implying Google has customer service

You don’t need to crack anything, pirate your ebooks (I’ve recently had good results from annas-archive.org for fiction books) and send them to kindle as personal documents.

Corporations are not people, no matter what the Supreme Court says.

The only game journalist I trust is James Stephanie Sterling and Denuvo sure as shit isn’t sending them a copy

Cops will never help you

Carbrain is the condition of having your brain so rotted by driving that all you can think of is cars and how to cater to them

carbrain

Think of the poor cluster bomb manufacturers. How will they maximize shareholder value if nobody uses their widely banned weapons that mostly kill civilians?

Traffic is caused by cars. Any affordance made for more cars will only and always make more traffic.

Tradition, one of the worst reasons on earth to do anything.

It will not fix everyone slowing down to a crawl, it will lead to more people driving when they should be taking a train and make traffic worse. This is the only possible result of road widening.

Adding lanes has literally never fixed traffic anywhere ever.

If a corporation puts their crimes inside a computer, they can get away with it for years before anybody figures out how to do anything about it.

From the 1998 paper titled “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page:

Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is “The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention”, a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

Yeah there’s a pretty fundamental conflict of interest in an advertising company controlling most of the world’s browsers.

This means you need to use Firefox, Chrome is crippling adblockers.

Really the whole Trashfuture extended universe is fantastic

There are only two types of software: Free and nonFree

Trashfuture is the best tech podcast

Hell yeah we can even put the bicycles on the trains