Amerikan Pharaoh

I hope you hold that same energy for CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press, and Reuters.

If you consider the ACLU to be ‘far left’ I don’t think I want you at my kickbacks tbh

Overpriced, locked down hardware, walled garden software, and a snobbish userbase. I simplify it all down to "I’m not paying 500 more dollars for a logo."

And this is why if you MUST take your phone somewhere “important”, you leave it off until it’s needed-- preferably battery disconnected, if your model still allows you access. Location data can blow an alibi just as surely as it can make one.

This kind of shit is why I keep telling people to thoroughly divest in every way from Meta. They’re just going to keep doing shit like this.

Is the evidence of your eyes with every new Meta acquisition not enough? Is what happened to XMPP not enough? The last twenty-four years of technological history is littered with these robber barons embracing, extending, and extinguishing everything that competes with them, and you’re gonna ask me for journalistic articles WRITTEN BY THE SAME FLUFFMEISTERS THAT SOFTBALL THESE ROBBER BARONS???

You’re a fuckin riot.

Simple: kick out Meta. There is no solution in which you take in anything of theirs and they don’t take that a country mile to extinguish your shit. Or have we not learned ANYTHING from the era of Silicon Valley neofeudalists buying up everything with even an iota of soul and murdering it just to make a point?