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Tried using Bluesky and I kind of hate it or more specifically the number of tankies over there 😂
You kids complaining about student loans need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a mysterious donor to pay off all your debts like a Supreme Court Justice.
Interesting how deeply cutting back on how I use Twitter has severely reduced how much I use social media at all.

My contempt for Big Telecom has risen another notch with its foul -- and successful -- smear campaign against FCC nominee Gigi Sohn. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/bidens-fcc-pick-withdraws-regrets-that-isps-get-to-choose-their-regulators/

As Gigi said in withdrawing, the American people are the losers to a cartel that defines everything wrong with business and politics.

Biden FCC nominee withdraws, blaming cable lobby and “unlimited dark money“

Gigi Sohn gives up amid opposition from Republicans and Democrat Joe Manchin.

Ars Technica

The way people keep looking for a reason behind The Great Twitfuckening that isn’t “Elon Musk is a narcissistic jerk” blows my mind.

He’s not playing 5-dimension chess. He’s just a banal self-absorbed asshole.

Every action he’s taken at twitter can, and should be, completely explained by “Elon Musk is an idiotic jerk.”

There, I wrote the core of every upcoming “Why is Elon…” article y’all will ever right.

He’s a bully. Period. Not that deep.

Can't wait for the worst Republicans to hold their competition about who can most creatively call Jimmy Carter a loser during a period of mourning without getting canceled.

@richardrathe @ramin_hal9001 @pluralistic

I think this statement could go far beyond cars. No device should need to "phone home" and ask if it still allowed to turn on.

I am worried about how everything needs to be connected and companies desire to continue to make money after the product is sold.

Imagine the story of the HP printer which disabled itself because the user ended their replacement ink problem. Now think about connected kitchen appliances like stove, fridge, or micro. Oh, you want to make ice? Pay an extra $300 and we can enable your ice maker. Want to use the broil feature in your oven? Pay some more. And you'll need to pay monthly or per use.

It's getting out of hand I think and we need to get governments that realize this to step in and tell them to knock it off.

For all the talk of the Twitter files supposedly (but not actually) revealing that Twitter was actively colluding with Democrats to censor conservatives (note: this did not actually happen), it's interesting to see that none of the Twitter Files discuss the now revealed point that Republicans regularly demanded Twitter remove tweets: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/09/somehow-missing-from-the-official-twitter-files-twitter-had-to-continually-respond-to-trumps-gop-officials-demands-for-taking-down-tweets/
Somehow Missing From The Official ‘Twitter Files’: Twitter Had To Continually Respond To Trump’s & GOP Officials’ Demands For Taking Down Tweets

So, we already noted that Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee’s grandstanding hearing about Twitter revealed how Trump’s White House asked Twitter to remove a tweet from Chrissy…

Techdirt

Amusing to compare Musk's grandiose "everything app" and "Product X" with the practical effect of nuking the free API, e.g., sites dropping the ability to login with Twitter.

Google understands how to weave itself into the web's fabric. Musk does not.

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my dad goes to a bar with his friends every friday and he makes a list of discussion topics pt 5

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