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JCS, I've worked with folks from FB... several times. Nice folks (except for one, looking at you Melissa), very talented, but goddamn it listen to me when I tell you this... THOSE PEOPLE WILL HORK UP EVERY BIT OF DATA ON YOU THAT THEY CAN. YOUR KIDS AS WELL.

i was horrified when I found myself working on a project related to Messenger for Kids.

DO. NOT. TRUST. META.

How TF do you think they pay for all the servers and high-priced talent? A service that millions of ordinary folks use for free?

I recently had cause to start a new FB page with an entirely different handle and entirely different circle of friends. Completely separate from my OG FB acct. It was very interesting to watch the interaction. For instance I found out very quickly who in that new group was doing a search on me; those people very quickly became suggested to me as new connections on my OG account. Watching how the ads and news feed changed in my new acct as I did this and that online was also very interesting.

ANYBODY who purchases any hardware from Meta (Portal, whatever) is a bloody fool.

leighr said:

The end of so called “fact checkers” is a welcome relief for true free speech. When one person, or group, has the power to decide what is ‘true’ or not, we are all in trouble. See exhibit one: China, or even worse, North Korea. We all need to fight against this sort of abuse of money and power, and while I am not a huge Facebook fan, I’m glad that they are following X’s lead in allowing free speech. 

Only liars object to factchecking.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-worries-free-speech-advocates-calls-prosecute-researchers-cr-rcna179194

He ain’t gonna be your boyfriend no matter how much you simp for him

https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-accused-of-censoring-right-wing-x-accounts-who-disagree-with-him-on-immigration-13280740

Are you clueless, born yesterday, or knowingly pushing the Elon fanboi party line? Impossible to tell.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-elon-musk-twitter-has-approved-83-of-censorship-requests-by-authoritarian-governments.html


Looking forward to your inevitable “fAkE nEwS!!!!” retort 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-s-x-boots-reporter-from-site-after-she-debunks-bizarre-conspiracy-theory-claiming-mogul-uses-burner-account/ar-AA1x4oxV


In the final days of the campaign TTPOS’ former chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, briefly made news when he said his former boss fit the definition of a fascist. Sadly the warning fell flat, coming off as little more than a history lecture.

This is a drum I’ve been banging for some time now the more I have educated myself about fascism. Knowingly or not he’s aping what Benito did. He inspires a cult of personality unique to cult leaders and despots. His most fanatical believers are willing to commit violence on his behalf. He doesn’t have to explicitly command these acts and he knows it. His goons have successfully intimidated elections officials and politicians fearful of violence, doxxing, and harassment from his deranged fans. He praises and sympathizes with autocrats like Putin and Kim.

He said he wanted US military leaders to unquestioningly do his bidding like Hitler’s generals did. I don’t expect you to know that Hitler was disastrously bad at military strategy, in case you’re not sufficiently concerned about a commander-in-chief speaking well of Hitler.

Fascism always turns out poorly in the end. 80 years ago Americans fought a historic conflict to defeat it.

TTPOS is a textbook fascist and Muskerberg are willing collaborators. You, like all other brainwashed Muskerberg boosters, are useful idiots.

quakerotis said:

T**** (the convicted felon and sexual predator) is a criminal. 

Tim Cook is complicit with a criminal.

I don’t perceive Cook to be happily collaborating like Musk and Bezos and other billionaire scum (but I repeat myself). The Traitor-in-Chief will be in the office four more years, it’s Cook’s duty to employees and shareholders to advocate for Apple with whoever occupies the office.

Stabitha_Christie said:

Of all the issues that the President of the United States has to address how do Apple's business practices even rank? 

 slightly more important than renaming the Gulf of Mexico and somewhat lower than using lethal force to colonize two free nations that have made it clear they don't want to be part of the USA.

Teams is a hot mess. Zoom is vastly superior in every way.

and yet… the IT people at my very large institution have guzzled the Redmond Flavr-Aid and are doing all they can to kill use of Zoom and cram Teams down everyone’s throats. They seem to think Zoom and Teams are interchangeable videoconferencing solutions which is hilarious coming from people who are paid to understand technology. They actually consider Zoom to be a toy and Teams to be a professional solution 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Very fortunately our c-suite people love Zoom.

See Kamil Galeev's Twitter feed for a well-informed view of what's happening in Russia from an academic. Not saying he's right about everything but he makes very good points. https://mobile.twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1498377757536968711

There's not ever going to be a popular uprising against Putin. That's just not how things work in Russia. For one, the deaths are disproportionately low in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the two main population centers and of course Moscow is the seat of power. That's not at all a coincidence. Putin is perfectly happy to sacrifice the lives of young men in distant areas of the vast Russian territory. Their families are too far from Moscow to do anything about it, and for decades Russians have had any notion of asserting themselves ground the fuck out of them. First by the Soviet regime, and now by Putin's government. (If anything, Russia is more dangerous than the USSR because at least the Soviet Union wasn't a one-man show.)

Cincytee nailed it. If Putin is ever brought down, it's because he's losing. I was talking to somebody last night who was worried about Putin and his nukes. I told him, look buddy: Putin is aggressive but it's calculated aggression. He's not going to invade NATO territory, we've already proven in Ukraine that NATO weaponry in capable hands can defeat Russia on the battlefield. Actually taking on NATO forces - with their superior training and strategy and tactics and morale - would be disastrous for Russia and for Putin himself.


Putin is not suicidal but if he ever came to the point that he was thinking of lobbing a nuke or two in order to avoid definitively losing in Ukraine, I'm certain that he would be removed by others who don't share his death wish.

I owned a Canon ImagePrograf 5000 for several years. Very nice printer, pro quality. Printed up to 17" wide to museum-quality archival paper.

BUT it became obsolete after about six years because Canon refused to keep the drivers up-to-date. I couldn't even download the older ones to put on an obsolete Mac that had the OS necessary to run the printer/software.

Otherwise the printer had many years of life left in it.

FU CANON YOU ARE DEAD TO ME

NickoTT said:

It disgusts me that this is what business leaders in this country now have to do. Kiss the ring of a clueless wannabe dictator. I do not fault Tim. He is only doing what he needs to do in the best interest of Apple.

This is what fascism looks like. 

Jim_MAY said:

The Trump Administration will advance an appeal to the Supreme Court. Congress gave tariff powers to the Presidents long ago.

It sure is fascinating to watch MAGA Republicans admit in real time that they thought they elected a dictator.

On Friday, Apple's shareholders launched a class action lawsuit against the tech giant.

At the risk of being pedantic... "Apple's shareholders" means all of Apple's shareholders. I'm an Apple shareholder and I am not a party to this lawsuit. "Apple shareholders" or "Some Apple shareholders" would have been much more accurate.

I understand this was a class action on behalf of all shareholders, yet I and many, many other shareholders did not participate in the filing of this (frivolous) lawsuit. We would have no role in this action until/unless it is successfully adjudicated in favor of the plaintiffs.