I checked my phone’s location settings, and sure enough, Instagram had recently accessed this information.

The average tech-illiterate journo is always going to be dogshit at these “experiments” because they don’t understand how most of the underlying tech works.

Other additions to my feed were harder to explain. … One video featured a woman in a sari frying up South Indian dumplings called kuzhi paniyaram — an obscure dish my mum would make when I was growing up.

Yes, numbnuts. Your precise location, plus a hundred other data points you’re ignorant of, associated the account with your mum. This journo probably doesn’t even know that location access likely means visibility of all the wifi and bluetooth devices in your radius.

If this is late stage cap journalism, in the age of omnipresent surveillance capitalism, it’s time to pack it in. We’re well and truly cooked. Welcome to costco, I love you!

Get outta here with your respect and tolerance, sanity guy.

There really should be a focus on government-level efforts in the EU, to force mobile manufacturers to standardise and open source all firmware sold in its jurisdiction. All OSS mobile OS’s (not on custom OSS hardware) rely on Android solutions because mobile hardware is bespoke, closed source, and non-standard from device to device; the opposite to the PC ecosystem that enabled Linux. The Apple/Android duopoly won’t be broken if mobile hardware vendors can continue creating custom closed-source firmware for their hardware, and there’s simply no reason to allow this anti-competitiveness to continue.

Bait and switch is every tech companies modus operandi. Whether it’s injecting ads, or disabling an entire feature-set, the point is to build your dependence so greatly that they can amp up the value extraction and fuck you as hard as possible, without losing your dollars or attention.

Capitalism… All of it.

There isn’t a single multinational that acts based on ethics or morality.

Then we can virtue signal “never again”, while “donating” bribes to the nazi’s and establishing our new office in nazi-controlled Gaza.

— Unilever

Yup. It’s fucking disgusting — and highlights our narcissism — every time someone tries to reassure us that humanity will likely survive the destruction of the planet.

I don’t care about humanities survival. Look at the beauty we have destroyed, for fucks sake! After doing what we’ve done to this planet, we don’t deserve to survive. We’re lucky hell doesn’t exist.

So banning foreign companies entirely is more ethical than letting them compete and nationalising them when they fail or become too greater risk?

Makes perfect sense!

Humanity is conducting a reckless unplanned terraform of the only place that can sustain us within lightyears, at the very least, and have killed off 70% of the macroscopic biomass in less than a human lifetime, but not to fear… Some nonce cunt on the Internet called you a doomer!

I’m sure billions of mentally-ill talking chimps doing whatever they believe benefits them personally will all magically sort itself out before we destroy enough of the natural processes we depend on.

It’s super surprising America is a fascist dictatorship now, huh? It’s not like there were early indicators or anything…

I just chose to never have kids because there was never any possibility that humanity would overcome our narcissistic greed prior to ecological collapse.

That was 20 years ago. The last decade has only solidified the certainty of collapse in my mind.

Hollywood loves the 1 man army, even when it is on a level of complete insanity.

It’s crazy that WarGames is still one of the most accurate depictions of hacking in cinema, and it’s over 40 years old.

Well, AI therapy is more likely to harm their mental health, up to encouraging suicide (as certain cases have already shown).

Further evidence that Christian evangelicals are trying to destroy the planet and proactively create the end of times… because they’re fucking deeply mentally ill.

Reality has a well known liberal bias.

Conservatism is a dead end death cult predicated on tribal fear and ignorance of the unknown.

Sanction Israel. Force them to pay reparations to rebuild all infra destroyed, and ban Israeli contractors from all any involvement.

They won’t though, because we live in corporate dictatorships that exist to serve and protect capital.

Classic fascism

Could it be his love for dictators and pedophiles?

Sell all your data to the Christian corporate fascist dictatorship, so they can use it to wage psychological and economic warfare on a global scale.

Trumps words imply they told him he could keep it. He could be lying as always, or FIFA gave it to him no diff to the million other bribes capitalists have gifted the shit king… neither would surprise me.

Both are pieces of shit, so either way it’s criminals scratching each other’s backs.