Yup, fucking captured it!

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I listened to the whole audiobook in a day - one of the best books I’ve purchased recently. As someone who has been very much into the techno-futurists over the last 15 years, I would suggest this book, along with Manu Saadia’s Trekonomics for a much needed reality-check.

Love it! I’ve saved a copy, because I think it’ll make future explanations a lot easier. Thanks!

Ah, I missed that detall! https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Yeah agreed - anything not FOSS is just setting up another bad situation waiting to happen

I wrote a comment explaining Tariffs on a Fox News YouTube video a few weeks back, and the entire reply chain was people arguing with eachother about how tariffs work because “Trump said it’s a tax on other countries, so that’s how they work”

Meanwhile the Trump administration has asked Australian academics to justify that their US-funded research lines up with Conservative values

These people idolize Henry Ford, so they should double check the history on how he tried and failed spectacularly at the same thing: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon

In other news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Appreciate it! The last audiobook I picked up from Libro is Kara Swisher’s “Burn Book”. Not sure if it’s your thing, but was totally worth it for understanding more personal context around the big Tech CEOs from the last 25 years.

Really hope Jesus makes his comeback via an appearance on RuPaul. The bible does say it will be unexpected.

I highly recommend Kara Swisher’s recent book “Burn Book” for insights into the Tech lads like Brin, etc, as she’s known most of them since the 90s.

Really helps contextualize the crazy cocktail of engineering/commercial power with general naivety a lot of these guys have going.

I would just like to push back and say that the Internet was an open public project, and it has helped countless people across the world. Every single problematic tech that people are pointing to at the moment are closed-source commercial projects.

That is Capitalism at work.

For sure, thanks! https://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm723891

If you’re into audiobooks, I strongly recommend libro.fm instead - it’s all DRM free downloads, so you never lose access.

Definitely switch to alternatives from Amazon. They treat their authors abhorrently too. I’ve personally been super happy with libro.fm for Audiobooks (essentially Audible, but you can download the audiobooks DRM-free)

At least (to my knowledge) the Signal messages are decrypted on the client end, so buying the company doesn’t give them automatic access to messages.

Having said that, I’m sure a hostile new owner could update the app to decrypt and then send the messages as plaintext to the servers if they wanted…

As someone who is outside the US, the best I can do is share important information with people inside the US.

I would be very surprised if any of our US-Allied governments call out Trump. I would be overjoyed, but surprised.

Use the online chat :)