blog! “I don't think you need to be civil to puppy-smashers”
My good friend Jess wrote this a little while ago: The function of a system is its output. If you have dog grooming machine that sometimes smashes puppies and you keep running it, you're in the dog smashing business. If you work for a mass surveillance company that keeps enabling genocide and undermining…
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#google #privacy
Also, you should follow @jessie
She doesn't smash puppies. But she does have some very naughty cats.
@Edent I was once tricked into working in the puppy-smashing business (pharmaceutical toxicology software.) It turned out that nobody wanted to smash puppies any more but the US government made them continue. Our software minimised the number of puppies smashed. The puppy smashers funded anti-puppy-smashing organisations. I suspect there may be US Senators who farm puppies for smashing.
@Edent someone recently described me as "the keeper of a house of cursed puppets" which I enjoyed a lot
@Edent so... The Paradox of Tolerance (puppy smashing edition) ;)
@Edent FYI: I just discovered today (1 Aug 23) that links to X/Twitter will show the post but no longer show the replies/thread if one isn't logged in (or doesn't have an account). Which is an output choice on their part...
@strangebirds yup. I'm sure that will lead to huge monetisation opportunities...
