Read it so you don’t have to: It’s a troll.

Block and move on.

The CEO of Skype would agree

It’s really not about revenge. It’s about taking back power from corporations and giving it to the people. Right now, political power is with the highest bidder and these companies know it.

They are using the money from advertising to lobby and buy politicians, which is what stops us from having sensible regulations for social media. Taking away that revenue stream inhibits their ability to do this, so it’s a win for the people

Except many advertisers don’t want to be associated with damaging things. So this has an impact on advertising revenue for social media companies and they would absolutely view this as a blow to their public image.

We need to break them up, and legislate against their practices for the future but this is something that can happen right away and hit them in their pockets

Is there a link to the video that doesn’t give the daily mail a click?

The great thing about the prolonged Musk meltdown is that he always responds by doubling down. So the more he gets ridiculed, the more he throws these ridiculous tantrums. Won’t be long until we’re in the drug-fueled endgame

The average person: Spotify sucks and is making me hate them even more

Shareholders seeing layoffs followed by AI replacements for those workers and then repeated price hikes: 🤑

According to her statement, they were still trying to strike a deal with her within days of the release.

I can’t imagine anything more shady than trying to strike a deal with someone for their likeness, all the while preparing to use it anyway and later denying it had anything to do with them

Oh it’s far more useful than that. It’s the shiny new thing that’s going to make a lot of money for shareholders

Because he looks like a smug bastard

The snake eating its own tail

The techno-authoritarian Curtis Yarvin-type crowd have been around for a while. We can laugh them off or ignore them, but their biggest believers are billionaire man-children in the Valley and that will undoubtedly come to bear fruit in horrific ways.

There are people out there still using Windows XP. Not everyone will jump because Microsoft is trying to force their hand

Spotify is also a record label now. They probably need an entire division devoted just to the marketing and strategy needed to make that successful

People think that because you can build a Spotify clone with two sticks and a heroku subscription it must not need a lot of people to work on. It’s what Elon said about Twitter prior to buying it and gutting all the features.

These apps are first and foremost businesses with legal, HR, and all sorts of other roles before you get to product. And the products are so mature, so complex, that you need dozens of teams to cover the entire thing

This kind of thing is going to ruin so many lives before society learns to adapt to the new normal.

But it’s tough because who wouldn’t want a school board to err on the side of caution if there was an audio leak of a principle saying worrying racist shit? Or worse, what if someone made one look like a paedo? Every parent want them out before asking questions, just to be safe

This isn’t an anti-trust case, it’s just anti-China posturing and lobbying from Meta and friends bearing fruit. Google and Meta will fight for the users and their monopolies will grow even more menacingly bloated

As an Illmatic fan who’s jaded with the streaming landscape, I was ready for some interesting insights into how things have changed but this article was pointless. It was celebrating Illmatic, but the actual argument about technology made no sense.

People aren’t excited for Beyonce/Taylor Swift’s albums to drop because they’re albums. They’re excited to get a large collection of new music. People will always want a collection of music from their favourite artists to drop, and call it whatever you want but that’s all an album is. And Illmatic is one of my favourites of all time, but it’s such a weird and arbitrary place to stop ‘good albums’ at. So many classic albums have come out since 1994, even within hip-hop if you want to be that narrow

Not saying actors going unpaid is okay, but one of these things is a sex crime and should absolutely be illegal