anachronist

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[–] anachronist@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago

the issue here is

The issue is Mozilla's McKinsey CEO has decided to break the promise not to sell personal data.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

If Firefox disappears. Mozilla isn't Firefox, it's the organization staffed with ad-tech and McKinsey ghouls and paid by Google to kill Firefox.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago

The equally hilarious thing is that currently they have the "never will" promise in the same codebase as the "definitely will" gated by a "TOU" flag, showing intent to violate the promise.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago

After they censored all the republicans there was nothing new left...

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 12 points 3 months ago

Thanks Obama.

Seriously, the Obama administration loved this guy even though it was obvious to a lot of us that he was a total grifter. The Starship/Artemus plan made no sense but got selected anyway.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If people are wondering why Google is simping to Trump, they have been convicted of being a monopoly and the antitrust action is now in the penalty phase.

The action started under Trump I, was vigorously pursued by Biden's Lena Kahn and the conviction secured. Now all that's left is to decide the penalty, which could range from a strongly written letter to a breakup of the company.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

If it's any consolation, Bomarc was also cancelled.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

Eh, the "savior" in that case would be JD Vance.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

I'm guessing that hyper-defensiveness is probably a survival tactic at Tesla.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 11 points 4 months ago

FDIC wasn't on the hook for much of the SVB deposits because they were over the insurance limit, until they realized that wealthy people were going to lose money and retroactively decided to pony up.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

Things actually broke through there during the Elon/Vivek h1 blowup over Christmas, but that all got cleaned up quickly.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago

The swing if you look at consecutive yougov polls was 8 points. That's a lot in just two weeks!

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