Routinely pissing off bona fide spooks … seems like a way to wind up mysteriously disappeared

NetHack

The monopoly tried to make them the same thing.

Lawrence Lessig called out their bullshit, or they would have gotten away with it

https://nohello.net/en/

Internet Standards.

The things MS tried to extend-and-extinguish the Web when it was just barely born. Remember campaigns “best in any browser” ?

We almost didn’t have an open Internet.

Fuck you specifically, MicroSoft

As friends and family, we can only once and very gently voice concerns. Put the seed of doubt in there, and then wait (sometimes years) from them to realize.

Anything more and they double down on the bad relationship

(/me Waiting for my sister-in-law to divorce the abusive mysoginist asshat military son of a military man that is currently making her and her children’s life suck)

It’s a crime that Stanislaw Lem did not live to see this

Fair point. There used to be a distinction.

To quote the great Peter Sellers: “Not anymore!”

This

They are not focusing on making it easier for more people to run alternate nodes/indexers

They are focusing on enshittification

A guy like Holsey has incredible strength of will. Has surmounted challenges that I know would have caused me to give up shrink in fear and/or just die.

What the fuck is he so afraid of ?

And Alex Lifeson would be Prime Minister

Bless you again for not being religious. Always refreshing to encounter an adult.

Your life is what you mundanely do every day

No one special day defines your life

(Unless you do something stupid like just graze the ear)

And it is a death cult

Look at their churches everyone praying to the nailed-up dying guy pleading for their Savior to come back and end the world

Christianity is sick as fuck and Christofascists are in charge

Corporate centralized platform cosplaying as decentralized begins inevitable enshittification

Google is such a shitty company morally

And then it treats you employees like shit

I hope y’all are looking for new jobs, quietquitting, and monkeywrenching

I share your hate of YouTube.

But FYI Odysee is run by a hyperneoliberal Trump-adjacent CEO who jokes with his friends about selling user data for top price. I’ve been in the room with them. Disgusting people

Unlike MAGA

There are no longer any rules

NYT just ran an article today, interviewing academics who study countries that have slid from Democracy into Authoritarianism

Quote from Prof. Sean Westwood :

The most permanent damage, however, is the precedent. With these guardrails shattered, the temptation for a future Democratic administration to launch its own campaign of retribution — using a weakened system for its own ends — becomes immense. This is the grim, iterative nature of democratic backsliding: each transgression lowers the floor for the next, creating a cycle of political revenge that, once started, is nearly impossible to unwind.

please accept this Lemmy Gold