Remember #Patreon set up new on-by-default sharing of your account information with every other Patreon user (and maybe the world)? Remember people posting how to turn it off, because they were using confusing language/dark patterns to try to #trick you into oversharing?
I got the "welcome to the new Patreon" today, and ... they've turned the "Community Profile" setting back on after I deliberately turned it off.
"We gotta get our #engagement numbers up somehow, so the #VCs will give us more #money and maybe help us get to our #IPO, so we can retire #rich".
Ya, by #spamming your users? Jebus, don't they have at least one #adult in the room to ride herd on the ninny #MBAs that make these kinds of #stupid decisions?
Russell Brand criticizes UK officials over censorship in wake of sexual assault claims💩
He took to YouTube on Friday to urge his supporters to follow him on Rumble, a social media platform that he claimed had made “a clear commitment to free speech.”
I'm just glad somebody made him shut up 😂 😂
Of course that strategy never worked against #Trump.
We will have to wait and see if the #Rich prevail again.
“But the analysis discovered one major change: The incomes of the rich grew much faster in countries where tax rates were lowered. Instead of trickling down to the middle class, tax cuts for the rich may not accomplish much more than help the rich keep more of their riches and exacerbate income inequality, the research indicates.”
Real talk: my new flame shoes are awesome, but I struggle with owning more than two pairs of shoes, because growing up that’s all I had: a nice pair and a grungy pair (the old nice pair) ‘cause that’s all my folks could afford. I still feel like I can’t have nice things, not cause I’ll wreck ‘em, but because it’s extravagant.
Anyone else feel this way, or am I the only one?
(Not for nothing, but I got a great deal, which helps a little.)
@willmcgugan@dfl ok after years of "well textual looks so cool I should do something," I'm finally trying to learn textual, starting with a simple gol app. #textual
I hope textual can help me with a little nerdy idea for environmental simulation, a little like darf fortress. Anyhow already a huge thanks for creating #rich and #textual python packages 🙏
Trump’s Fascism Is Only Capitalism Dressed To Look Like Democracy
President Trump’s fascist plan to consolidate power includes taking over independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission.
These agencies are responsible for enforcing antitrust law and consumer protection rules, respectively, and regulating the television and internet industries, respectively.
Tech bros appear to be especially susceptible to brain-rotting contrarianism.
their financial success all too often convinces them that they’re uniquely brilliant
Add to this the fact that great wealth makes it all too easy to surround yourself with people who tell you what you want to hear, validating your belief in your own brilliance
a sort of intellectual version of the emperor’s new clothes
The top 1% of the world burns 29% of all #greenhouse gasses. Meaning if we took that money, those greenhouse gasses would stop being burnt and we could all afford to buy greener products that reduced our own #carbon impacts. If the poorest 1B in the world suddenly doubled their population overnight, its estimated they would only add around 1% more greenhouse gasses. That's how insane calling humans a virus is, That's the message from the #rich convincing us we are all viruses, when they are #cancer cells of the human species killing everything.
#Rich (the #Python library, https://rich.readthedocs.io) has pretty nice-looking output and a wealth of functionality, but am I the only one who thinks that its API is pretty icky? It’s just small details that I don’t like, but they add up.
• strings being formatted BBCode-style
• progress bar tasks being manipulated by passing around int IDs (even though internally they’re objects!)
• Console capturing stdout by default
• the default Progress columns not really suitable for indeterminate tasks
• …
One index of how the #rich are just getting richer & richer is how much they spend on #luxurygoods
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing is since 2010, in the wake of the global financial crisis, which for many UK #workers remains a high-point in income/wealth they have yet to get back to.... spending on luxury goods has doubled!!!
I don't know who these people are but they sure as hell are having a better financial time of the last decade than the rest of us!!
Listened to #bbcradio4 this morning talking about the monstrous comments from the #bankofengland chief #economist that people just need to accept they are now poorer and not try to increase their wages to compensate. Not a single mention of the actual cause of inflation - #corporategreed. The #rich get richer, the #poor can just get poorer it seems. Makes me bloody angry.
Billionaires ‘disappointed’ after superyachts banned from Naples port (www.theguardian.com)
Yacht belonging to world’s second-richest man, Bernard Arnault, falls victim to new size restrictions at Italian city’s Mergellina port
Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality (www.theguardian.com)
Global elite told at London’s Savoy hotel of real risk of ‘civil disruption’ if more is not done to help struggling millions