"Google’s leadership is utterly unchastened. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and chief legal officer Kent Walker will get bonuses for what they did… this decision isn’t just bad, it’s virtually a statement that crime pays." @matthewstoller https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-judge-lets-google-get-away-with
plutocrats buy the universities, fund tendentious research into the importance of tolerating plutocracy, along with "activism" along lines that villainize anyone and everyone but them. 1/
the public understandably loses trust in universities. 2/
plutocrats — always willing to serve! — support political movements that blame the universities and tears them to pieces. they finance influencers that make a strong case for tolerating plutocracy and activists along lines that villainize anyone and everyone but them. /fin
so, basically we’re rebooting the “anti-terrorist” Middle East drone assassination program as an “anti-drug-trafficking” extralegal execution program in Latin America and the Caribbean?
@admitsWrongIfProven what do you like to do for not starving?
“As new technologies emerged, Alphabet and its peers bought and swallowed them, in much the same way the Greek god Kronos ate his children to prevent their emergence as rivals.” @BCAppelbaum https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opinion/google-antitrust-ruling-data-business.html
@admitsWrongIfProven ha! i had no idea that “gift” means “poison” in german. that’s delicious!
“All of the articles are now written by AI, except Article I, which has disappeared entirely.” https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/115134945184049052
We hope you enjoy this gift post.
"the fact that Apple/Google exempt Uber and Lyft from the 30% app tax means that they – and they alone – can provide competitive ride-hailing services." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/#i-am-altering-the-deal
“As always, the hardest part of this project, as with any project, was understanding the data model and the business logic, and parsing out those objects correctly. The second-hardest was aligning elements in CSS.” @vicki is a wonderful tech writer. https://vickiboykis.com/2025/01/23/you-can-just-hack-on-atproto/
that it's September and i still haven't done so many things i haven't done feels like a terrible failure.
“Being Donald Trump”
what a fascinating film.
you know they genuinely care if they ask about your use cases.
to understand what’s actually going on you have to play the weird revolution record, but backwards, it’s tricky.
@mnvr (thanks!)
//> using dep "com.softwaremill.ox::core:1.0.0"
import ox.*
@main
def forever =
supervised:
never
A nice indie web search engine, https://marginalia-search.com/
via @mnvr
i really don’t want a superpower or a cheat code. i just want to do a good job.
what if they — Vance and his shadowy backers — arranged the whole thing?