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Google and the Open Web

1. Embrace

2. Extend

3. Extinguish <-- we’re here

Embrace

Extend

Extinguish <- Google is here with Android as an open platform

LOL, just as I started using an /e/os phone

Signal is flawless on my Fairphone with /e/os

Double win for right wing thinking: fill the pockets of techbros while white washing the underclass labor force.

Two decades. We’re old

Nobody asked for this

Ban private jets and charter flights. Only people-efficient commercial liners and medical flights.

Ban private and charter flights. Only high volume commercial flights

They said this 2 weeks ago. Forever running out, but never getting there

If only Ireland had decided to build its infrastructure around anything else beyond the personal automobile. Too bad there they chose to make their country with no viable alternatives to driving.

I maintain a small Windows dual boot for taking certification exams (that don’t run on Linux). It’s torture to update it once every 6 months. 3-4 hours requiring multiple reboots.

🙋‍♂️ I moved to Europe last year on a highly skilled migrant visa.

That’s all he ever wanted there. You think he’s trying to liberate people or enhance their quality of life? He isn’t even doing that in the US.

This will be the corporate response.

“Only poors use transit, anyway! In fact, ban pedestrians because they might confuse our delivery robot! Sidewalks should be renamed Delivery Bot Lanes.”

It’s simple: they aren’t safe. They are a high danger to pedestrians, cyclists, and other road users.

They should require a special license and a legitimate need. No pavement princesses allowed.

Because they desperately want to co-opt the state to allow their surveillance capitalism.

General Strike. Don’t work, don’t shop.

Go home, Boris.

Stop voting for right wing parties, folks