Notices by Mike (VK1OMG) 🏴‍☠️ 🦀 (mike_k@mstdn.social)

It’s Doctorow, but I liked

“This isn't capitalism – it's gangsterism. It's a system that will annihilate trillions of dollars in value to put billions of dollars in the pockets of Trump and a few of his cronies – at the expense of all the other rich people.”

The chicken coop!

https://i.redd.it/qks4nobvg7ga1.png

Hm, that sucks as a share… this is better, from the previous.

"Instead of aiming for the root of these harms, the concentrated power at the heart of the platform monopoly, the mass surveillance that is the engine of this business model... we see efforts almost to extend this surveillance and this monitoring and give governments a piece of it." – Meredith Whittaker, Signal, ex Google, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/20/meredith-walker-signal-boss-government-encryption-laws

@RustyBertrand 2024, what a year huh

Cory Doctorow on walled gardens.