@_anparisi Anywhere you find internet access but no financial mobility, you will find threat actors, persistent ones, ones with nothing to loose. At it’s core, it works like any other form of organized crime.
There's been a LOT about why RFK Jr is a terrible pick, but I want to focus on something that is very concerning to me, but no one seems to be mentioning.
He appeals to a widespread, common-sense idea that the problem with our food is that it has "lots of artificial ingredients". Get the artificial ingredients out — no chemical additives! no food dyes! no high fructose corn syrup! — and our health problems magically resolve.
This is 100% incorrect, and fundamentally misunderstands the problems with our food system.
@defnotbeka I’m inclined to agree here. IME, a lot of those features work in the corp context because of the huge amount of research resources they have to refine and tune; Resources an open source dev likely doesn’t have, resulting in a shoddier product
@BobLovesData I mean, it’s not doing any harm really, it’s just painful. Like, normally stuff that painful leaves bruises or cuts but with spicy food, I end up clearing my sinuses.
@Tyler_A_Harper@ParkerMolloy@ContraPoints I think here, the message that “power” is somehow “intrinsically corrupting” has made a lot of leftists suspicious of doing anything actually successful
Today's Crowdstrike outage reminded me of one of my favorite stories about a single point of failure
And it involves one of the most fascinating buildings in the US, the windowless AT&T Long Lines building at 33 Thomas Street in Tribeca, Manhattan 🧵