Eugene V. Debs' Ghost

So instead of fighting it they changed their profile picture. Might as well post “Down for this sort of thing, I hereby declare Facebook can’t steal my posts” and then never actually do anything to help stop it.

He would have tried to sell your data if he could have. Clippy would use Recall 24/7 if he could have.

How many millions of people have you reached about the importance of consumer rights?

Only my friends, but I don’t then move to CorpoLand, USA because muh free dumbs.

It’s basically saying he was the freedom for ye, not for thee. Texas is where you go when you want to have companies do what they want, as any restrictions on their actions hurts their bottom dollar.

The entire clippy thing baffles me.

Let’s use the mascot of Microsoft, a tech giant who invades every inch that they can, to say we don’t like tech giants!

I don’t think any company that uses AI or scrapes data gives two shits what your avatar is. It’s the equivalent of changing your twitter profile to show support for the victims of something, and then carrying on as usual.

Microsoft would kill for Clippy to be remembered as a friend. Because that just sanewashes their history as a company when clippy was a thing. Yes, please ignore the anti-trust busting in Congress. Please ignore how we made computers worse for the end user by restricting what you can do on your purchased computer.

“Clippy was your friend. Clippy didn’t want to steal your data. Clippy just wanted to help.”

Help infantize the masses with “It looks like you’re writing a document, do you want help with that? Yes, or maybe later?”

This entire clippy thing is just basically free whitewashing and advertising for Microsoft, one of the biggest players in the reasons why people use the avatar.

At least invent something new, if it’s about protecting artists, instead of copying a jpg from a 90s corporate milquetoast mascot.

I trust the reliable and reputable experts of laws of EFF (literally founded to protect digital freedoms) and the ACLU (literally founded to protect the liberties that America tries to stop) then some random person thinking more laws is better.

A more complex but more commonly used program is rsync

rsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive is treated differently than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive which is different than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive/ which is different than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive/

It’s a great tool for making copies onto drives, even servers. But man you have to double check how each folder path is laid out, otherwise it’ll write the files of one folder to the main drive, unorganized.

Comic sans was invented for legibility on CRT screens, and its considered good for younger people to learn the iconography of various Latin characters.

Its just misused since it was standard in Windows and Apple’s OS X, and used in situations that aren’t meant for such a typeface. It’s perfectly good for what it was invented for, its just often incorrectly used by designers who don’t really know how to design well.

The protests against segregation worked, though.

No they worked because of the Black Panthers and Malcolm X threatening the white establishment. California under Ronald Reagan push its first gun control laws because the Black Panthers used their 2nd amendment rights to ensure that black americans could walk without fear, vote, and go eat anywhere they wanted to as per the 14th Amendment.

The media has sanitized the movement to sway people into doing anything but asking nicely to an oppressive state is how you get things done, ignoring that when MLK Jr. was alive they called him a rebel who ruined every town he went into.

Defeatism doesn’t work, but neither does pretending that the narrative the rich tells us is the whole truth.

“What do you mean I’m being arrested? I did a protest that one time!”

Meanwhile: “They can’t arrest all of us. Get the guns.”

The protests against the War in Iraq did nothing. The protests of Trump’s first admin did nothing. The protests against segregation did nothing. Or for women’s rights. Or for queer rights. Or to end slavery. Or to have representation in England about taxes.

Things are only done with the rich and state fears for their lives. The media ignored 50501, just like it did for the protests of Trump the first go around, and against Bush.

If every single person at the 50501 protest helped their neighborhood to establish mutual aid networks and community trust instead of driving for a few hours to a state capitol, Trump’s thugs would have a harder time cracking down on anyone vaguely non-white.

Android may be created by an advertising company but they also give you the ability to run whatever OS you want and strip it of Google’s proprietary software completely. These days you can install OS like Graphene by simply plugging in your phone and clicking buttons in your browser.

That’s like saying since computers come with Windows pre-installed, Microsoft gave you the ability to install Linux. Computers are agnostic to what runs on them, they’re inherently neutral unless made on the deeper level to prohibit side loading. Like a lot of Androids and all iPhones do.

Maybe this will hopefully get people to stop using the garbage platform that enabled Trump and aided a literal genocide because they didn’t hire anyone fluent in the language of the people being exterminated.

I can’t wait for the day Zuckerberg loses all his money and dies alone because he alienated himself from anyone who cared about him.

“Everyone does these things, sometimes it just a slip of the tongue.”

“I’ve never once done a Hitler salute accidentally, nor said the N word in a heated gamer moment.”

“You’re just weird, everyone is a closeted racist like I am!”

Spock would be disappointed in you.

What the hell is happening in this photo?

Is that a crib on a shopping cart? Umbrella vests? Musk wearing Taci-cool wear?

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say this was made up to mock Musk and Israel.