Notices by Shrig 🐌 (shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website), page 3

The key thinking I take away from what he's going for on this one is that "I'm going to build my own theme park with blackjack and hookers" will fix anything in tech because these sorts of people think they know best on everything. Spoilers: They literally don't, and when they do they only serve their own personal cultural norms anyway, fuck the rest right?

The solution to massive social networks that can be taken over, ran by massive cunts, become unfathomably capitalist hellscapes, breeding grounds for fascism blah blah blah, isn't "I'll built my own, and you'll love it because I am right, now I just need 30 million" or whatever, it's "we can work towards creating an ungovernable number of alternatives and seize the means of production"

Hmm...

There needs to be more and smaller instances x

Well actually, the best social network is toilet graffiti

A lot of tech people chomping at the bit to go full feral with the bigotry. The reins are off on Monday, won't be pretty.
2025 will be the year of the techbro, every genre of reply guy imaginable, all sledgehammered in with the subtlety of unchecked hyper-capitalism and fascism rippling across the planet because apparently everyone online should suffer whatever the fuck is going on in the USA too.
Love each other, and crucially support each other x

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The natural conclusion to having to continually leave digital communication platforms as they become more openly hostile and exploitative and ran by Bond Villain levels of oligarch is to go to the the pub instead and become the next generation of That Pub Weirdo imo x

Oh.

@eff you're flogging a dead horse by pointing out "oh yeah Meta is still bad actually oops" and suggesting what they must/should/could do as if they will ever in our lifetimes do it beyond protecting their bottom line and reputation in the press with performative and empty gestures.
Stop wasting your energy with this, apologise fully and meaningfully for your repeated naivety and trust for Meta and finally encourage its abandonment and suffocation while elevating its community owned alternatives

When a YouTuber says "let us know what you think down below", what they mean by "down below" is "hell", which incidentally is also the comments section

Electronic Fence Fuckers

A massively over-powerful global communication platform which touches basically every person on earth's social life with a saturated and problematic history of causing overtly dangerous situations removes their (what was always only a performative press relations stunt anyway) fact checkers.
The EFF: I applaud this, actually. This is a move in the right direction. Just what the world needs more of. Like. 👍
https://mastodon.social/@eff/113789440544631242

If I was the EFF I'd simply call for the whole fucking lot to be dismantled asap and encourage as many decentralised social spaces as humanly possible (which, gasp! Would involve free speech and increased social autonomy!) but what do I know? I'm not a fuckin nerd

Sending my love to all the followers reading this that work in retail. I used to do that, you're def in my thoughts this time of year 🫂

If I see "I asked ChatGTP..." in an article I'm immediately closing it, fyi. Doesn't matter how interested I am in the topic of the article, that's a massive "I'm wasting my time here" from me

Thank God it's Friday

Sorry, I only date criminals

I don't do Spotify/Apple Music/Whatever the fuck, best I can do ya is a dusty old last.fm profile: https://www.last.fm/user/shrig32

These new M4 Mac mini's are really mini. Designed to bin and buy a new one before long too, I'm sure.