“The Machine,” they exclaimed, “feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our being. The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.” - E.M. Forster (1909)
As of September 2026, most webpage traffic is no longer human: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human.
Information is power. This is why privacy is inconvinient, and why technology is political. You do not know what knows you. Ownership is inconvinient, because ownership is private. If the system needs data, then public data needs anonymity and open sourcing, and personal data needs privacy and self-ownership.
Here's some links to check out if you haven't already:
• https://fosshub.com/
• https://librewolf.net/
• https://ublockorigin.com/
• https://duckduckgo.com/
• https://reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/
• https://librarygenesis.net/
• https://sci-hub.in/
• https://si.edu/openaccess/
• https://spicetify.app/
• https://github.com/mrpond/BlockTheSpot
• https://stremio.com/
• https://jellyfin.org/
