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a lot of things were going viral over three years ago
a lot of things were going viral over three years ago
should go ahead and ban image uploading to lemmy.world, as there is likely a ton of illegal, copyright-violating content that hasn’t been stress-tested for fair use.
Probably doesn’t help that all fish are now chock full of PFAS
backdoors for thee, none for me
I see a connection between elon’s increasingly ‘wacky’ persona with the start of the cozy financial relationship he has with saudi arabia. imo, he’s serving as a captured asset for oil giants to further their influence and interests in the west, in a similar vein to all the recent acquisitions of popular US/UK sports teams by the middle east.
The ‘eccentric’ behavior, to me, is 100% intentional. A layer of security is built when your rivals, regulators, and the general public are unable to predict your next move. A ‘white noise’ is created: for every midnight decision to change your company logo to dogecoin, intentional and sinister actions slip thru, such as the banning of twitter in turkey during their recent elections.
This strategy of wrapping yourself in layers of ambiguity was explored by Adam Curtis in his doc Hypernormalization, describing how this has been the central tactic Putin has used in Russia for decades.
Lenovo has spent the last decade destroying the repairablity of ThinkPads. They’ve only ‘rediscovered’ the ‘innovations’ they stripped from their laptops, like a removable battery, because they are scared of framework.
Instant Kessler syndrome!
fun fact: fiber optic wire doesn’t have to dodge anything because it’s buried in the ground
Grab the crowbar at the bottom and attack the enemies on the page