#5yrsago Debunking “#GhostUsers”: MI5’s plan to #backdoor all #SecureMessaging platforms https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/12/17/on-ghost-users-and-messaging-backdoors/

#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren’s new bill: let the US government manufacture generic versions of overpriced, unavailable drugs https://theintercept.com/2018/12/18/elizabeth-warren-generic-drugs-bill/

#1yrago “Metaverse” means “#PivotToVideo” https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/18/metaverse-means-pivot-to-video/

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Zuck doesn't know why we would use the metaverse, but he believes if he can convince capitalists that we all want to live there, they'll invest the capital to figure out how to serve us there, and he can extract rent from those capitalists and start earning "passive income." It's an Uber for Cyberpunk Dystopias play.

Zuck's done this before. Remember the #PivotToVideo? Zuckerberg wanted to compete with Youtube, but he didn't want to invest in paying for video production.

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Next will be: "We block links to other sites because they might be malicious."

Then some kind of "#PivotToVideo."

Probably not video (though who knows?) but some other feature that a major rival has, which Twitter will attempt to defraud its captive, commodified suppliers into financing an entry into.