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that's why thiel had to shut them down. they were exposing the tech bro grifter culture very early.
September 29, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Tech has changed my life, allowed me to be the person I am today, yet I've watched over the last 10 years as these products have soured from world-changing to society-ruining, their executives doing so deliberately and being celebrated by the press for doing so.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...
I want my fucking tech industry back. Maybe you think I sound insane, but technology means a lot to me. It’s the way that I speak to most of my friends. It’s my lifeline when I’m hurting or when those close to me hurt, and it’s the way I am able to make a living and be a creative — something I only was able to become because of technology. Social networks have been a huge part of me being able to become a functional human being, and you can judge me for that all you want, but you are a coward and a hypocrite for doing so, and you’re going to read to the end of this blog anyway. Really, seriously, honestly — the Ed Zitron you know was and is only possible because of my deep connection to technology. This was how I made friends. This was how I got the confidence to meet real people. This was how I started my company. This was how I met the people closest to me, people I love with all my heart. I was only able to do any of this because I was able to get on the computer. I am bombastic and frankly a little much today, and was the literal opposite less than 5 years ago, and I was even more reserved 10 years before that. Technology allowed me to find a way to be human on my terms, in ways that I don’t think are possible anymore because most of the interconnecting fabric that I used has been interfered with by bad actors and the rest with slop and SEO. I think there are far more people out there like me than will admit to it. I think more people miss the past, or at least realize now what they lost. There was a time this didn’t suck, when it wasn’t a struggle to do basic things, when my world was not a constant war with my god damn apps, when things weren’t necessarily turn-key but my phone wasn’t randomly burning through half of its battery life in an hour and a half because one app on the App Store is poorly configured. I swear to god, back in like, 2019, Zoom just fucking connected. I remember things being better, and on top of that, I see how much better things … It’s not enough to have your data, your work, your art, your posts, your friends, the things you’ve taken photos of, and the things you’ve searched for. The industry must have that of your children, and their children, as early as possible, even if it means helping them cheat on their homework so that they too can live a life where they’ve skipped having any responsibility or learning anything about the world other than how one can extract as much as possible without having to give anything in return. Big tech is sociopathic and directionless, swinging wildly to try and find new ways to drag any kind of interaction out of a customer they’ve grown to loathe for their unwillingness to be more profitable. Decades of powerful Big Tech Business Idiots have chased out true value-creation in Silicon Valley in favour of growth economics, sending edict after edict down to the markets and the media about what’s going to be “hot” next, inventing business trends rather than actual solutions to problems. After all, that might involve — eugh! — experiencing the real world rather than authoring a new version of it every few years. Apple barely escapes the void because its principle value proposition has, on some level, always been “our stuff works.” The problem is that Apple needs to grow, and thus its devices are slowly but surely becoming mired in sludge. The App Store is an abomination, your iPhone settings look like a fucking Escher painting, and in its desperation to follow the pack it shoved Apple Intelligence out the door — one of the most invasive and annoying pieces of software to ever grace a computer. Apple’s willingness to do this shows that it’s rotten just like the rest of them — it's just better at hiding it. After all, look at the way in which it flaunted court orders telling it to open up third-party payments as a means of squeezing every penny out of the App Store. Loathsome. And it still ended up losing.
June 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
icylatte.bsky.social
In like 2015 he said he was going to blow up a paedophile ring wide open that involved all these high profile politicians, judges, cabinet members and spies. He relied on mostly 2 sources and a website called "Exaro News". It all fell apart.
www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
Ep 4 - 60 Minutes Investigation - Media Watch
In 2015, 60 minutes investigated claims of a VIP paedophile ring in Britain, calling it the country's 'biggest political scandal,' more than two years later the explosive allegations have unravelled
www.abc.net.au
June 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
icylatte.bsky.social
he is a useful idiot with a big platform.
June 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
icylatte.bsky.social
People from Australia have been saying he has went off the rails since his 60 minutes fiasco there.
June 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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France is tackling a crypto kidnapping wave denting its image and a potential presidential contender
For-ransom hostage takings targeting cryptocurrency entrepreneurs in France are blowing up into a political issue for the government of President Emmanuel Macron and particularly for one of his minist...
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May 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
icylatte.bsky.social
@eva.bsky.world is this true
May 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
icylatte.bsky.social
many are saying this
May 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
icylatte.bsky.social
Are you a thicc unit?
May 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
icylatte.bsky.social
Is this what you look like?
May 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM