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I don’t comment on politics.
Using literally verbatim post-1933 rhetoric of the Third Reich: this is how it began. And how it begins.
Remember how it continues. And, eventually, hopefully ends.
As always the “magic ingredient” is a bunch of underpaid serfs in far-away countries:
“Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.”
gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedl…
Hey @jochensiegert , heute früh im Radio hab ich Werbung für die „GiroCard“ gehört, zentrale Message „Made in Germany“. Das ist doch n lost cause, oder?!
“If we spent just one-tenth of the effort we spend prosecuting the poor on prosecuting the rich, it would be a very different world.”
schneier.com/blog/archives/2…
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Oh this is amazing. "Orchid vinyl" copies of the new Taylor Swift got mispressed with @EdCartwright's 'Happy Land' comp of **massively druggy** mid-90s electronica; TikTok is full of girls hearing Cabaret Voltaire for the first time and freaking tf out. tiktok.com/@mischief_maraude…?
Noch ist das Jahr nicht ganz rum, aber man darf schonmal bilanzieren:
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Powerful new letter to Congress from a group of concerned programmers & technologist arguing that blockchain “is not built for purpose and will remain forever unsuitable as a foundation for large-scale economic activity.” Congress should heed their warning concerned.tech/
The end of an era. “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.” – and yet here we are 20+ years later. Godspeed. apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/t…
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It's most visible in the IT world. Same day, two conversations on legacy.
The first was a company discussing how to get rid of its legacy IaaS and move to serverless. The second was a company discussing how to get rid of its legacy and move to IaaS.
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• Demographers estimate that 117 billion humans have been born.
• Almost 8 billion are alive now.
To bring these large numbers into perspective I made this visualization.
A giant hourglass. But instead of measuring the passage of time, it measures the passage of people. /2
It’s a trap.
14 year ago, the world's financial system came to the brink of collapse. Central banks scrambled to react. Businesses shuttered. People lost their homes. Many governments fell. Faith in our institutions shattered. The Occupy movement was launched. So was Bitcoin. 1/
ALT A giant Bitcoin casts an ominous shadow over a traditional, columnated bank; dark clouds roil behind them. Image: Derrich (modified): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mammatus-storm-clouds_San-Antonio.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en Ed Uthman (modified): https://www.flickr.com/photos/euthman/517012174/ CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
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Hi, I'm sure that whoever runs this account has no idea who I am, but I founded @mozilla and I'm here to say fuck you and fuck this. Everyone involved in the project should be witheringly ashamed of this decision to partner with planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters.
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Making changes in DNS feels like visiting an ancient oracle, worriedly submitting your request, then waiting patiently while the mystical answer is revealed.
