How absolutely and entirely unexpected.

Fuck Trump, but this one is a bipartisan effort that has been ongoing since the Clinton administration accelerated the deregulation train. There has also been very little action towards anti-competitive practices for a very long time.

Don’t get suckered into a red vs blue mindset here. This is a battle against corporate and billionaire abuse of power.

EDIT: If I am being honest, I was all onboard the deregulation train back in the nineties. I was young and ignorant. I never imagined the damage it would bring.

Props to Benn Jordan for doing this a year ago on a slightly lower budget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DOd4RLNeT4

My company is one of the top large data management firms specializing in Oracle in the world. What Larry is proposing is impossible with Oracle. He has no understanding of the limitations of his own product. Or he does and is just talking out his ass so he can scam the gullible Trump administration out of billions of dollars.

He didn’t helm Oracle. He ran Oracle Cloud… much worse.

I started using pirated software in 1990, back when my first PC was gifted to me. All software I had was copied because I could not afford jack shit on my own. It is thanks to pirated (and open source) software that I have the career I have, and can afford to spend thousands of dollars on legitimate software, music, movies, books, etc.

Provide product people want and prices they can afford, and they’ll buy them rather than pirate them. Don’t persecute consumers of pirated products and most of them will eventually purchase legally.

As the article title states, unlike Elon Musk, Tesla pulls out.

Is it possible to orgasm from schadenfreude?

Honestly, it sounds like the best idea is to run your own instance. You can do it off of old, trash hardware.

You can pay to get into communick.news or start your own instance.

Nice try CVS

I am sure CVS will not assume the worst when I buy three 12 packs of Magnum XL, two bottles of NyQuil, six cans of Monster Energy and a roll of duct tape.

I left Facebook years ago but I still.have to use its marketplace because up where I live, it is the only way to buy and sell used stuff. I fucking hate that.

I hear what you are saying but the truth is that they will stay, just so they aren’t missing, regardless of ROI. Case in point is Xitter. The numbers clearly state that the level of engagement and sales conversion from Xitter ads is pitiful, especially when compared to Bluesky, yet advertisers still hang in there…just in case.

All that does is make YouTube money while costing money to the advertisers.