LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@social.cleverlibre.org

got this hat from goodwill, I think I want to screen print a single goofy word on the front. something with a silly cadence that will make people wonder why I have that word on a hat. please send suggestions

@Secftblgirl Spotify started their business by pirating music and putting it on their service – that's what they call stealing in the music industry. How were they punished for this? They weren't, big record executives took a cut of Spotify's stock in exchange for streams, like with Lady Gaga, who only made one hundred dollars during her biggest year when she had multiple millions of streams, the rest was paid in shares of Spotify that were given to these massive record executives. Am I surprised that Spotify is now using the microphone to record our every spoken word? No, this is typically malignant behavior that I've come to expect from every data company. However it's good that I know what to tell people who use Spotify. The app itself has had microphone permissions for a long time, I wouldn't be surprised if they were doing this the whole time.

Kenilworth Bakery specialty: Latte in a Doughnut ☕️+🍩=❤️

# Drawing 3D illusions on paper

[Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7QdPOlCl0j5Oz7qBS3FuQ) of a guy drawing hundreds(!) of interesting drawings including many 3D illusions on a sheet of paper. Very interesting. Tested, works .

Inspired by [this toot](https://qoto.org/@peterdrake/105635821358497997).

Tackling the Monopoly Problem

There was a time when people who were exploring computational technology saw it as the path toward decentralization and freedom worldwide. What we have ended up with, instead, is a world that is increasingly centralized, subject to surveillance, and unfree. How did that come to be? In a keynote at the online 2021 linux.conf.au event, Cory Doctorow gave his view of this problem and named its source: monopoly.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/844102/a23d1543b5a55cae/

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#CoryDoctorow #Pluralistic #Monopoly #Decentralisation #Centralisation #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceState #LinuxConfAU #LWN

I feel like I should point out that the more expensive version of the #pinephone costs less than #GME does right now.
Just saying: if you like sticking it to the people running everything then removing one of the most powerful tools of censorship and control in free countries from your life is something to think about.

@GNUxeava Wirth's Law strikes yet again.