New from J.D. Vance: Hillbilly firing a rifle into the air while balls deep in a squealing hog.

The sad thing is that most people won’t even give a damn.

Good for them! Hopefully this leads to a stronger labor movement nationwide.

Will the circle streak be unbroken?

Fuck.

Posts like this remind me just how grateful I am for the Fediverse.

I remember when I used to be able to find dedicated message boards for bands that I liked. Now I’m lucky if there’s a subreddit where it’s just a bunch of people submitting poorly drawn fan art of the band.

Another day, another moment of being thankful for my dedicated .mp3 player.

This won’t affect me - seeing as I have no use for Instagram - but I do worry that some actual DECENT sites will adopt this in the near future.

The full article is well worth reading. It’s good to find a lucid, logical deconstruction of why, precisely, this will be a complete disaster.

We know this what the real purpose of this is, it seems like they’re going to sell it as a necessary tool for people who are too stupid to use a basic search function? Per The Verge:

“Microsoft’s launching Recall for Copilot Plus PCs, a new Windows 11 tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.”

Oh, and apparently “Microsoft is promising users that the Recall index remains local and private on-device.” Something something Brooklyn Bridge…

c/fuckcars

Further justifying my commitment to avoiding Prime at all costs.

Good. Fuck Twitter.

Absolutely horrifying, but not surprising. This kind of shit is exactly what we were worried about when facial recognition tech started to take off.

And this is precisely why you don’t store your files in the cloud.

Yet more evidence that we shouldn’t be handing over sensitive data to random companies. Will this change anyone’s behaviour? Sadly, probably not.

Well, fuck. This was the ONE social media site that I put my data on, and that was out of necessity (job hunting). I know it’s not the same, but this sort of feels like the Equifax breach.

You want us to use Edge? Then stop sucking, and respect our privacy. Oh, wait…that’s the antithesis of Microsoft’s philosophy.

Sadly, plenty of idiots will gladly hand over whatever he wants. Even if you COULD trust that he wouldn’t use your data for nefarious purposes, why would you want yet ANOTHER company to have the complete story of your life in a hackable database? Remember the Equifax data breach? Guess most people don’t.

I’m not worried about Twitter. I’m worried about other platforms following suit. What if we get to the point where the power company wants your biometric data before they’ll let you pay your bill?

Oh, I’m sorry, of course…it’s OUR fault that we’re broke!

“Junk websites filled with AI-generated text”

And here I thought this was going to be a headline about Reddit.

And then we find ourselves falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

It’s like New Coke, but even dumber.

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