willington
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- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 2 weeks ago:
Tecnowashing is also fraud.
Take a failed concept like the gold standard, technowash it, and you get crypto scamcoins.
Greenwashing, sportswashing (saudi arabia), sanewashing (presenting insane ideas as debatable ideas, like debating human rights), small business washing (using ostensibly a pro small business argument to push a fortune 100 agenda), worker washing (treat workers like shit in private but make pro worker noises in public). Now we can add tecnowashing to the list.
Another example of technowashing is when a real estate company presents itself as a tech startup to inflate its valuation.
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 2 weeks ago:
I use IronFox all the time. For me almost nothing is broken.
Once a year I find one low value site that I have to load in Cromite to see what it is, and then I never use that trash site again.
In other words, IronFox fulfills 100% of all my browsing needs excellently.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
New people enter the market all the time.
That update is for those that don’t already have a Fairphone, presumably.
That said, I agree with your overall point. They should offer tablets and watches if they can.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 month ago:
Consumer activism, by itself, has rarely, if ever, accomplished anything.
The best recent examble was Tesla, but that wasn’t a mere non-buying action. Tesla action involved vadalism and a massive word of mouth campaign.
Basically if we want to fight for a future we believe in, we must stop playing patty cakes and fight like it’s a life and death struggle.
Symbolic resistance is not enough.
- Comment on Palantir hits new highs amid Israel-Iran conflict 1 month ago:
I think both peace and war are profitable. But those that profit from war may be more pushy than those that profit from peace, and so may get their way even as an unpopular minority .
Unless, the left (usually more pro peace) learns a few lessons from the right and places good outcomes above the holier than thou moral purity. “I’ve never made anyone uncomfortable” is not the merit badge that some think it is.
Of course the left can never be a mirror copy of the right because the left cannot afford to give as few fucks about anything as the right (who represent the already-haves economic incumbents; it’s not called the “fuck you money” for nothing). But the left can be way tougher and nuncedly uncompromising and even calculatingly and carefully millitant.
Might does not make right but might DOES make POLICY.
You need both right and might to live under a good policy.
Lotta good it does anyone to be right and insightful on all the issues and have zero impact anywhere.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 1 month ago:
Quote from the video, “You can smell it as well.” Refering to the turbine opetation.
- Comment on New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC 2 months ago:
Crypto is a solution looking for a problem.
The people behind crypto never studied the history of the gold standard.
Crypto is a ponzi scheme virtual asset, not a currency.