I think it is sort of sad that people took this as “valued by your employer”. Not sad for them specifically, but for the state of things. I am sure y’all are valued by your friends and family.

An olive tree. They look cool and I don’t want any amount of consciousness.

This game hits hard.

The only way I can see forward is regulation. Antitrust laws have been suspended for too long. They have to be enforced, and interoperable standards must be fiercely enforced, without loopholes, without exceptions. If leaving Facebook for another social media platform does not have to mean you’ll lose all your connections, thanks to interoperable standards, it will be easier for people to ditch them and harder for them to become monopolies.

Even though he new exactly what they would do beforehand. Being all-knowing.

If I have a lot of rich friends who need IT support and I get exclusive deals with them, making it impossible for experts like you to get freelance deals, and practically force you to work for me for a wage, that’s capitalism. I don’t know anything about IT. I get all the contracts thanks to my connections. You do the job and get a fraction of what you would have gotten if you were able to freelance.

I worked as a conference interpreter and it works exactly like that. We cannot directly contact the clients. There are a few interpreter offices. Clients call them, they call us. They get half the payment for playing telephone.

Interesting…

This is dystopian beyond Black Mirror and disturbingly real at the same time.

Yes. And always will.

Scat fetish means you like scat singing, right? scatman

The text is meh but the picture is beautiful.

Sick analogy bro!

Yep. They should have been arrested.

There’s no quite part anymore. It’s all out in the open. Be it politics, capitalism, police brutality,… you name it.