanism, #Introduction, #BodyTerritory, #DigitalSovereignty, #DataColonialism

Yesterday colonialism used maps; today algorithms occupy the human body. Technocolonialism transforms flesh into data fields, relentlessly mining attention and desire, subtly steering behavior. The body loses political agency and autonomy, becoming a profitable marketplace.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
#AntiHarari, #Technocolonialism, #Philosophy, #Transhumanism, #Introduction, #BodyTerritory, #DigitalSovereignty, #DataColonialism

Yesterday colonialism used maps; today algorithms occupy the human body. Technocolonialism transforms flesh into data fields, relentlessly mining attention and desire, subtly steering behavior. The body loses political agency and autonomy, becoming a profitable marketplace.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
#AntiHarari, #Technocolonialism, #Philosophy, #Transhumanism, #Introduction, #BodyTerritory, #DigitalSovereignty, #DataColonialism

Yesterday colonialism used maps; today algorithms occupy the human body. Technocolonialism transforms flesh into data fields, relentlessly mining attention and desire, subtly steering behavior. The body loses political agency and autonomy, becoming a profitable marketplace.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
#AntiHarari, #Technocolonialism, #Philosophy, #Transhumanism, #Introduction, #BodyTerritory, #DigitalSovereignty, #DataColonialism

Yesterday colonialism used maps; today algorithms occupy the human body. Technocolonialism transforms flesh into data fields, relentlessly mining attention and desire, subtly steering behavior. The body loses political agency and autonomy, becoming a profitable marketplace.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
#AntiHarari, #Technocolonialism, #Philosophy, #Transhumanism, #Introduction, #BodyTerritory, #DigitalSovereignty, #DataColonialism

In the thirteenth century, Aquinas wrote that story; he sanctified the ownership of land and the serf’s body by the lord as “divine order.” In the twenty‑first century, Yuval Noah Harari takes on the same task. Only this time, God gives way to Data, and divine order to the Algorithm.
#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty,

"Colossus Failure": Elon Musk's Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis http://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/memphis_xai_data_center_pollution_keshaun #ToxicElonMusk #AI #DataColonialism #Memphis #RegulateTech #pollution #racism #environment

"Colossus Failure": Elon Musk's Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis http://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/memphis_xai_data_center_pollution_keshaun #ToxicElonMusk #AI #DataColonialism #Memphis #RegulateTech #pollution #racism #environment

"Colossus Failure": Elon Musk's Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis http://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/memphis_xai_data_center_pollution_keshaun #ToxicElonMusk #AI #DataColonialism #Memphis #RegulateTech #pollution #racism #environment

"Colossus Failure": Elon Musk's Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis http://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/memphis_xai_data_center_pollution_keshaun #ToxicElonMusk #AI #DataColonialism #Memphis #RegulateTech #pollution #racism #environment

"Colossus Failure": Elon Musk's Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis http://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/memphis_xai_data_center_pollution_keshaun #ToxicElonMusk #AI #DataColonialism #Memphis #RegulateTech #pollution #racism #environment

"Data Colonialism": Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land http://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers #Indigenous #AI #DataColonialism #DataCenters #colonialism #environment

#FirstNations vs #DataColonialism

#DemocracyNow

#tech #techbillionairesSUCK

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0-fBK0LVQ

'#DataColonialism': Native Communities Fight #AI #DataCenters on #IndigenousLand

#DemocracyNow, April 22, 2026

"The artificial intelligence industry’s #DataCenter boom is the latest chapter in a long history of #EnvironmentalRacism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist #KrystalTwoBulls, the executive director of #HonorTheEarth, an Indigenous-led #EnvironmentalJustice organization that is tracking over 100 proposed data center projects on tribal and rural lands. We speak to Two Bulls about the myriad impacts of what she calls a 'modern-day iteration' of '#SettlerColonialism,' including #NoisePollution, #cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion, #EnergyGrid overload and even '#EcologicalCollapse.' As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, Two Bulls says, 'We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman relatives.' "

Read / listen / watch:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers

#AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #AISucks #AIDataCenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistAI

'#DataColonialism': Native Communities Fight #AI #DataCenters on #IndigenousLand

#DemocracyNow, April 22, 2026

"The artificial intelligence industry’s #DataCenter boom is the latest chapter in a long history of #EnvironmentalRacism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist #KrystalTwoBulls, the executive director of #HonorTheEarth, an Indigenous-led #EnvironmentalJustice organization that is tracking over 100 proposed data center projects on tribal and rural lands. We speak to Two Bulls about the myriad impacts of what she calls a 'modern-day iteration' of '#SettlerColonialism,' including #NoisePollution, #cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion, #EnergyGrid overload and even '#EcologicalCollapse.' As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, Two Bulls says, 'We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman relatives.' "

Read / listen / watch:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers

#AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #AISucks #AIDataCenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistAI

'#DataColonialism': Native Communities Fight #AI #DataCenters on #IndigenousLand

#DemocracyNow, April 22, 2026

"The artificial intelligence industry’s #DataCenter boom is the latest chapter in a long history of #EnvironmentalRacism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist #KrystalTwoBulls, the executive director of #HonorTheEarth, an Indigenous-led #EnvironmentalJustice organization that is tracking over 100 proposed data center projects on tribal and rural lands. We speak to Two Bulls about the myriad impacts of what she calls a 'modern-day iteration' of '#SettlerColonialism,' including #NoisePollution, #cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion, #EnergyGrid overload and even '#EcologicalCollapse.' As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, Two Bulls says, 'We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman relatives.' "

Read / listen / watch:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers

#AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #AISucks #AIDataCenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistAI

'#DataColonialism': Native Communities Fight #AI #DataCenters on #IndigenousLand

#DemocracyNow, April 22, 2026

"The artificial intelligence industry’s #DataCenter boom is the latest chapter in a long history of #EnvironmentalRacism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist #KrystalTwoBulls, the executive director of #HonorTheEarth, an Indigenous-led #EnvironmentalJustice organization that is tracking over 100 proposed data center projects on tribal and rural lands. We speak to Two Bulls about the myriad impacts of what she calls a 'modern-day iteration' of '#SettlerColonialism,' including #NoisePollution, #cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion, #EnergyGrid overload and even '#EcologicalCollapse.' As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, Two Bulls says, 'We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman relatives.' "

Read / listen / watch:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers

#AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #AISucks #AIDataCenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistAI

'#DataColonialism': Native Communities Fight #AI #DataCenters on #IndigenousLand

#DemocracyNow, April 22, 2026

"The artificial intelligence industry’s #DataCenter boom is the latest chapter in a long history of #EnvironmentalRacism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist #KrystalTwoBulls, the executive director of #HonorTheEarth, an Indigenous-led #EnvironmentalJustice organization that is tracking over 100 proposed data center projects on tribal and rural lands. We speak to Two Bulls about the myriad impacts of what she calls a 'modern-day iteration' of '#SettlerColonialism,' including #NoisePollution, #cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion, #EnergyGrid overload and even '#EcologicalCollapse.' As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, Two Bulls says, 'We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman relatives.' "

Read / listen / watch:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/krystal_twobulls_indigenous_lands_data_centers

#AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #AISucks #AIDataCenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistAI

OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by @ggioli and @GioBettini:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251409982

#ClimateAdaptation
#PoliticalEcology
#ClimateJustice
#DataColonialism
#DigitalGeographies
#ClimateServices
#SmartAdaptation

OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by @ggioli and @GioBettini:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251409982

#ClimateAdaptation
#PoliticalEcology
#ClimateJustice
#DataColonialism
#DigitalGeographies
#ClimateServices
#SmartAdaptation

OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by @ggioli and @GioBettini:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251409982

#ClimateAdaptation
#PoliticalEcology
#ClimateJustice
#DataColonialism
#DigitalGeographies
#ClimateServices
#SmartAdaptation

OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by @ggioli and @GioBettini:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251409982

#ClimateAdaptation
#PoliticalEcology
#ClimateJustice
#DataColonialism
#DigitalGeographies
#ClimateServices
#SmartAdaptation

OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by @ggioli and @GioBettini:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251409982

#ClimateAdaptation
#PoliticalEcology
#ClimateJustice
#DataColonialism
#DigitalGeographies
#ClimateServices
#SmartAdaptation

SaaS - Spying as a Service

#Meta acquires #Limitless, which makes a wearable “pendant” that clips to clothing or a lanyard. The device records conversations, and can generate transcripts and produce searchable summaries through a companion app.

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-acquires-ai-wearables-startup-limitless-2025-12-05/

#AI #datacolonialism #datagrab

"This process of extracting and exploiting our data, generated by everyday interactions with services mostly provided by US #bigtech companies , has been called #datacolonialism. In #Brazil, the numbers are significant: approximately 134 million active #Instagram users, 160 million on #WhatsApp , and 140 million daily messages sent via #ChatGPT—we are the 3rd country that uses this tool the most in the world in 2025, according to OpenAI data."

https://baixacultura.org/2025/11/07/colonialismo-digital-a-nova-fronteira-da-dependencia-latino-americana/

If you are in the UK and fancy a day or two in the countryside, I will be speaking on #datacolonialism at the ALSO festival at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, on Saturday July 12 morning. Details here: https://www.also-festival.com/entities/also-festival/content/also-ideas

In her new book, Empire of AI, Karen Hao insists that AI companies don’t have to choose between exploiting workers and chasing growth.

https://restofworld.org/2025/karen-hao-empire-of-ai-book/

#ai #KarenHao #DataColonialism

📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

This podcast is not easy, and it is relatively long, but it digs deeply in the question of #datacolonialism #data #colonialism #bigtech #capitalism

https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/colonialism-with-ulises-a-mejias-and-nick-couldry

It makes the link between how we as a society have to function (communicate, work, play, ...) by the rules and the terms of the big tech corporations. Without any form of control from our side, this is a form of "colonialism", they argue, especially since our use of their platforms generates them money and influence.

I'm looking for accessible resources such as podcasts, short articles, interviews, visuals, infographics, memes, ... to help me convince my friends to leave #meta #whatsapp #facebook #instagram etc. because of the issues around #contentmoderation #datacolonialism #ecology #sustainability #privacy #transrights #lgbtq #lgbtqia #safety etc. and to migrate to #signal #mastodon #pixelfed

What about things like:
- Tech won't save us
- The data fix
- 404 media
- ...

Thanks!

"If you're wanting to take something from someone you have no social relations with, there are only two options; brutal violence, and, lying, and [colonisers] use both."

#NickCouldry, 2024, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back

https://techwontsave.us/episode/246_the_threat_of_data_colonialism_w_ulises_a_mejias__nick_couldry

#podcasts #TheNation #TechWontSaveUs #ParisMarx #Colonialism #DataColonialism #DataGrab

"If you're wanting to take something from someone you have no social relations with, there are only two options; brutal violence, and, lying, and [colonisers] use both."

#NickCouldry, 2024, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back

https://techwontsave.us/episode/246_the_threat_of_data_colonialism_w_ulises_a_mejias__nick_couldry

#podcasts #TheNation #TechWontSaveUs #ParisMarx #Colonialism #DataColonialism #DataGrab

"If you're wanting to take something from someone you have no social relations with, there are only two options; brutal violence, and, lying, and [colonisers] use both."

#NickCouldry, 2024, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back

https://techwontsave.us/episode/246_the_threat_of_data_colonialism_w_ulises_a_mejias__nick_couldry

#podcasts #TheNation #TechWontSaveUs #ParisMarx #Colonialism #DataColonialism #DataGrab

"If you're wanting to take something from someone you have no social relations with, there are only two options; brutal violence, and, lying, and [colonisers] use both."

#NickCouldry, 2024, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back

https://techwontsave.us/episode/246_the_threat_of_data_colonialism_w_ulises_a_mejias__nick_couldry

#podcasts #TheNation #TechWontSaveUs #ParisMarx #Colonialism #DataColonialism #DataGrab

Can #AI help #Africa (#GlobalSouth) close the development gap?

#DigitalJustice #AI4SI #DataDivide #Poverty #DataColonialism via @ft

https://www.ft.com/content/bdab80fe-e800-4c1c-926d-a6faa750cd57

Can #AI help #Africa (#GlobalSouth) close the development gap?

#DigitalJustice #AI4SI #DataDivide #Poverty #DataColonialism via @ft

https://www.ft.com/content/bdab80fe-e800-4c1c-926d-a6faa750cd57

Can #AI help #Africa (#GlobalSouth) close the development gap?

#DigitalJustice #AI4SI #DataDivide #Poverty #DataColonialism via @ft

https://www.ft.com/content/bdab80fe-e800-4c1c-926d-a6faa750cd57

Can #AI help #Africa (#GlobalSouth) close the development gap?

#DigitalJustice #AI4SI #DataDivide #Poverty #DataColonialism via @ft

https://www.ft.com/content/bdab80fe-e800-4c1c-926d-a6faa750cd57

Can #AI help #Africa (#GlobalSouth) close the development gap?

#DigitalJustice #AI4SI #DataDivide #Poverty #DataColonialism via @ft

https://www.ft.com/content/bdab80fe-e800-4c1c-926d-a6faa750cd57

'behind the sleek facade of our digital world lies a hidden workforce that bears immense emotional burdens, so we don’t have to. Their experiences raise urgent questions about the ethical implications of data work and the human cost of maintaining our digital infrastructure.'

https://www.noemamag.com/the-human-cost-of-our-ai-driven-future/

Longread, do take your time!

#AI #Datawork #Datacolonialism
#Longread