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Zuck apparently made a huge statue of his wife.

That seems like either the behavior of an extremely devoted husband or the behavior of a husband who cheats shamelessly and then gives her showy gifts to "make up for it"

Google lied when they said the pulled it from GNIS because they made the change manually at Trump's direction. They got caught lying because GNIS hadn't updated yet.

> techno-liberal/libertarian STEM side.

John Perry Barlow-esque techno libertarianism is dead.

Modern network state authoritarianism is unrecognizable from the perspective of old-style technolibertarians.

If you had told those people the modern silicon valley was working to build a Panopticon and sell it to the TLAs they would not have believed you!

Why would it imply that it's inaccurate?

It being an ad does not imply that it's a lie.

In fact historically lieing in an ad could get you lawsuits or FTC complaints. I know creatives at agencies who would have to go through legal review to ensure every factual claim they made was true.

Google lied and claimed the change came from the USGS when the USGS metadata hadn't changed.

There exists no mechanism in the US for the president to force a private company to change the name of anything.

They did this to curry favor with the regime. It is naked sycophancy that shows exactly where the leadership of this company stands.

Tech companies spent decades trying to sell themselves as an enlightened class of nobel philosopher kings.

This going all the way back to John Perry Barlow and a utopia in cyberspace to escape the right wing world of Reagan and Thatcher. But it reached its zenith around the "Arab Spring" with the idea that through connecting people the tech companies were giving voice to the voiceless and creating a new world of participatory democracy.

Many of us developed an interest in technology substantially because of the promise they were selling

Yet then, the moment they received the tiniest bit of pushback they all threw in fully and enthusiastically with Trump and are now even facilitating the Right Wing Internationale as we see with the Zuck trying to silence Lula supporters in Brazil.

It's basically the mother of all rug pulls and yeah, people are a little sore

I felt like the applied science video was an ad. He said they sent him the printer to do the project so he at least got the printer free. I didn't hear any other disclosures but the entire back half of the video was talking about the printer

Liberals build police state capacity that fascist then use against them

I honestly think that the whole Memphis/Colossus debacle is what lead to the datacenter backlash. Before then I'd just hear rumblings from people complaining about bitcoin miners, but data centers in general were not seen as an odious land use.

Then Elon goes to Memphis, buys a warehouse and fires up 30 jet turbines in the parking lot, and you start getting reports about the incessant noise and being able to smell it from 5 miles away.

It seems like there's a fundamental problem with realizing other people have agency and if you fuck them hard enough they will fight back.

> Meta (Instagram) certainly pushes one side in India. I am sure of it.

Watching all the techbros trying to crowd the stage to get in the shot with Modi when he went to SF was a precursor to them all crowding around Trump.

Right so instead of enforcing the ECOA the CFPB will be used by this gangster president to go after institutions that wouldn't do business with his criminal associates

Yet another example if the collapsing rule of law in the American klepostate

Again "debanking" describes a lot of the ECOA violations the CFPB was previously investigating.

We'll see who Trump's CFPB actually stands up for. My guess is that it's not going to be "ordinary people payed in crypto" and entirely Jan 6ers, crypto scammers and criminals who paid the president bribes.

This is a good bet especially because his CFPB has already made an administrative rule change indicating that they will not be enforcing the ECOA anymore.