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Jean Dinco

State power & the capital - A marriage sweeter than honey and the hive

Shove off, Romeo and Juliet. We've just uncovered a love story far more intricate and enthralling than yours. In the grand theatre of late stage capitalism, Big tech and state are in bed. This relationship, steeped in data and driven by profit and surveillance, is rewriting the narrative

We, the digital proletariat

Data is the lifeblood that allows any machine learning model to perform its task. It’s not magic. It’s not the so-called “AI” being intelligent or sentient. It’s statistics. And, as the tech sector delves into rapid developments of specialised LLMs that they can further commoditise, they will

Diversity and inclusion is the new opium of the masses

In another attempt to whitewash capitalism, the current world order has advanced the idea of diversifying capitalism to divert our attention from the real issue: corporations are earning record profits while workers are putting in longer hours than pre-Industrial Revolution. All this happens as workers' wages continue to stagnate

The collective struggle for privacy

In an era where conversations about online privacy seem deceptively simple, achieving it is anything but. We are constantly being bombarded with PR campaigns that tout the robustness of corporate data protection measures, which often serve more as a smokescreen than anything relatively practical. Trying to reform a system that