georgebaily

Netizen; singularitarian; professional gadfly; semi colons; deeply unserious; 💙 Linux; Dogecoin maximalist 🚀 - I oppose nuclear doomsday.

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2025-02-14 18:10:27

"So Google informed this person their data was seized almost 2 years after Google gave it to the FBI"
Google is a F*cking Snitch | Civil Liberties Defense Center
https://cldc.org/google-is-a-fcking-snitch/
#privacy

2024-12-19 08:36:40

What if the monetization model of AI will be that users have to pay to turn it off?
#enshittification

2024-11-02 14:24:03

>many of America's oligarchs pay no tax at all. Some of them even get subsidies intended for poor families, like Jeff Bezos, whose tax affairs are so scammy that he was able to claim to be among the working poor and receive a federal Child Tax Credit, a $4,000 gift from the American public to one of the richest men who ever lived:
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

2024-11-02 14:09:34

Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinic Council: *“The state of Israel is currently perpetrating a holocaust, the deliberate mass slaughter of Palestinian people, with weapons provided by the United States…We must honor our ancestors by shouting the truth to the heavens and putting our bodies on the line to stop the Israeli government’s #genocide of Palestinians now.” * https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/10/23/coffins-have-run-out/ #gaza

2024-11-02 14:06:00

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@npub17td…apfk "I'll never quit you, Vim"

2024-10-25 08:39:13

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@npub1xj8…egqe same headline in US soon?

2024-10-19 21:17:10

#DystopianHeadlineGenerator
>University in Lisbon suspends plans for course on #racism taught by all-white staff
>Nova university programme criticised for only having white instructors and for some of its content, such as session on ‘does racism really exist?’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/16/university-in-lisbon-suspends-plans-for-course-on-racism-taught-by-all-white-staff

2024-10-19 21:15:23

#DystopianHeadlineGenerator
>Big Tech is Trying to Burn #Privacy to the Ground–And They’re Using Big Tobacco’s Strategy to Do It
https://www.techpolicy.press/big-tech-is-trying-to-burn-privacy-to-the-ground-and-theyre-using-big-tobaccos-strategy-to-do-it/

2024-09-09 11:11:08

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@npub15zu…s7lx NOT THAT KIND OF TOUGH CHOICES

2024-09-09 07:35:14

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@npub15zu…s7lx and now do the big businesses

2024-09-08 12:32:23

Wonderfully succinct description of the current era of #capitalism not wanting too much #democracy - from "How will capitalism end" by Wolfgang Streek
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/101/939/869/079/059/original/168c643f568d8655.jpg

2024-09-06 23:34:45

Accidentally awesome atmospheric #pixelart game vibe from random #midjourney playing.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/093/226/202/810/515/original/b602b58c61fed1ce.png

2024-08-17 12:05:59

#DystopianHeadlineGenerator
>Low Earth Orbit Satellites Cause Environmental Harm Regulators Didnt Prepare For - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/16/report-low-earth-orbit-leo-satellite-systems-like-starlink-cause-environmental-harm-regulators-didnt-prepare-for/

2024-08-16 18:22:57

This but a moebius strip of GO AWAY
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/973/090/273/195/230/original/f628643251d28baa.jpg

2024-08-12 20:28:29

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@npub1nk4…us2w yes, yes you are

2024-08-12 20:06:39

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@npub1ru7…lr6s not exactly anti fascist just moderately fine people on both sides

2024-08-12 19:53:29

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@npub1ru7…lr6s "moderates" as in "moderately pro-genocide"

2024-08-11 21:40:22

#DystopianHeadlineGenerator
>There’s big money in IVF – but not for the women who hand over their eggs
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/11/theres-big-money-in-ivf-but-not-for-the-women-who-hand-over-their-eggs

2024-08-04 12:35:18

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@npub1jq9…jqnl How many of our current buildings, even the grand ones, will have discoverable archaeological evidence of them in 11,000 years?

2024-07-27 22:39:10

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@npub1lrv…tth9 yeah that's not really "cryptic"

2024-07-25 07:57:20

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 for the fast track please try ops

2024-07-23 20:15:58

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 me, a sophisticated news reader: closes all news websites and retoots 100 people a day on masto, mainly antifa

2024-07-17 19:37:32

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@npub1u3t…c6ug he got that perfect photo, mission accomplished, what else is there to know

2024-06-28 21:35:06

Excellent #MicrosoftExperience on work laptop: letter v on keyboard just stopped working. Damn, try blowing, dusting... must be physical... can still work though right, it's just v. Then c stops working. Now this is serious - no ctrl c ctrl v, no work. More dusting, blowing, poking, jiggling... nothing. It can't be... can it be... well it can't hurt... Restart Windows. Problem fixed.

2024-06-27 19:39:22

coming soon to professional #LinkedIn career endorsements
#enshittification
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/690/276/130/931/220/original/a6bd25ef23f691ff.png

2024-06-26 09:55:58

Who inserts these editorial links above guardian articles ? There is no grey zone about assassinating journalists
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/682/317/388/311/089/original/9815b66101929066.jpg

2024-06-25 04:59:33

Thought experiment: add "-core" to your name and decide what bundle of tastes that denotes

2024-06-24 19:21:37

US car share propaganda from a very different era (not the Hitler obvs, that's everywhere)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/673/215/769/946/516/original/5e6439da2ddd49d1.jpg

2024-06-21 19:32:42

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@npub1u69…qfp9 will ripple through all other orgs they are directors or owners of... Debanking or they have to resign connections

2024-06-06 22:50:23

#StarWars #acolyte
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/572/118/268/934/673/original/5d2952ef08201721.jpeg

2024-06-05 20:21:08

The worst Sim City / Starcraft game you could imagine:
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/565/869/756/700/234/original/5b90a95092f9e5c3.png

2024-06-02 21:49:25

#DystopianHeadlineGenerator
>Homeowners Face Rising Insurance Rates Amid Costly Climate Change Disasters
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/13/climate/insurance-homes-climate-change-weather.html

2024-06-02 21:48:58

#DystopianHeadlineGenerator
>The Spooky Consequences of Pollinator Decline
https://medium.com/the-new-climate/the-spooky-consequences-of-pollinator-decline-3da9ebf15a7a

2024-06-02 21:48:45

Modern #China:
>Officials recruit retirees playing chess outdoors as extra eyes and ears. In the workplace, employers are required to appoint “safety consultants” who report regularly to the police.
>Xi Jinping’s Recipe for Total Control: An Army of Eyes and Ears
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/world/asia/china-surveillance-xi.html

2024-06-01 09:01:44

Very good #RishiSunak photo
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/540/549/226/835/698/original/7c296c833c2e48d8.jpeg

2024-06-01 08:02:39

Really bad optics - have politicians really not learned this very easy lesson?!
>Starmer admits he flew by private jet to clean energy jobs rally in Scotland
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/31/starmer-admits-he-flew-by-private-jet-to-clean-energy-jobs-rally-in-scotland

2024-05-29 11:40:00

Lovely karmic little short story from current issue of Private Eye:
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/524/177/826/530/213/original/b83ad34bf5c4fa1b.jpg

2024-05-27 18:25:26

One common 101-level financial literacy comment is that "your house is not an asset". (I mean, technically wrong because it's an asset, a liability, and a source of costs but we get the point.) In #ProductManagement all new product scope is like this - scope is a liability, guaranteed, while it's not certain if there's any asset in anything you keep adding.

2024-05-21 22:26:22

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 one word, #enshittification

2024-05-20 21:55:55

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@npub1tvq…l6jk move fast and trash everything

2024-05-17 22:38:54

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@npub16hv…sz5u me as I stare at blank patches of earth covered in slugs

2024-05-12 23:07:22

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@npub132h…f594 aha but not with Tory lite. It's the unions that find themselves incompatible...

2024-05-07 23:10:56

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@npub16pg…jv07
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/402/330/413/440/525/original/fd9b39065194c5ae.png

2024-05-07 20:57:04

Sinister-sounding protest at Westminster.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/401/802/696/182/440/original/d19e2347e6bb9e94.jpg

2023-09-16 12:09:02

Um yeah that's not a good future venn diagram...
>As Hurricane Idalia caused flooding, some electric vehicles exposed to saltwater caught fire
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-idalia-electric-car-caught-fire-tesla/

2023-09-16 12:07:26

#DystopianHeadlineGenerator
>DraftKings apologizes for 9/11-themed ‘Never Forget’ parlay bet
https://lite.cnn.com/2023/09/11/business/draftkings-9-11-never-forget-parlay-apology/index.html

2023-09-03 19:22:08

Because of course they did!
>IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23852955/ibm-uk-government-contract-biometric-facial-recognition
#DystopianHeadlineGenerator

2023-09-01 16:45:58

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@npub1k04…mwld he comin'

2023-08-19 21:51:31

Guillotine.
>Theresa Villiers had £70,000 in Shell shares while environment secretary
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/10/theresa-villiers-held-70k-shell-shares-while-environment-secretary

2023-08-19 21:27:50

#DystopianHeadlineGenerator
>Police Are Getting DNA Data from People Who Think They Opted Out - https://theintercept.com/2023/08/18/gedmatch-dna-police-forensic-genetic-genealogy/

2023-08-19 21:27:30

#DystopianHeadlineGenerator
>With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To Them
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/18/with-hr-3557-broadband-monopolies-are-pushing-a-bill-that-would-crush-your-towns-ability-to-stand-up-to-them/

2023-08-19 09:33:21

Imagine being the charitable department at Hormel Foods - nobody ever responds to their emails!
> #Spam donates 5 truckloads of beloved canned meat in response to Maui fire
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/18/business/maui-fire-spam-hormel/index.html

2023-08-13 19:13:31

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@npub1ks7…eg5u @npub1kvn…hm73 force of nature

2023-08-12 17:10:18

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@npub1u24…32pl the future of empty office space!

2023-08-12 11:40:01

The funny/sad thing about this chart is that virtually everything labelled "Late Stage" and "Growth" is actually all still "Early Stage"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/876/452/268/562/262/original/1e5ef74ce4ce7c2b.png

2023-08-06 17:15:23

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@npub1nzm…85c8 what kind of people have fewer