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   Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:50:43 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

   LB: Damn, Gates vs Bezos is legit hard. They're both so, so awful.

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:55:10 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Glyph

     @glyph Absolutely. Nothing Cook has done recently can really compare to Musk. Part of why single-elimination is a bit silly for anything other than first place.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:55:11 JST Glyph

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     @xgranade I feel like they're basically giving Cook a pass by seeding him against Musk

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:58:55 JST Glyph

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     @xgranade (For me, Bezos wins handily, just because — while he's obviously still a huge net negative for society — Gates does a few good things here and there, but I can't think of anything remotely positive Bezos has done in the last 5 years?)

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:58:55 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @glyph Kind of the logic I used, too, but also... Gates encouraging patenting the COVID vaccine has caused a lot of deaths, too.

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:59:29 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @glyph It's not by far the most serious, but Bezos forming a movie studio so that he could meet actresses after his divorce has a huge enough skeevy factor that it absolutely affected my vote, too.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 02:02:27 JST silverwizard

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     @xgranade @glyph Yeah - a bunch of these real scumbags are going to get through the first round unscathed because far lesser evils are paired against each other, and some of the worst are in head to heads early
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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 03:30:28 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @cthos I have personal reasons for my vote there, but if it weren't for that, yeah... that would have been hard as hell.

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     cthos 🐱 (cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 03:30:29 JST cthos 🐱

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     @xgranade I'm having trouble with Pichai v. Nadella; Both all in on "AI", Pichai fired workers for the mildest protest, Nadella blatantly gives zero cares about labor; both shoving llms in places they don't belong....