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chartier

@chartier@toot.cafe

Recovering writer. Aspiring establishment dismantler. Into tech, equity, dogs, photography, trying to find laughter in our broken world.

Content strategist helping devs treat customers like human beings: https://bitandpen.com. Write for myself and you: https://finertech.com. By evening I game @InfiniteHench and https://InfiniteHench.tumblr.com. He/him
#Technology #Apple #art #funny #photography #Chicago #fedi22 #equity #BLM #TransRights

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chartier, to random
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The company that

  • Ran a secret, illegal, manipulative psychological experiment on hundreds of thousands of users
  • Has documented proof of working to put competitors out of business
  • Literally shopped our data around to other companies, including direct messages
  • Conspired to manipulate a presidential election
  • Has been proven to support or at least turn a blind eye to genocide

But ooh hey shiny new app let’s sign up

I don’t understand people. I just fucking don’t.

chartier, to random
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Some positivity.

chartier, to twitter
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He bought #Twitter and has steadily gutted it. The goal is to destroy it because it gave regular people power to organize for change.

Now he’s attacking #Wikipedia because it contains facts and education, which are antithetical to the goals of him and his type.

He might be an idiot in a lot of ways. But he is absolutely doing this with purpose. I worry it’s dangerous to view his actions through any other lens.

chartier, to privacy
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just started making everyone's accounts

*and purchases public by default

Opt out, not in. Likely because they company is run by sociopaths.

You might want to shut this off in your profile. If you know anyone who works in management at DoorDash, consider tossing them into your nearest black hole.

chartier, to twitter
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Bloomberg of all places—you know, a major business publication—is now making a moral case for getting off .

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-05/the-moral-case-for-no-longer-engaging-with-elon-musk-s-x#xj4y7vzkg

chartier, to meta
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#Meta #Threads #Mastodon #JoyOfTech

chartier, to random
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Occasional reminder that Google and Amazon allow police to access your home cameras and doorbells without a warrant: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/26/23279562/arlo-apple-wyze-eufy-google-ring-security-camera-foortage-warrant

chartier, to ai
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They're the same picture

chartier, to random
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When was the last time a $44 billion acquisition lost over two thirds of its value in just over a year, and investors didn’t call for multiple heads to roll? When. WHEN

They wanted to destroy it. Him and all of his authoritarian investors. This was deliberate. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/02/x-twitter-stock-falls-elon-musk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

chartier,
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@OddDev Elon Musk bought Twitter with the help of multiple investors ranging from authoritarian countries (Saudi Arabia, China) to hedge funds.

Twitter, despite its many faults, had become a powerful too for people to organize and fight back against many forms of oppression (Look up the 'Arab Spring' and many other protests)

Most billionaires like Musk, and authoritarian countries like Saudi Arabia and China, do not like when regular people gain power.

They bought Twitter to destroy it.

chartier,
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And this applies doubly so to the tech journalists who keep interviewing his malicious ass and are like "gee wow you've lost a lot of value what do you think you'll do to try and recover this? Hehe awkward emoji"

NOTHING. Nothing you damn sycophant. Get your head out of his ass, then get it out of your own (no I don't understand how the physics work and I don't care), and wake the fuck up to what's happening.

chartier,
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If you still, STILL think this was just a billionaire bumbling around not knowing what he was doing, with authoritarian investors backing him up to the tune of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT, and none of them have tried to fucking assassinate him, never mind just remove him from power (which they haven't), I have a bridge to sell you.

No, I have a gaggle of bridges to sell you.

No, I have an entire planet's worth of gaggles of bridges to sell you.

chartier, to internet
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Many subreddits will go dark on June 12 in protests of Reddit’s egregious changes to its API prices, designed to kill 3rd party apps.

Some plan to stay dark for 48 hours, through June 14.

Please join us all in refusing to visit, use, share, post, comment, think about, sneeze, or fart in ’s general direction.

Like, share, subscribe, repost, and tell strangers on the street. https://reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/

chartier, to random
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Bumper sticker: “Creationists shouldn’t be allowed to use fossil fuels.”

Sounds fair

chartier, to random
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Whistleblower Drops 100 Gigabytes Of Secrets To German News Site: Report

This should be fun. https://jalopnik.com/whistleblower-drops-100-gigabytes-of-tesla-secrets-to-g-1850476542

chartier, to queer
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Happy everyone! Congrats on being fancy.

chartier, to random
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Tech press just regurgitating GM's claims of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto being ‘dangerous,' without examining or challenging it, is borderline journalistic malpractice.

This isn't about safety. GM needs the line to go up, so like too many other car companies, they're expanding into service subscriptions and collecting data.

chartier, to random
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Ok, I am officially starting my job search for gigs in copywriting, content strategy, community management, maybe even something along those lines that intersects with ethical AI.

Freelance or part/full time remote. I have nearly 20 years of experience, mainly working with tech, developers in the Apple community, and a variety of CMSes.

If you know of something I might fit, I’d love to hear about it!

chartier, to random
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and :

Yeah sure, sign me the fuck up. Lol

I try not to speak in absolutes. But if you volunteer for this, you are absolutely not right in the head.

chartier, to ios17
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Absolute game changer for doing all kinds of little stuff faster on devices:

Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Haptic Touch

Set it to Fast

Hold your finger on an image in Photos. Or pull down Control Center, then touch on the connectivity widget, then the WiFi icon to see your available networks. Much faster now.

Absolute game changer.

chartier, to RSS
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Makes me happy to see articles like this again

“The top five RSS readers for keeping up with your news feeds”

https://www.theverge.com/24036427/rss-feed-reader-best

chartier, to tumblr
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Whelp. A former employee and current product person both give weight to the rumor that for Tumblr has been shelved. Sounds like it comes down to finances and not seeing a ton of value coming from it.

It’s a bummer, but not surprising. Tumblr is still very much in the red and this is an expensive project with, at best, little to no direct benefit to the bottom line.

https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2023/tumblr-activitypub-integration/

chartier, to ai
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“So AI is a lying machine made out of crimes that’s destroying the earth and costs a fortune and is being deployed recklessly everywhere without any consideration to your safety. But is it a scam? Yep.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/kpi0nZO9cF

chartier, to ios17
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I appreciate the new, more verbose permission dialog in , when apps ask for access to your data like calendars and contacts.

Notice the user-educational text about how calendar items can contain sensitive data like locations, emails, and notes. Good improvement.

chartier, to mastodon
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Just figured out a big underlying reason for why I wish more companies (yes, even the big ones) would join and : communication.

Yes, I can email a company. But sadly, customer support teams usually don't get the same access to the rest of the company as social media teams do.

Social media folks are much more often brought into meetings, can get the ear of someone actually involved with product, management, etc.

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