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Visit Go to Minus Description Despite their lofty mission statements, today’s big social media platforms are centrally focused on one singular concept: more. These capitalistic software machines are designed to stoke a pervasive and ever-increasing cycle of production and consumption …

Visit Go to Platform Sweet Talk Description Today’s dominant social media platforms are designed to produce, above all else, user engagement. Engaged users contribute increasing amounts of data, transforming platforms from empty containers of nothing into profitable private stores of …

Visit Go to Get Less Description For five years, the installation Get More—which lets people increment a number on a screen by visiting a website—has been installed in galleries and office buildings and homes, and has enjoyed periodic presence on …

Two years ago—before Facebook became the fastest company in history to reach a $1 trillion dollar valuation—my film ORDER OF MAGNITUDE extracted a few of Mark Zuckerberg’s most favorite video-recorded words to examine just how growth-obsessed he’d been over the …

At the behest of corporate copyright holders, media sharing sites like YouTube and SoundCloud have implemented listening algorithms designed to identify uploaded music. However, these “Content ID” systems are designed to presume all use is illegal use; every match is …

A generator of unique digital objects that can only be viewed once. Visit Go to Tokenize This Description A central construct of the booming cryptoart market is the creation of artificial scarcity through the “tokenization” of digital objects using NFTs. These certificates …

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An endless stream of doom, without all the specifics. Visit Go to The Endless Doomscroller Description “Doomscrolling” refers to the ways in which people find themselves regularly—and in some cases, almost involuntarily—scrolling bad news headlines on their phone, often for …

As the founder and CEO of the world’s largest social media corporation, what does Mark Zuckerberg think about? While we get clues from his posts on Facebook and elsewhere, a primary window into this question is through his public video …

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A browser extension that hides all the metrics on Instagram Install Install on Firefox (Chrome version was forced off the Web Store by Instagram in 2020) Introduction Instagram, like other social networks, is full of numbers. These numbers, or metrics, …

Q: Which browsers are supported? Can I use Twitter Demetricator on my phone? A: I support Chrome and Firefox natively with extensions/add-ons. All other browsers (Safari, Opera, Edge) are supported with Tampermonkey. As for mobile, currently only Firefox on Android …

Installing Twitter Demetricator on your desktop browser is easy. Find your browser below and follow the instructions. Google Chrome Click the button below to complete the installation of Twitter Demetricator on Google Chrome. When it finishes, load or reload Twitter …

A browser extension that hides all the metrics on Twitter Install Click the button below to install on Chrome, Firefox, or Firefox Android. Visit the extended installation page for instructions on installing in Safari, Edge, or Opera. Install on Chrome …

The cover of NXS #2: Synthetic Selves Context This past summer I received an invitation to contribute to the European magazine NXS. NXS is an experimental biannual publication that: …aims to explore the emotional and sensual side of hardware, software …

Q: When I install Go Rando on Chrome (or other browsers) it says Go Rando can “Read and change all data on Facebook.” What’s up with that? A: In order for the Go Rando extension to access the code that …

Installing Go Rando on your desktop browser is easy. Find your browser below and follow the instructions. Google Chrome Click the button below to complete the installation of Go Rando on Google Chrome. When it finishes, load or reload Facebook. …

Install Install Go Rando on Chrome Introduction Facebook’s “reactions” let you express how you feel about a link, photo, or status. While such data might be helpful for your friends, these recorded feelings also enable increased surveillance, government profiling, more …

Q: Can I still see images if I want to? A: Yes. You can toggle image hiding on/off by clicking adjusting the extension’s options. In Chrome, click the ‘txt’ extension icon and click the Hide Images? toggle. In Firefox with …

Installing Textbook on your desktop browser is easy. Find your browser below and follow the instructions. Google Chrome (recommended) Click the button below to complete the installation of Textbook on Google Chrome. When it finishes, load or reload Facebook. Install …

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