"First they came for the hackers, and I did not speak out—because I was not a hacker.

Then they came for the file sharers, and I did not speak out—because I was not sharing mp3s.

Then they came for the Indy web zines, and I did not speak out—because I was not an Indy web zines reader.

Then they came for the porn, and I did not speak out—because I was not using porn.

Then they came for my socials, and I did not speak out—because techbros bring capital and I love doom scrolling.

Then they built huge, city sized, five eyes, surveillance data centres in the desert, and I did not speak out—because I had nothing to hide.

Then they built Netflix and all the streaming data centres, and I did not speak out—because everyone loves to Netflix and chill binge.

Then they put everything into the cloud; data centres, and I did not speak out—because I don't really understand other people's computers and cloud is cool.

Then the AI came for my job, devoured all the knowledge, boiled the rivers and burned the land—and there was nowhere left to speak for me."

- "Dead Internet" by Wulfy,

with sincere apologies to
 — Martin Niemöller (Lutheran pastor in (Nazi) Germany - 1892 - 1984)

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