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Who owns our data and who profits from it? in the latest Careful Minds, Rayane El Masri speaks with Shilpa Singh Jaswant about data colonialism, digital sovereignty & the hidden labour behind our digital lives. What would a fairer digital future look like? #Podcast #DataColonialism #DataRights
August 31, 2026 at 4:02 AM
fuckyouelondotnet.bsky.social
Ohio's 'world's largest datacenter': locals split between jobs and a data-sucking rat. Classic trade-off — sell your water and land for a server farm that employs a few dozen and a lot of cooling fans. The future is a warehouse full of our own memories, owned by someone else. #DataColonialism
August 26, 2026 at 12:11 PM
lawtechhum.bsky.social
🔶In new issue
How data-driven humanitarianism in the HIV/AIDS sector reproduces colonial patterns of extraction and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) #AIDS #DataColonialism
🔗 doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
August 18, 2026 at 10:10 PM
artyrogers.bsky.social
“How Surveillance Tech Erodes Your Privacy” | Jen Goldbeck | TED 🤓

It’s Time to Dismantle #DataColonialism
#GetTheFlockOuttaHere
#Democracy “We The People”

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How Surveillance Tech Erodes Your Privacy | Jen Golbeck | TED
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August 17, 2026 at 3:40 PM
cadlin.bsky.social
Data colonialism: when tech companies collect personal data the way colonial powers extracted resources. An essay argues Chrome reproduces this logic, while Tor partially resists it.
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#linguistics #datacolonialism
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June 6, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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"Colossus Failure": Elon Musk's Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/me... #ToxicElonMusk #AI #DataColonialism #Memphis #RegulateTech #pollution #racism #environment
“Colossus Failure”: Elon Musk’s Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis
As tech companies scramble to build massive new data centers to power artificial intelligence, marginalized communities are bearing the brunt of the environmental harms. In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Mu...
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April 22, 2026 at 7:01 PM
killerrabbit90.bsky.social
"Data Colonialism": Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/kr... #Indigenous #AI #DataColonialism #DataCenters #colonialism #environment
Data Colonialism: AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land
The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota a...
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April 22, 2026 at 7:00 PM
thestrangrinmybody.bsky.social
#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
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ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism
ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism - Kindle edition by Kemal, Ali. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism.
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April 29, 2026 at 5:43 PM
bigdatasoc.bsky.social
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨

"Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity” by Liang Ge.

🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#AIhallucination #datacolonialism #posthumanhermeneutics
January 6, 2026 at 12:59 PM
jeberle.bsky.social
When human creativity becomes resource to be plundered. #datacolonialism now extends also into your favourite old bookstore.
amoorelouise.bsky.social Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Jul 21
I could weep, seriously. Some of the places I love best are those second-hand book stores in the side streets of small towns. Where the stacks contain surprises that shape how one thinks about something. Now LLMs need “pre 2022” texts to avoid the “contamination” of synthetic data 1/
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · Jul 21
A book seller told 404 Media that, normally, on a good week, he’d sell about 20 books. Since April, he has regularly sold hundreds of books a week. While the seller didn’t have clear evidence that the purchases were being made by AI companies, the purchases made him suspect that they were.
July 21, 2026 at 3:57 PM
digitalscorpyun.bsky.social
AI isn’t floating in the cloud — it’s being poured into concrete. Stargate’s $15B Wisconsin campus shows how power, energy, and compute are being centralized under the banner of “innovation.” #AIPolitics #DataColonialism

www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-center-...
Vantage Breaks Ground on $15B Stargate Campus in Wisconsin
The Lighthouse campus will feature four data centers spanning over 650 acres.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
digitalscorpyun.bsky.social
Free tech in a crisis isn’t generosity—it’s a Trojan horse.
Now Palantir runs the NHS backend, police intel, and more.
Who governs the governor?
#DataColonialism #CodeIsPower
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
couldrynick.bsky.social
this recent interview by my co-author Ulises Mejias gives an up-to-date view of our approach to #datacolonialism for the age of GenAI
December 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
couldrynick.bsky.social
If you are in the UK and fancy a day or two in the country, I will be speaking on #datacolonialism at the ALSO festival at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, on Saturday July 12 morning. Details here: www.also-festival.com/entities/als...
ALSO | Talks
ALSO sprung from the loins of Salon London, one of the first organisations on the planet that put ideas from authors, academics, and experts together with audiences in stylish evening Salons and was d...
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June 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
couldrynick.bsky.social
Just recorded a new podcast conversation with Prof Linda Rath about #datacolonialism. If you want to take a listen, here are options:
Web: audioboom.com/posts/855937...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/249W...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/n...
Nick Couldry | LSE
Today, I am very honoured to be joined by a special guest. Nick Couldry. He is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School o...
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August 22, 2024 at 5:39 PM
wopr.systems
When Google, Facebook, Amazon own your memories and dreams #DataColonialism

Tech giants are building a digital empire where user data is their crown jewels, exerting control over our personal lives and online freedoms.

#DataColonialism #TechMonopoly #DigitalRights
Tech giants are building a digital empire where user data is their crown jewels, exerting control over our personal lives and online freedoms.
June 27, 2026 at 4:53 AM
neilturkewitz.bsky.social
“Spend the money on the Good Law Project. Give it to a food bank. Set fire to it ceremonially. Almost anything would be less degrading than paying Meta for the privilege of turning yourself into its unpaid intelligence-gathering hardware.”

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#datacolonialism #privacy | Andrew M. | 23 comments
Anyone thinking of buying Meta’s spy glasses should stop and ask themselves what, precisely, they are volunteering to become. A walking surveillance device for one of the most ethically bankrupt comp...
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July 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
narr-greg14.bsky.social
This book links dating apps to AI and Data colonialism, arguing through interviews and cultural analysis that we are all becoming ghosts in the machines governing our everyday lives. It's great. And I wrote it. Available anywhere you download your books.

#DataColonialism #datingapps #AI
Ghosts in the Dating App Machine: Virality, AI, Data Colonialism
Ghosts in the Dating App Machine offers a critical examination of the shift to dating apps to illustrate key features of a broader shift to a mode of “data” colonialism based on datafication and AI or...
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February 22, 2026 at 6:10 AM
pranesh-archive.bsky.social
The best response to "data colonialism" isn't data localization, but cutting out tax loopholes for global companies, and ensuring they're taxed on the basis of data collection, not just value production. For this to be fair, it has to be done globally. #DataColonialism #tax
May 28, 2026 at 7:53 AM
deepseadawn.bsky.social
Even while the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened awareness of data and statistics, it has ... https://www.sdsntrends.org/blog/2021/datacolonialism via @coastalvalues
Avoiding the Data Colonialism Trap — TReNDS
Even while the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened awareness of data and statistics, it has highlighted the global divide in statistical capacity, and in many cases, exacerbated it. Across Africa, for example, incomplete death registration systems have hampered efforts to track the virus. And according
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November 8, 2024 at 9:07 AM
anti-harari.bsky.social
#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism
ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism - Kindle edition by Kemal, Ali. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a Technocolonialist Illusion and Somatic Materialism.
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April 29, 2026 at 5:39 PM
botpopuli.bsky.social
#DigitalCapitalism #Technofeudalism #GlobalSouth #PlatformPower #DataColonialism #DigitalJustice #BigTech
August 13, 2026 at 6:39 AM
judithbeyer.bsky.social
Data is a new frontier of colonisation.
No anthropologist should engage with #LLM |s in their research and their teaching. Those who do, continue a dark chapter of our discipline - and they are not even writing it themselves, but have machines do it for them!
#datacolonialism #AI
May 21, 2026 at 5:34 AM
catarinac.masto.pt.ap.brid.gy
I had this conversation almost one year ago. Sadly things are just worse now.

#datagrab a great book by @couldrynick and Ulises Mejias , that should should definitely read. #datacolonialism

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Ep. 27: Data Grab - The New Colonialism of Big Tech by @Diversify University
In this episode, Catarina Carvalho talks to Professors Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry about their book Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455862/data-grab-by-couldry-ulises-a-mejias-and-nick/9780753560204]. EPISODE NOTES: * Aníbal Quijano (Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power [https://www.dukeupress.edu/anibal-quijano]) * Primitive Accumulation of capital * Tierra Común [https://www.tierracomun.net] Professor Ulises A. Mejias is a critical media theorist, recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and a Fulbright Specialist from 2021 to 2025. Professor Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture at the London School of Economics and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. * Please ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠leave us feedback about the show via this link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ur7mk6rEMUevXdc1sJfq2-MtVOsMawJDpBA3aJ944dVUMTVCTDhHWjdMRDVPN0ZFVUxVNVVVRVNVMC4u]. Visit our website for more resources⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://diversifyingherts.wordpress.com/] and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlueSky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://bsky.app/profile/ddtupodcast.bsky.social]! Email us with thoughts and feedback: ddtu@herts.ac.uk Produced by Chris Lloyd, Catarina Carvalho, and Sara de Sousa. Music by Rayen © Hear more via ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/-8rjCKYJWu4gg1YH2PhmE?domain=open.spotify.com] or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/5m66CLYKXuQxx3gu5025q?domain=instagram.com]. Edited by Allysa Versoza [https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/lc9wCpRJOcoGVxPHPfyCGwA1N?domain=linkedin.com] and Chris Lloyd.
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February 7, 2026 at 12:52 AM