Oh god, i know thats not possible and here come the startups to pitch it.

Paywall, also don’t care so i’ll just take the good vibes and be off. Ta.

Drank the kook-aid.

Yeah i mistyped it, but it’s staying.

Wow. That’s super sad.

Goddamn microsoft. Get it together.

Very good. My TL;DR take:

The American and German approach of letting incumbents build monopolies, allowing wasteful overbuild, and refusing to regulate natural monopolies is often called a ‘free market.’

But it’s not free. And it’s not a market.

True capitalism requires competition. But infrastructure is a natural monopoly. If you treat it like a regular consumer product, you don’t get competition. You get waste, or you get a monopoly.

The Swiss model understands this. They built the infrastructure once, as a shared, neutral asset, and then let the market compete on the services that run over it.

That’s not anti-capitalist. It’s actually better capitalism. It directs competition to where it adds value, not to where it destroys it.

The free market doesn’t mean letting powerful incumbents do whatever they want. It means creating the conditions where genuine competition can thrive.

While I agree in principle, the user must understand that all web searches (in general, not just in this case) are going to be tracked unless explicit steps are taken.

Spotlight searching the web is stupid, though.

If you leave it on by default, yeah.

Go through your settings, people. One-by-one.

Me too. cold brew + Oat/soy/whatever = latte. A little simple sugar for the chef’s kiss

85% or more of the cybersecurity market is about, and because of, Windows.

Srs, if Windows wasn’t used at all, cybersecurity would be as big an industry as Etsy.

Windows tries to mimic Unix for all its “important” features, but it isn’t. It’s a surveillance slop sundae on top of decades of organic growth on top of bad decisions based on DOS. And it’s made them one of the richest companies in the history of the world.

From https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/doctor-jesus-heals-donnys-dementia

here’s the deal with this ‘Door Dash Granny.’ her name is Sharon Simmons, and she got flown into DC from her home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to appear in Donny’s dog-and-pony show.

she’s actually got a pretty grim story. this poor woman had to take up being a DoorDash driver in order to make ends meet after her husband ran up medical bills due to treatment for cancer.

the lesson we’re supposed to take away from this bogus White House photo-op is that because Big Benevolent Dear Leader got rid of taxes on tips, Sharon Simmons was able to save eleven grand on her tax bill — and yay, Donny, you’re the hero of the working class!

the real lesson here is that we live in a shithole country where any of us could get thrown into bankruptcy in a hot second because of a medical emergency — and if it happens to you, you’re expected to try to make ends meet by working your ass off in a shitty piecemeal gig-economy job.

Simmons, a grandmother of 10, began working as a Dasher in 2022 to earn income while maintaining a flexible schedule. Since then, she has completed more than 14,000 deliveries.

fourteen thousand deliveries in three-plus years — that sounds fucking idyllic, doesn’t it? this woman has ten grandchildren. she should be enjoying their company, not racing around town trying to beat the clock so she can make as many deliveries as possible and come home exhausted.

what in the actual fuck?

but instead of doing anything meaningful to solve the problem of crushing medical debt, Donny stages some useless stunt and preens for the camera. problem solved, Sharon — now get the fuck out of Dear Leader’s sight.

NYT reports on Iranian NYT

The people don’t read no more. Plus click click click click click $$$$

This brings me to what is for my money the funniest part of this whole not-actually-funny thing: a sentence from the journalist Peter Baker’s New York Times article about the question of Trump’s brain. (Emphasis mine.)

While the country has had presidents whose capacity came under question before, most recently the octogenarian Joseph R. Biden Jr. as he aged demonstrably before the public’s eyes, never in modern times has the stability of a president been so publicly and forensically debated—and with such profound consequences.

As the New Yorker has its famed two-step, this is a classic Timesmaneuver: carefully sidestepping the tricky commitments of describing reality—What if somebody suspects that I think things???—and reporting only that people have opinions. “Forensically debated”! Signs and wonders.

Ah yes, truly that is the news. Not that Donald Trump is demented and out of touch with reality; nor that by absolutely any definition of “stability” he is at best mid-collapse right now; nor that multiple times per day, he says and does things that are plainly and utterly disqualifying in the position he holds. The story is that people are debating whether any of that is true.

A little while after deleting the post from his social account, Trump staged a press event at the White House in which he had two bags of McDonald’s food delivered to him by a lady wearing a red T-shirt with the words “Doordash Grandma” on the front. Look man, all I can do is describe these things. I am not responsible for the world being like this.

They staged this stunt to promote ‘no tax on tips’. Which is what everyone is all interested to discuss obviously. Why “grandma” is next to a company logo on the press conference (i mean, Tesla, yeah obvs but doordash?) . . . Unknown.

Like lots of people don’t cry at all, pretty much ever, and the ‘problem’ part of it is that we’re socialized to “be strong” (meaning silent) and not be ‘full of feelings’ etc., etc., and as a result lots of people never work out or resolve issues that they need to. So they get stuck, or sick, or both.

Talk therapy, as an example, gets people to say words that mean their feelings and sort of short-circuit the socialization programming to actually figure out why or how they’re feeling a certain way.

In the past it’s been pretty much synonymous with Being A Man (a.k.a. Dumb), but there’s been progress.

It’s a real problem.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

But i thought Brexit proved to be the genius idea we all knew it was

Neat!

YAY!