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Pen and paper. You can never ensure that the information remains obscure, but if you keep the original documents away from a computer, and share them via post, they will only ever be seen by human eyes. You can’t ensure that someone won’t scan them at some point though.

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Yes, do things that don't scale well. Tell someone face to face without recording it. It's a story as old as time.

Newsletters used to be delivered through regular mail, they weren't always emails you intended to read but ultimately ignore.

There are newsletters that are still only available through regular mail. They tend to be very niche (and therefore expensive), but they still thrive.

States and corporations are investing billions of dollars into creating the infrastructure to train on everything, everywhere, all the time. As AI on the web runs out of data to train on, the need for organic training data will necessitate merging AI with global surveillance capitalism and the panipticon, and training on the real world. You're not going to be able to just opt out.

You may not be recording your conversations but someone will be. Everything you write will be scanned, and every camera will be training an AI on everything it sees.

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