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Then Google made a fateful discovery: "data exhaust," or the byproduct of user digital behavior, was not waste to be expelled but gold to be mined. Web searches don't just generate results; they generate data: the way you type your query, the heatmap of your mouse, the pages you do or don't visit, and more. This exhaust was actually a "behavioral surplus" capable of bolstering Google's burgeoning advertising business by incorporating predictive modeling based on data its users generated.

AI, Slavery, Surveillance, and Capitalism

Substack

Exit *Videodrome* . Enter the *Oedipod.* 9 Man was given New Flesh by his cybernetic machineries, but in plugging into the Cronenbergian circuits of a technicity fully under enemy control, they have given capital ever more means to regulate the use of human bodies and minds in productive time.

Flatline Constructs

Mark Fisher, Adam Jones

According to Weinberg, “Ethnic divisiveness was a centrifugal force that diminished the capacity of Odessa workers to act in a unified fashion.”

Doppelganger

Naomi Klein

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