Your periodic reminder that VC-funded CEOs are in a situation that they have bet both their kidneys on being able to deliver a 100x return to the bone-saw wielding loan sharks who funded them.
Your “community” is worthless to them unless it delivers Kidney Money.
They cannot just “decide” to not enshittify the community you mistakenly believed was yours. No appeal to justice or fairness will work, unless accompanied by a donor kidney or two.
Let's not forget that the muskrat is in a totally different situation, however. He has PLENTY o' money to pay off the loansharks. He's enshittifying the birdsite just for funsies.
I still argue that it's performance art: he's providing an object lesson to people about why you shouldn't let important things get purchased and run by billionaires and he spent $44B to show how much he meant it.
And a bunch of people *still* haven't gotten the point.
@Soyweiser @stevendbrewer @Unixbigot @cstross
Seriously? Do these people not read/write science fiction since, like, forever, or even at least seen a James Bond movie?!
@stevenradecki @stevendbrewer @Unixbigot @cstross In cybersecurity, taking movie plot threats as real is very much frowned upon. As it leads to crazy unrealistic reactions to imagined threats which make real security harder.
For example see the movie plot contest: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/announcing_movi.html
related: https://xkcd.com/538/
@Soyweiser @stevenradecki @Unixbigot @cstross
As I was getting run out of technical work (because the the leadership of the University would rather outsource everything than maintain their own skilled workforce) I was pleased to see the notion of "convergent security" finally getting bandied about: Cybersecurity isn't just its own, separate thing: it needs to be integrated into all of the security practices of the institution, including physical, legal, financial, etc.
Kit Bashir
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Soy
Steven Radecki