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Howard, you ignorant slut.

Reminds me of this scene from The Wiz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-UJR2tip3c

CW: Metaphors

You could say that about almost anything. They’re stunningly stupid people.

I mean, it’d have to be pretty impressively fucked up to outdo Brexit. So far, it is!

Pop Quiz: What does Cambridge Analytica have to do with both?

Palantir is straight-up evil.

If you’re on facebook, you’re part of the problem.

Because they don’t have enough money

Lol. What a maroon.

Sweet. I’ve been boycotting micro$quash for a couple of decades now.

It’s been shittier for longer, if that helps.

Me, in 2005: Why would anyone use a service that scans your personal email for things to sell you?

Me 20 years later: . . so. . . tired

So ordered.

Unfair Use

Remember WeWork? It’s the ultimate example of putting tech-coloured lipstick on a pig.

Daaaaaaamn

That’s re-victimization. People do people stuff, like using social networks.

Giving one’s real name and real information to a social network who is intending to track everything one does or says and the people one does or says it with is idiocy and it has never not been.

People do people stuff like not listening to people who have constantly been telling them not to push the button.

People stuff also includes continuing to use these horror networks for years after knowing full well they shouldn’t.

In July 2022, Twitter confirmed that someone had exploited the vulnerability before it could be fixed. “After reviewing a sample of the data offered for sale, we confirmed that a malicious party had taken advantage of the problem before it was addressed,” Twitter stated at the time.

lol

So the ridiculously overvalued pump-and-dump paid for the real assets that he then destroyed but will bail out with the magical cauldron of venture capital so everything’s just fine.

Can’t see any problems here.

I wonder if they’ll ever notice this place. Like. Before a big election or something.