That's what they are trying to communicate here, yes. But 8.5 million users didn't need to be told they need to trust the platform, they chose to. As did I with a premium plan to cover MFA and attachments.
Now with business types in charge and a hidden doubling of the fees, that's more than halfway out the window no matter what the website stands for. I'm guessing somebody decided it's time to cash in on the goodwill they built over the past decade.
You really believe that with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel in charge of its initial parameters and training, bar any oversight? That stretches hope too far in my book.
Any new technology is subject to the same problems under capitalism, specifically maximising profits to the detriment of anything else. This is especially bad with centralised tools. An AGI wouldn't just magically take global control.
It's really difficult to recuperate waste heat spread across such a large space in a way that doesn't compromise on cooling effectiveness.
This was probably an artistic choice to make it look like gold rather than any molten metal to the average watcher.
Not to forget about the crypto scams, presidential merchandise, obvious corruption, polymarket bullshit... to name only a handful.
It's not just culture. Most people value community and the well-being of others above amassing wealth (provided their needs are met). The problem is that capitalism indoctrinates us against those values, and even more that it rewards and empowers those who don't share them at all.
That's exactly what the GraphendOS project did. IF you choose to install Google's bullshit, which I did to use Maps and such, they run in a wrapper that makes them usable without the level of system access they typically require.
Cool so there's a new market for age-verified accounts.
That's just not true. He was calling out whites who merely pay lip service to civil rights while putting all their political capital into maintaining a discriminatory status quo.
That is unfortunately the majority, and the frustration at this fact does come through in many of his quotes, and it is well-placed.
Yeah basically the term Liberal in this context is the conservative propaganda team that describes everyone they loathe. What it doesn't describe is any specific agenda or worldview because they utterly lack political education and are highly suspicious of anyone that does.
There are of course white progressives with good politics who truly care for civil rights, in particular those of minorities when their rights are being threatened. This is not the kind of person Malcolm X is talking about. Unfortunately there's no real political representation for that. The only effort put forward by the Democratic party is saying: "At least we're not as bad as the Republicans, so shut up and vote for us or we'll reconsider that position." Those are the liberals he's rightfully calling out in that quote.
Short-term, yes. Maintaining the client integrations is a ton of work. If BW ever breaks selfhosted integrations, it's gonna be a shitshow.