What’s sad is realising you live in a world where every exaggerated analogy you used to make a point is actually happening:
Having Google in schools is like having McDonalds in nutrition class. (I find out that McDonalds does, in fact, sponsor nutrition classes in US schools.)
Having a surveillance capitalist sponsor a conference on free and open source/human rights is like having an oil company sponsor a climate conference. (Forget sponsoring, turns out head of #Cop28 runs an oil firm.)
Worse is only when concrete-headed decisionmakers want one to literally aid in industrial espionage by virtue of hosting critical workloads on systems of a literal competitor.
Didn't happen to me but a good friend I used to know...
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