Microsoft's global technology hegemony, their iron grip on desktop and productivity applications, is all rooted in their 20 years of mastery of the deceptive endless complexity of Calendar management and scheduling. I am totally serious. It sounds too simple. That's why it worked
Violations of widespread consumer right to repair, privacy, security, etc that we kludge personally with our technical acumen and privileged tech resources are just problems we are just leaving for the majority of the population as we give the companies responsible more money.
Sesame Street's funkier sibling show, The Electric Company, debuted 50 years ago today. It didn't have any Muppets, but it did co-star Morgan Freeman and had periodic guest appearances from Spider-Man!
The 10,000 workers striking @JohnDeere represent the tension between Stein's Law ("trends that can't continue won't") and Keynes's "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
Deere has been a cursed hot mess for years, but somehow trundled on.
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We rent space from thousands of mega companies every day to do many things we were once able to do as private citizens, and millions of people are shocked when those companies restrict their actions in the most profitable way.
It’s exactly what the Reagan crew wanted.
I don’t know how to get it through peoples’ heads that social media banning or censoring posts is in fact, the most capitalist thing. Primo capitalism. What some think is “cancel culture” is people exercising their freedom to buy or not buy, and companies making money above all.