Yaar, matey.

Well played

Yes

FTC is making some awesome moves while it can

Remember they fired their corporate communications and even municipalities mid-project can’t get anyone on the phone. It’s burning down.

That said, I would not be shocked at all to find Elmo with his fascist oligarch mitts on this. That fucker needs a serious regulatory beatdown. (Not an actual, like, punching him in the head beatdown.)

Well that settles that then.

What gave it away?

Dial it back aboot 20 percent there, Squirrelly Dan!

😱

Y’all hear the scary music yet?

Is It, though??

I said a good hypothesis. Not organic, fair-trade, artisanal AI spew.

true?

Hi-oooooooo!

Yes, thank $deity.

Unless they unionize

Ah that’s a shame.

Fine by me. I enjoy a good hypothesis. And I enjoy getting academics all riled up over theory.

Lay on, MacDuff!

I see what you did there. Excellent.

*your*

And how long have you watched Microsoft do what they do? Is it more than five years? 10? 20? 30? Really?

You can genuflect to the Ballmers all you want but their less-sucky products are still the best garbage one of the most profitable businesses in the history of earth can provide.

I’m not talking about UX, or code that doesn’t crash. I’m talking about that and the purpose of it. Good software serves the purpose of the user. Micro$oft software serves Micro$oft primarily - and often exclusively. Then there’s the monopolistic practice they have of buying innovation and crushing it beneath their heel.

Whatever “ignorance” of their products I have has been very deliberately cultivated. Glad you like VS, you’ll benefit Microsoft through it in at least one, or many, ways.

And none of what they do is different from how they’ve always been. Their self-serving greed was on full display from the day Bill Gates started demanding payment for his software that others had been freely sharing with him. Feel free to remain in thrall to them.