It usually is one or the other with these things. My comforting thought is that dictator type people usually fall just as spectacularly as they rise. Eventually they run out of people to support them. Eventually.

he caveat is that Threads is a Meta (Facebook) product and comes with all of the gross things they do with your data.

The closest ones as far as functionality and aesthetics are Bluesky and Threads.

The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis

The full quote is more powerful:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

“Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.”
― Jean Rostand

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

This guy definitely doesn’t understand the words coming out of his mouth.

We’re hitting the other side of the curve where universities have been pumping out “cyber” people for about a decade now and the market is shrinking.

Salaries are going to keep going down as far as I can tell.

Its funny how quickly things go to shit once you push an AI first strategy. Microsoft was finally starting t make decent products again, then they went all in on AI and everything is going to shit again.

Why are people still posting on that platform? It’s really mind blowing to be.

It also bears mentioning that “Town Squares” were traditionally not safe places for marginalized groups or meeting for anti-establishment purposes.