And you still act like you’re in freshman year

Close: you do get banned from their supercharger network if you try to repair your own car

“[Generative AI] is the leaded gasoline of tech, where the boost to engine performance didn’t outweigh the horrific health impacts it inflicted.”

I love Ed so much.

We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification

Steve Jobs is already in hell though, he ain’t getting your money either way

Talk about hidden figures…

Smuggling

I suspect that funding worker organizing would yield greater results

contracts involving federal law enforcement would be exempted

So Biden’s contracts are still legitimate if saying otherwise would upset the thug class

Sympathy strikes are illegal in the US. Not saying wildcat strikes wouldn’t be justified, but there is a deliberate policy to undermine this type of broader solidarity.

That’s mistaking a structural problem for a personal one. Zeynep Tufekci has a great argument about why that wouldn’t work:

It’s reasonable, for example, for a corporation to ponder who would be the best CEO or COO, but it’s not reasonable for us to expect that we could take any one of those actors and replace them with another person and get dramatically different results without changing the structures, incentives and forces that shape how they and their companies act in this world.

Journalistic malpractice to repeat their “accidentally” claim without attribution or quotes

What a fucking fraud

Did you just invent donating to ProPublica?

Second the suggestion of credit unions, but to be clear they’re neither charities nor non-profits; they’re member co-ops, run for the benefit of members (instead of stockholders), in which each member gets one vote (instead of each share of stock having one vote).

Bostrom…possessed one of those elusive, rather abstract personalities that perhaps lend credence to the simulation theory.

What a sick, understated burn