2022 is the year I stopped putting `!g` in front of DuckDuckGo searches to compare Google results, because Google results are now routinely worse.

Friends at the Googleplex: blink once if y'all know this and are trying to fix it; blink twice if you're stuck there because of the health insurance.

From @pluralistic:

"Earlier this year, many people with Argus optical implants – which allow blind people to see – lost their vision when the manufacturer, Second Sight, went bust.

"Nano Precision Medical, the company's new owners, aren't interested in maintaining the implants, so that's the end of the road for everyone with one of Argus's 'bionic' eyes. The $150,000 per eye that those people paid is gone, and they have failing hardware permanently wired into their nervous systems.

"Having a bricked eye implant doesn't just rob you of your sight – many Argus users experience crippling vertigo and other side effects of nonfunctional implants. The company has promised to 'do our best to provide virtual support' to people whose Argus implants fail – but no more parts and no more patches."

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/unsafe-at-any-speed/#this-is-literally-your-brain-on-capitalism

If the most successful people in your system are the worst of humanity, your system is fundamentally broken.

#elonMusk #peterThiel #marcAndreessen #markZuckerberg #ericSchmidt #rupertMurdoch #jeffBezos #billionaires #capitalism

I heard that Sam Bankman-Fried finally got arrested after making the interview rounds, invited to New York Times events etc. Contrast with the Black people who got life in prison in 3 strikes California where the 3rd strike was stealing a slice of pizza, the immigrants put in concentration camps, or people shot, just because.

Any time I feel like I'm not doing enough somehow, I remember him, Elizabeth Holmes & most of Silicon Valley tech bros who receive billions to burn for no reason.

Took this photo at friends' #wedding some 16 years ago or so with a #Pentax SP-1000 #35mm film #SLR camera I just bought from a garage sale earlier that day for super cheap. I'd say it was a good investment. This is my most favourite photo I've ever taken at a wedding.

#flowers #photography #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm