things that are slowly ceasing to exist: coffee chocolate hardware

i thought the US wanted tiktok to control its feed algorithm, turns out it wants the profiling machine makes me think what instagram is handling/negotiating given the current state of machine learning, this kind of data can be inferred from content or even interactions like likes and comments

"I temporarily disabled the ‘data consent’ option [...] At that moment, all of my chats were permanently deleted and the project folders were emptied — two years of carefully structured academic work disappeared" imagine treating a chatbot as a cloud storage/office suite

sometimes i wish tiktok and youtube videos were transcribed, illustrated with beautiful images and photos, curated by humans, laid out in approx. 64 pages at 21 × 27.5 cm, printed in color on 80 g/m² matte coated paper, saddle-stitched, and sold in shops specialized in this format on the streets

the invasion of venezuela is connected to the US attack on brazilian Pix. the agenda is to control trade that’s why using other currencies besides the dollar in international trade is offensive (e.g. venezuela selling oil in chinese yuan) just like being independent from the US card-payment system