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Cake day: April 11th, 2024

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  • We can’t really just vote for better representatives anymore because the corporations have captured control of the political process with PACs.

    The only candidates that can even have a chance of running a winning campaign are the ones with the biggest pockets, and those individuals tend to be candidates that work solely in their business donors interests.

    We need to make a systemic change to allow for the system to proceed as it was designed as the games been twisted. Repealing Citizens United and outlawing/reforming lobbying laws would help, but corporations and the politicians guilty of abusing the system wouldn’t ever want it to change.

    Their livelihoods depend on it.






  • It’s a thinly veiled attempt by Meta to silence their critics and to divert attention from the organizations that are suing Meta, mainly the school districts and also state attorney generals, as their platforms are accused of facilitating abuse of children and intentionally creating addictive products.

    If this succeeds, they will have a vast new data source to exploit and even more users they can not so subtly nudge to their other products, placing them in harms way in the name of profit.

    They will inevitably encourage the students whose classrooms they overtake to support Facebook and Instagram, replenishing their depleting user base in the interest of satisfying their advertisers who are also suing their platforms for seemingly becoming overrun by bot activity.

    Health and education is not the goal, but data acquisition and user growth is. They’ve already announced they will be taking “anonymous” usage data from their Oculus headsets, which I wholly believe is a lie as Meta has shown time and time again, is their modus operandi.

    Personalized data is far more valuable than anonymous data, and they will secretly choose that route as they have in the past. The data collected is without a doubt, being used to train their AI systems.