They’re not the same. Android lockdown is a temporary lock screen state. iOS lockdown is a full OS hardening, affects the way the phone operates full-time.

Also, you know, making the rich people pay even the same taxes WE pay, let alone the 50-90% marginal rates from decades ago, when the country was strong.

Space X/X AI/Twitter (soon to include Tesla in a giant Xterfuck) will soar to all new market caps.

Everyone I saw talking about this said it was likely fake.

I think my TV is like 32" and 720p from 2012 or so. It’s fine.

Before that I had a projector which was fun sometimes but mostly too big for the room. Cool to take psychedelics and run a visualizer while it was pointed along the floor at you. You could feel the fractals on your skin. I don’t do that anymore, so a 32" TV is fine.

For those who don’t speak Finnish…

Although one day even the fascists will realize there has to be income, no one’s been collecting from the plebs, so they’ll go back through… getting audited for multiple past years at once isn’t fun, trust and believe. So be as honest as your AI will make you.

Edit: OK i’m going to change this to be more productive.

Lumping the USA into a single character is a huge mistake showing ignorance of the size and diversity of the country.

About 38% of us want massive change in how things are done.

About 38% want things to get much worse.

And the rest don’t think politics applies to them.

So what exactly are the 38% supposed to do? Engage in civil war with their neighbors? The fronts between blue/red are near infinite. They are the property lines dividing city blocks, rural tracts. There is no way to have that war.

“Notice of class-action settlement: your cash payout has arrived, 83¢ has been deposited on a Meta giftcard in your name.”

This is why you can’t subscribe to Spotify or Netflix or a ton of other services through the app store apps, they aren’t gonna give up 30% revenue. Patreon is going to be the same eventually, creators will take it as a last resort, but they’ll absolutely scream “go to the website to donate to me,” or maybe even disable iOS app contributions.

Kind of like how the nonprofits I’ve been part of have to pay a CC processing fee which varies by processor and card, so they don’t accept AMEX or Discover cards, and then stress “please send us a check instead,” and if a donation is over a certain amount, they won’t accept it by CC at all. If you’re going to donate $30k or $100k or more, no fucking way are we giving thousands of dollars to a processor. Write us a check, we’ll accept it in person, and take a photo of us fellating you, suitable for framing.

Suburban/stripmall decline. Hey that mud is gross, pave it. Hey I don’t want to mow that, pave it. Hey everyone is already driving over that, pave it.

Now that cement is super expensive you don’t see it as much, but for a while, the answer to any problem was “pave that sumbitch.”

Well if I can’t trust Meta with my information, who CAN I trust

Well when it’s a popular software package, swarms of “hackers” with increasingly better AI tools will be attacking it, foreign governments will be attacking it, especially if it’s used by governments. So security will be a serious, constant concern.

Open source will both help and hinder that.

Really a nonprofit consortium should be formed with paid engineers who focus on this 100%. But that nonprofit will be infiltrated and corrupted… and so on and so forth.

Humanity is a corrupting force.

Facebook, Insta, YouTube. I know they’re fun and entertaining. But they’re all destroying your mental health. I promise you’ll be happier if you pull the plug on all of them. Delete your account. Touch grass. Volunteer, talk to your neighbors, start a social club.

I retire PCs at the college I work at. They get stacked in the basement waiting on an inventory/recycling procedure that will never happen because we’re a satellite campus and the basement is the tomb of technology. Went down there the other day to bring a retired PC up to replace a very old lab PC that died. The HD had been removed by a colleague - fine, that’s procedure - and then I realized all the RAM had been stripped out. Dozens and dozens of PCs with nary a stick. “If you’re selling that RAM, I want in on it” I told him. He laughed nervously and said no, but wouldn’t say where it all was.

I am not kidding, I want halfsies…

They just murdered another ICE watcher, I am seeing videos of it happen out of Minnesota friends who are watchers, but it’s not on the news yet or even here.

There’s a contract, modifying it or using it as not intended (or not using it at all) can make them request the unit back, if you don’t comply they could take you to court. I doubt that happens but the threat is there.

Copilot for Copilot you mean? Now with extra Copilot.