https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Toxic as in workplace relations or toxic as in environmental effects? Or some other third meaning?

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/understanding-the-lrad-the-sound-cannon-police-are-using-at-protests-and-how-to-protect-yourself-from-it/

I didn’t know what an LRAD was

For anyone who missed the “losers” reference
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/09/03/report-trump-disparaged-us-war-dead-as-losers-suckers/

My take is that bluesky is owned by a corporation making a protocol (AT protocol) to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

See example, Microsoft trying to convert the internet to only run on its own browser. Or Google enticing websites to use AMP, only to entrap those sites to only use Google’s ad services.

When profit drives development, enshittification is not a matter of if, but when.

How is development of ActivityPub protocol funded? Volunteers and their grants, crowdfunding, and enthusiasm, as far as I can tell. @.@ Idk if it’s a reason objectively worth supporting FOSS for, but I love when people pool together for their community’s greater good.

Why make a bluesky account when you have all the different platforms that already run ActivityPub? Want a youtube replacement? Peertube!
For Reddit, Lemmy.
Instagram, Pixelfed.
Twitter, Mastodon.
Interact with all on the same account? Sure!

But with bluesky? Nope.

From the article,

A White House spokesperson, Anna Kelly, referred to Brehm in a statement as an “entitled, rogue bureaucrat” and claimed he has “no authority to defy executive orders by the president of the United States or physically bar his representatives from entering the agencies they run.”

It didn’t sit right with me reading the summary saying “The White House called Brehm an [etc, etc]” without the name of the person who said it.

This is the way