March 10 - 2 of Pentacles

The two of pentacles, the Intercloud. A cloud with the name of government entities like Mossad, DARPA, and the CIA as well as corporations like IBM, Oracle, Google and Apple inside of it emits another cloud with the words Global Data beneath it. The second cloud emits two more clouds.

(So many pentacles... money money money). A card that represents adaptability and balance, flexibly responding to different situations or multiple demands.

And of course, what's more flexible now, possible to bend to so many different ends, fast-moving, and sometimes more desirable and worth more than cash-- data! And the Intercloud is the sort of anti-Whole Earth Catalog... the conglomerate of states and corporations that share data gleaned from surveillance and bureaucracy to be turned into policing and advertising... ugh.

The flexibility here is how amenable these things are to working together... think of all the times Google or Apple turned data over to police without even putting up a fight... without even needing to be asked... we may as well assume everything connected in this cloud is the same thing.

And the thing about this alienated, systematic data is that it doesn't really understand your particular life situation, and it hates ambiguity. In many cases I've found you have to act how the data expects to get through some form or new piece of data collection cruft, rather than giving them what's strictly "accurate." Adaptability goes both ways... but only one side has to show flexibility in response.