🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@xarvos No idea, as best I can tell they were on the verge of releasing their new product right before FB entered the scene.

@trinsec Not really, why would it be? it is just a copy of the https://meta.company site. So it clearly isnt a fabrication in terms of meta having written it.

Also I checked the whois and meta.company has been registered by the same person for a while now since 2014-03-18 00:49:06 UTC

@trinsec that said i would expect that facebook bought every domain TLD with meta in it that was open. So seems unlike the domain was bought after facebook changed its name.

@trinsec yea i have been unable to verify it

@stux not surprising in the least. Normally they are the ones owning a trademark and then suing everyone out of existance. now the tables are turned and if they can just ignore the same sort of trademark they would abuse it would be very telling

@stux yea they own the domain name, not the trademark.

Riddle of the day: What is the one thing that no matter how much you push it, it will always remain stationary.

Apparently #facebook doesnt own the #meta trademark but is using it anyway... I really hope this ends with them looking like a fool.

@shoshin I would hate to see you go personally. I have enjoyed our interactions.

@shoshin To be fair while I supported the view the image had a racist lean to it I did say in our private discussion that it was crossing the line, but only by a toe since I can see why someone passing it casually might not pick up on the racism. That said I think its good the image was removed, as it does violate the rule against racism, I also want to say the tone and strictness of the warming was a bit harsh. In the past you havent, as far as I know, exhibited much racism in your posts (please someone correct me if I missed it). So I probably would have handled it a bit more gently and not have threatened a ban so quickly.

Long story short, I could see it as something someone would post without seeing the racism to it. The jewish as merchant sterotype isnt too horrible (its not an insult to be a merchant), but equating Muslims with bombers is where it really crossed the line for me.

@khird

@sofia

School can be good when you do it on your terms and arent there for the degree. Go to the classes that only have good professors and on topics you feel you need the most help with. Skip all the junk you dont need just to get a degree, particularly classes with shitty professors.

@Hyolobrika

@pganssle

If you cant find any such tool it would be easy enough to roll your own with a few lines in a script. Wouldnt be a very long script but to do it efficient might get a little technical. Probably examples out there though.

@skunksarebetter

@twotwenty It really does :)

#QAnon is just astrology for meth heads.

@watson Maybe if we keep saying "insurrection" enough times it will become true...

@msh I forwarded it to the owner of koyu. They are generally good about this stuff so I have no doubt the bot will be banned soon.

@Hyolobrika

school tends to kill that drive for many sadly.

@sofia