Dave RahardjaApr 25
True.
Show threadPaco Hope #resistApr 26

@drahardja And the tech oligarchs like Zuck and Tim Cook, and Bill Gates famously kept their own children pretty far from the tech their companies made.

And the people defunding public schools send their kids to private schools. And the people destroying social security are wealthy enough that they don’t need it. And the people destroying food stamps have never depended on them. And … and… and…

Show threadRick Baumhauer
@paco @drahardja I agree with the overall theme here, but Tim Cook doesn't have any children.
Apr 26 at 11:39pmWeb
Show threadPaco Hope #resistApr 26
@rick_baumhauer you’re right. I think it was Steve Jobs. I’m sure it was an Apple head honcho. @drahardja
Show threadRick BaumhauerApr 26
@paco @drahardja If it was Jobs, he was in a different era - the "post-PC" era that started with the iPhone was only just starting to really take off (he didn't live to see an iPhone released with screen larger than 3.5", after all), and the iPad was only 18-months-old when he died. I'd be surprised if his kids didn't use Macs. A lot has changed in the last 13+ years.
Show threadRick BaumhauerApr 26
@paco @drahardja That's not meant to be a blanket exhoneration of Jobs - his management style would not have aged well, and he was behind some very worker-unfriendly policies (collusion to hold down pay, etc). Still, I would like to have seen how Steve would have dealt with the last decade of social media, tech regulation, and the rightward lurch of tech billionaires.
Show threadPaco Hope #resistApr 26
@rick_baumhauer @drahardja this is what I was thinking of. https://www.the-independent.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-ipad-children-technology-birthday-a6893216.html
The reason Steve Jobs didn't let his children use an iPad | The Independent

Despite building one of the world's biggest tech companies, Steve Jobs strictly limited his children's use of technology

The Independent
Show threadRick BaumhauerApr 27
@paco @drahardja Good catch - I hadn't seen that.
Show thread🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼Apr 27

@paco

Here I was, bewilderedly thinking the same thing because
I too had heard and read that 😂

@rick_baumhauer @drahardja

Show threadhaliphax 👾Apr 27
@paco @rick_baumhauer @drahardja This article is a paragraph with 37 ads
Show threadPaco Hope #resist6d ago

@haliphax yeah it’s terrible. Thanks to my Pi-hole it’s just weirdly spaced out paragraphs. Tons of white space.

@rick_baumhauer @drahardja