Notices by Matthew Merkovich (mattmerk@mastodon.social), page 5

@Fu I can give you sources if you'd like to pay me my research fee.

@LeftistLawyer I think we can all agree that Musk is a major cracker.

Just saw a thread from a pop-sci/pop-consumerism youtuber here on Mastodon whinging about how he doesn't get the "engagement" here that he gets on xzhitter. It was a sizeable multi-part post! And all I could think was, "Just exactly what are you expecting here? For there to be a bunch of people who love consumerism?"

It was the first time I ever thought, "Maybe this space isn't for you."

@user8e8f87c @aral Wrong. He does. Guess you didn’t make it to that last sentence before your knee jerked.

@pettter That's now the American Dream™! Build something to either get bought out for vertical integration into a bigger monopoly, or to have it killed off as unnecessary competition. Then walk away with the sale money!

@Joe_Hill @davidaugust @feld Maher has always been a garbage conservative disguised as a limousine liberal for ages.

New rule: Bill Maher is a scab who should be shunned forthwith and forever.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Already in high rotation over here.

Be a real shame for the studios if the writers, actors, and all the film workers owned the means of production.

Reposting this image of all the alternatives to Adobe products, all of which I have eliminated from my company’s #VFX pipeline.

Premiere editors especially, you don’t need to keep paying Adobe’s protection racket subscription fee any longer!