Finished reading: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff 📚 Because, ya know, I needed to reaffirm the horror of it all. 🤓 I have way more thoughts than I feel like writing down. And since very few of them are nice or happy anyway, I’ll skip most of them for now. Zuboff is ardent (and absolutely correct) about the disorienting world that the surveillance capitalists — from Google on down the line — are creating more-or-less unimpeded, but she leaves you with a bit of an anxious disorientation, too. Democracy, individuality, personal freedom, community, even resistance — although thes... tinyroofnail.micro.blog

@tinyroofnail I've wanted to read this but have been intimidated by its size. Maybe you'll push me over the edge! I've wondered about framing capitalism as the culprit when China stands out as such an example of an emerging surveillance society. But I'm showing that I haven't read the book, right?

@tinyroofnail I love the new maxim!

@JohnBrady Well, we can't do anything directly about Chinese surveillance, but we can "Be the friction you hope to see in the world."