"Multilevel marketing needs social media in order to recruit, and TikTok just banned it."

"They seem mindless of the fact that all too often, mindfulness has been reduced to a commodified and instrumental self-help technique that unwittingly reinforces neoliberal imperatives."

“Harry Brignull, a user-experience consultant, has created a website listing 11 dark pattern types to watch out for. A “roach motel” is when the design makes it simple to sign up but hard to cancel (for example, a subscription); “disguised _...Read More_

Compelled to get behind Pi-hole, which acts as a "network-wide protection instead of browser plugins or other software on each computer, install Pi-hole in one place and your entire network is protected. Block in-app advertisements _...Read More_

“Bipartisanship may be in short supply in the 116th Congress, but Republicans and Democrats have found a common enemy. Swamped by complaints from peeved constituents — and tormented themselves by an onslaught of pesky and fraudulent calls — _...Read More_

Inside the neon mystery box that is the Falun Gong’s Shen Yun dance troupe/cult...

"Surveillance capitalism was invented by Google more than a decade ago when it discovered that the “data exhaust” clogging its servers could be combined with analytics to produce predictions of user behavior. At that time, the key action of _...Read More_