fluxion
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- Comment on Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same? 3 weeks ago:
Folded like a lawn chair the second a dictator pops up to pry every past remaining bit of wealth and power out of our hands.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 4 weeks ago:
Suggit
- Comment on Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation 4 weeks ago:
What an absolute cuck
- Comment on Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War 5 weeks ago:
Not if we ban adhesives, straps, glue, welding equipment, string, and bendable wires. Think of the children.
- Comment on Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees 2 months ago:
And all that only a tiny portion of the hate i feel for greedy billionaires who destroy the lives of millions because they want even more wealth and power
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
It was nothing personal, more of an off-handed commentary on how things usually end up going after 20 years of seeing literally every site/service I’ve used and most of the companies I once considered “the good ones” eventually get shittier in some way when the business side puts on the squeeze.
The one exception I can think of is Wikipedia.
But I don’t have any reason to think badly of these folks, their current owners seem to have their hearts in the right place and indeed have made decisions that avoid lockin and assure users, and I hope they are another Wikipedia that will endure the tides of enshittification.
But I will never again assume that such hopes will remain the reality, even in this case. This is a snapshot in time. Owners change, priorities change, pricing models change, file formats change, common sense statements of basic decency like “don’t be evil” get rescinded, scrappy fun websites created by free-thinkers become tools of fascist oppression.
That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve your business and support currently. Just make sure your off-ramp options remain acceptable if things begin to change.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
“…until we have a large enough userbase to start monetizing and enshittifying…”
- Comment on First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech. 2 months ago:
They make it illegal except for Trump loyalists
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Corporations are people, my friend.
Sociopathic people.
- Comment on Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit 3 months ago:
You don’t use it because the AI already took over your life and murdered your biological counterpart
- Comment on Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit 3 months ago:
Businesses that think shoving AI tools down everyone’s throat will create superior productivity so they can lay off workers
- Comment on Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup 3 months ago:
As long as their posts don’t get artificially higher visibility
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 4 months ago:
$1-$2 month maybe: they want $7 which is close enough to a Hulu/Netflix subscription fee that you immediately realize it’s not tenable to subscribe to all the major news sites you read, so then you start needing to build a “top 5” in your head because that’s all you can reasonably budget and that’s either too much of a PITA for whatever article you’re trying to read or you realize Verge isn’t in that top 5 and move on
- Comment on EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo 5 months ago:
At this point Musk might greet all your health-related updates with a 1000x boost of anti-vax nonsense from RFK Jr and an army of anti-vax bots spewing Nazi rhetoric, then you getting sued and your account banned if you suggest something “fishy” is happening
Fuck this absolute steaming pile of a website and the nutjob that smeared his shit all over it. No government agency should even this of using it for anything regarding public communications
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 5 months ago:
Can I sue Elon for not advertising on my car window? Its only $1k/day
- Comment on Examination you say? What kind? 5 months ago:
That office should be in the Psych ward though not OB but i guess if you’re that much of a cunt it becomes hard to classify
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Because we are largely ignorant and easily manipulated by news and social media and there are zero policies in place to address that in any way whatsoever.
People can hear endless disgusting things about someone like Gaetz and a hand-wavy “fake news!” is all it takes for them to ignore all common sense.
It’s a disease, it’s terminal, and we have no cure in sight. Don’t be like us. Information warfare is real, it’s effective, and it does require very serious conversations about what is “free speech” is vs. blatant dishonest manipulation of the public.
We’re not the first nation, nor will we be the last to have our system poisoned and irreparably destroyed endless assaultd
- Comment on Restart of Three Mile Island tests US appetite for nuclear revival 5 months ago:
Not with this administration overseeing things
- Comment on Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump 5 months ago:
Yah they might drop $50-60k on cars they don’t want just to own the libs
- Comment on Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump 5 months ago:
Im curious what US Tesla sales are gonna look like next year
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 5 months ago:
Those sweet sweet Trump tariffs
- Comment on X Payments delayed after Musk’s X weirdly withdrew application for NY license 5 months ago:
I ain’t linking any bank accounts to that dystopian cesspool and its tyrant CEO with no regard for rule of law who constantly steps on legal landmines and skirts all regulations and precautions.
Like…PayPal had some bad practices, but nothing like the incompetence and complete disdain for his own users/customers that Musk brings to the table
- Comment on X Payments delayed after Musk’s X weirdly withdrew application for NY license 5 months ago:
PayPal was a service provided by a different company founded by Peter Thiel and others.
Musk didn’t really have anything to do with it. He, with others, founded X.com, that was meant to be an online banking system, and sort of became a competitor to PayPal.
Eventually they merged and Musk because CEO and highest shareholder. 6 months later the board of directors replaced him with Thiel while he was out if the country, but Musk still made a fortune with his shares.
- Comment on San Francisco will spend $212 million to bid 5.25-inch floppy disks goodbye — Muni Metro light rail upgrade represents a $700 million investment 5 months ago:
That’s a lot of floppies
- Comment on Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn't? 5 months ago:
I’ll pick the side that’s not trying to overthrow the foundations of democracy
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 5 months ago:
They should give access to one last update that displays “Fuck Putin” on your screen at all times
- Comment on Ford’s CEO Is Daily Driving A Xiaomi SU7 EV And Loving It | Carscoops 5 months ago:
It’s good to be able to honestly assess the competition. Hopefully Ford is taking notes
- Comment on Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust 5 months ago:
Amazon found a cheat code where they can avoid all brick and mortar fees and employees and leases and store inventory, made Bezos the richest man in the world…
And somehow they just can’t fucking stomach the idea of treating their employees with enough respect to not jam propaganda in their faces all day to stop them from asking for the slightest bit more.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 5 months ago:
AI companies specializing in spreading bullshit all across the internet have a bright future however
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 5 months ago:
I’m gonna have to ask you to stop abusing whatever random reddit mod banned you back then in case they might be here. Or else.