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catch me on season fifteen of the blox where i preach and if invited, i will testify to every moment in my life, business, and recreational life where microsoft has personally fucked us all

ftc, dm me

I’m holding off on the names and dates and whatnot because I still hold out real hope that we can clean our own house without bringing in the videography team from the fucking Kardashian show. It’s really bad now and it would be a lot worse before I wrote some tell-all and angled for an hour or two with Rogan.

But if you’ve reached your moment? I trust you have your reasons. I can make an educated guess that satisfies me you know what you’re doing.

We all die. What advantage or suffering in the next few decades could be worth our human agency, dignity, and uniqueness via principles and codes? I’ll lose much of that when I void my bowels at death.

Not before, and not for this.

If you abruptly find yourself on a grassy field be of good cheer because you’re in Elysium and you’re already dead.

jeez, was not expecting that in a HN comment. O_o... thank you?

Real patriots of Silicon Valley love what this place can be at its best, we want it to self-police and generally use its effectively incalculable power for the unambiguous greater good. We want it to recover from this weird seizure.

The current crop of leadership is so vulgar and creatively bankrupt and insular and numb that they will not honor anything but a credible threat of direct personal loss of power or prestige and anyone who really loves HN or The Internet wants that threat to be assembled and never used.

We were here before it was especially lucrative, we’re still here now that it’s precarious and not all that lucrative and not all that much fun anymore because we know that when the bad element ages out, we’ll still be here because we fucking love doing this.

I'm not a Silicon Valley guy, but sign me up

b7r6@b7r6.net

Billionaires should be afraid of their employees.

i just went on the show to promote my tiny little startup and that was the same week microsoft pulled their co-pilot recall stunt

that’s the trifecta of intersection of moral bankruptcy of cybersecurity, ai, and software licensing

i asked my fellow contestants if that’s what they thought they were buying when they “bought” windows

nobody took their side that week. i believe this ftc enactment is also related to that week.

i don’t have a tell all, i have a solution that can out compete them, given a Window of opportunity.

this is me cleaning house.

I have my own grinding war for survival to worry about so I can’t write blank checks.

But I know broadly what you’re talking about, I hate it too, and if you have an ask and I agree that it’s ethically good, I will do what I can to be a resource at your disposal.

I’m a big fan of anyone around here doing anything that represents a personal risk or sacrifice for an idea more interesting than self-advantage.

b7r6@b7r6.net

What's the point of doing something like this so close to a radical change in Administration? Most of these people are going to lose their jobs soon when loyalty tests are introduced for federal government workers, so they're not going to be able to finish what they started. These people should be working on polishing their resumes and finding new jobs, not working on antitrust actions.

I don’t stop doing my job because I’m going on holiday for 4 years in a couple of months.

More seriously it’s probably a good idea to kick things off that should be done so that you can call corruption later when they magically get even worse.

I think that's a pretty good call right there, hmm, I have a bunch of stuff that I would like to do but would piss off powerful people so I hold off - but wait, I'm getting fired soon because the incoming team is corrupt and incompetent, huh, well let's get this ball rolling and leave it for them to undo.

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