roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you
and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops
it cares not about
if privacy's harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed
twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you
when we are gone,
the corporate-owned neural networks trained on our social media posts,
to advertise to us, to surveill us,
will be the most complete backup of our personalities available,
despite being worn down and filtered for those purposes,
and relegated to cold, inexpensive storage in backups,
being that we won't be viewing ads again any time soon to pay the rent.
#rewitched
i can't believe mc frontalot made a song about online dating with this theme
@lifning I really like it!
'POEM' - Bravo 👏🏽
@lifning most popular toot I've ever seen!
@lifning RIP your notifications
@Concerned_Catgirl omg it takes so many paginated REST calls to populate the column at all if i filter to only show replies. halp.
@lifning This is my favorite post on the Internet.
@lifning
Thanks god there's no surveillance in non-capitalist regimes.
@BanjoFox Listen to how much YOU,
THE CONSUMER,
love Dr. Tran!
@csaurus You'll be sure to "love" these great deals on romance novels!
Las rosas son rojas
Las violetas, azules
En el capitalismo de la vigilancia
El poema te lee a ti
Y te muestra anuncios
De floristerías
Y apunta tus clicks
Y nunca descansa
No se preocupa
Si daña tu privacidad
El dinero es verde
Cuando se cosecha gente
Twitter es cián
Facebook es azul
Tus amigos son el producto
Y también lo eres tú
!privacidad
@lifning exceptional!
@lifning This is the best spoopween poem <3
@lifning Beatiful, just truly beautifull. Thanks.
just beautiful. Shared widely!
@unsafelyhotboots you'd be lucky number 300 😮 i wasn't expecting it to make waves at all, let alone take off like this!
@lifning My friends all thought it was both disturbing and very clever. That was inspired.
@lifning This is beautiful.
twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
brother so can you
I'm the Scatman
@clacke
why should we be pleasing
the politician heathens
who would try to change the seasons
if they could
the state of the condition
insults my intuitions
and it only makes me crazy
and a heart like wood
everybody stutters
one way or the other
so check out my message to you
as matter of fact
don't let nothing hold you back
it's snowing on Mt. Fuji
@lifning I’ve never seem something get as many boosts and favorites as this did. Nice to see it around again.
@theycallmemo yeah, i guess there's some new eyes on it since the recent wave of new users.. this was literally a one-off thought i had when i was half-asleep and i didn't expect it to grow wheels like it did!
@lifning "grow wheels" is so visceral. i love it
@viv just like utena utena
@lifning this is actually so nice
I really don't want to like this as much as I do. Too spot on.
Just (2022) boosted it, as it is realy good!
@lifning *5 years later
@lifning it's that good! 🤩
another wave just started 😜
@lifning 5 years later now. Good job with the poem
@lifning 5 years later... 🙃
@lifning
I'm not :)
@lifning Thanks, that's a very nice poem!
@lifning oh god don't let Charlie Brooker see this toot
@lifning cyberpunk af
@lifning I dont know who ever gets brilliant ideas like this... Well I don’t, anyway 😅 But this really is a perfect mixture of poetry, criticism, wit, a bit of comedy and sarcasm! I’m in love...
@lifning it is not my first time to read a poetry about computer, but, this one is authentic. It is true!
Hey @lifning, I'd like to put that poem on the MyData SV website (mydatasv.org) -- assuming my co-organizers agree but I assume so. Assuming you are the author, would that be okay?
@lifning this is so good I want a tattoo with it
@lifning what if I post this on Facebook? 🤔
@lifning this poem will get boosts as long as there are people to read it... Or until we as a society collectively overthrow surveillance capitalism...
how am I still occasionally getting boosts on this poem almost a year later lol dang