fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.
the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.
YES
i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word.
above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that
This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data
Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.
Ooh I know this one!
Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money
TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)
WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it
Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me
Spoilers for the program on Netflix below. I highly recommend it! To say the discoveries are groundbreaking is a vast understatement. I’m usually one of those people who’d rather read an article than watch the program. Not this time.
Isn’t it sublime that I, as Homo Sapiens Sapiens, have the capacity to look at Homo Naledi, see that they had fire and tools and have the phrase “those were just guys hanging out” run through my head? That an individual literal millions of years after this species died out can recognize a spark of humanity, *personhood*, from a creature with a brain the size of a chimpanzees? Not sure if I sound crazy here but I’m feeling intensely spiritual right now.
The inherent connection of personhood spans hundreds of thousands of years* (not millions) and i just think that is so SO cool.
Despite the fact that we look different, we still share so many similarities with our ancient ancestors, and if we went back in time to find them, they would look at us and see the same thing. People. Friends. Family.
fixating on games is like “oh boy! i haven’t played this in months!” and then you end up playing 60+ hours and never touch it again until the cycle starts up again
I’m gonna make a post with all of the ‘stick figure violence’ adjacent images I have. if anyone knows any similar ones I’m missing PLEASE SEND ME THEM. I have an unhealthy obsession with them.
oh yeah here’s one I made a while back
@b0nkcreat
I will be adding more in the next reblog
More incoming :)
I’m not done yet
There might be still more (also i may upload some “cleaner versions” of other stuff)
And that’s it! You can reblog now :) I may also have semi-related stuff but that’s all the pseudo-ragecomic reaction images i have
