Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@koherecoWatchdog Neither system has anything to do with #1A.
@arossp Their fair share is what they'd pay if you remove all the nonsense workarounds and shell companies and loopholes and "unrealized gains" they use to avoid paying.
@koherecoWatchdog @chelliepingree @RepDonBeyer I think it's probably less "respect" and more "pandering to the base". Just like Republicans on Truth Social.
@arossp An interesting thread. I wonder how much is framing, though. Is it about them paying *higher* taxes, or about them paying their fair share in taxes?
Does it really matter if they donate $100k to a fine charity, if they skip out on their taxes and cut their workforce to and cost millions to an unemployment system they avoid paying for?
@w7voa Like in every other war Russia has fought? Shocking.
@jmproffitt @mmasnick So then the question becomes: do we know any other billionaires rich and stupid enough to buy other innovation-stifling market leaders like Amazon?
Musk, xenophobia, erasure, Neil de Grasse Tyson
@ami @mekkaokereke "Later" maybe wouldn't even be a bad thing, if it meant we got more of our grid off fossil fuels so EVs weren't just burning carbon indirectly.
Hey @freemo, I'm getting a lot of "Rate limited" popups, FYI.
@annmlipton Of course not. Like every other egomaniac on the planet, he wants to be in charge of success and blame others for failure. His empire is slowly toppling. Of course he wants a patsy.
@MortenBay Again, I don't think we'll get there. People won't stand for it. They'll opt out. There are already dystopian movies warning about this and people are already demanding online privacy laws to prevent much more benign forms of online tracking.
@MortenBay The battery life and storage are temporary problems.
The external assumption that a device capable of recording is recording constantly is just good common sense/opsec.
@MortenBay I disagree with that characterization. Many people are deeply uncomfortable with being recorded in public by strangers, especially folks from marginalized communities.
That it has become accepted in a few places, I believe, is not an indicator of our willingness for widespread acceptance.
And the UK and China have very different cultures than America. It's like saying they banned guns so we can too.
@MortenBay There's a big difference between a private property owner recording their property and a person recording everyone everywhere they go. Both legally and socially.
Especially in two-party states.
@ericbrookfield @caseynewton Not necessarily. Replies are part of the conversation. The question is whether you want to discuss something or broadcast it to your audience. This site is designed for the former.
@caseynewton Even when "used for good" it was still a means of projecting to an audience instead of engaging in a conversation, which seems antithetical to this platform.
Louis Ingenthron
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Elon Musk suspended Linette Lopez from Twitter after years of critical reporting on his companies.
In a new piece, she lays out Elon Musk’s playbook of exploiting workers while building a cult following. These tactics aren’t new. Musk has always been this way, regardless of what former boosters like Kara Swisher want you to believe. They were just happy to ignore it for access while journalists like Lopez did the work.
@GreenFire @georgelakoff Lmao, this is a terrible take. Tesla didn't need to advertise because it already has great brand awareness. And buying Twitter has only gotten it negative publicity.
And even if both of those weren't true, $44B would still be an absurd amount to spend on marketing.
@MortenBay @georgelakoff Pretty sure that won't happen, for social reasons. (A) People don't like interacting with others who could be recording them. And (B) look at how popular the incredibly useful Bluetooth earpieces are. Social norms have relegated them to douchebags.
@ThinkingSapien @cathygellis @daphnehk Exactly. Musk is so busy alternating between shitposting and damage control from shitposting that he doesn't have any time left to properly oversee a company, much less three (if he even had the skills to do so in the first place, which is questionable).
@ihrf I understand that. And criticizing is 100% right.
However, calling for "Justice" to defend a legal right that has no bearing on this situation whatsoever is very much in the wrong.
Elon isn't breaking any laws by burning $44B to the ground.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
