Ariella @ellabellafull@librem.one

It's been interesting to watch, in my lifetime, companies change from responding to competition with, "We need to improve the product for our users." to "We need to trap the users in our burning building and squeeze them for every last dime."

Diablo IV servers are being ddosed which means you cannot play a *single player* campaign because you need to log in to their server to do that

Wait if all the trans girls are at pride who is operating the web servers?!

Reagan’s position from day one was that corporate self-interest would ultimately produce the best solution for the US.

This was more or less the same time that Exxon was beginning their climate change coverup.

As it turns out, relying on "corporate self-interest" just gets you a climate crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/08/exxon-climate-change-1981-climate-denier-funding

This is how humanity becomes extinct.

UK heatwave prompts order to fire up coal plant to meet aircon demand.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/12/uk-heatwave-prompts-order-to-fire-up-coal-plant-to-meet-aircon-demand

#ClimateChaos #GlobalBurning #Coal #FossilFuels

Overheard:

"What’s with all the orange smoke?" asked Piglet.

"Oh, that's Trump's ass getting burned by the Rule of Law,” replied Pooh.

Star Trek: The Next Generation S1E16: When The Bough Breaks. In which the crew encounter the Aldeans, who have abdicated all their decisions to a computer “the Custodian” many hundreds of years ago. The Aldeans do not understand (and cannot maintain) the Custodian, nor any of its rationale in decision making. Yet they entrust it with all their decisions. They are on the brink of extinction, despite their technical prowess.

Poignant satire of chatGPT. First aired… 1991. #StarTrek #chatgpt

Remember back when search engines were somewhat usable? That was nice. #comics