Probably doesn’t help that all fish are now chock full of PFAS

backdoors for thee, none for me

I see a connection between elon’s increasingly ‘wacky’ persona with the start of the cozy financial relationship he has with saudi arabia. imo, he’s serving as a captured asset for oil giants to further their influence and interests in the west, in a similar vein to all the recent acquisitions of popular US/UK sports teams by the middle east.

The ‘eccentric’ behavior, to me, is 100% intentional. A layer of security is built when your rivals, regulators, and the general public are unable to predict your next move. A ‘white noise’ is created: for every midnight decision to change your company logo to dogecoin, intentional and sinister actions slip thru, such as the banning of twitter in turkey during their recent elections.

This strategy of wrapping yourself in layers of ambiguity was explored by Adam Curtis in his doc Hypernormalization, describing how this has been the central tactic Putin has used in Russia for decades.

I use Inoreader, it provides a great way to quickly get up to speed on the news, without relying on ‘human curators’ on reddit or twitter. I’ve been able to add lemmy and kbin community feeds no problem, and it currently serves as my ‘front page’, until lemmy itself becomes more stable.

Auto-de-duplication and word filters help me keep my sanity and avoid the constant musk-worship on tech sites.

The adoption of starlink by the military is the last nail in the coffin for ground based astronomy.