Reading about this family just reminds me of this:

Son of the Norwegian crown prince. You’ll be unsuprised to learn that he stands accused of many sexual assaults.

Eh what blood got AFCIs in there? Green blood from Siemens and Eaton as far as I can tell

We are melting ice caps and boiling lakes to help high schoolers not learn Spanish.

“hype” is literally media attention

hype
1)
: publicity
especially : promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind
all the hype before the boxing match 

Merriam Webster

Mozilla executives are once again carrying water for Google.

If there is any doubt who they work for, watching them testify in defense of Google’s monopoly should be all you need.

This is liberal cope.

I’ve seen tons of Bernie people from 2016 become Trupists. Several have become full-on groypers. The reason is clear: Bernie got curbstomped and these people are still looking for some other solution because they’re still precarious.

Liberals are still clinging to the basket of deplorables. They want to think that not being a liberal is a moral failing, or a sign of weak breeding or something. They can’t admit that all the punching left they’ve been doing over decades while scolding, preening, etc and sucking up to corporate elites they serve has created the terrifying right-wing moment that we’re in. And they’ll going to be smugly declaring themselves to be on the right side of history as they get thrown into the camps with the rest of us.

EDIT: by the way:

Leor completed her PhD as a Gates Scholar at the Department of Psychology

Yes, that is the “Gates” you’re thinking of.

Also she’s probably a criminal:

Leor was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30

They will edit Google Maps to show Canada and Greenland as part of the US, and Ukraine as part of Russia.

Historically Tesla’s security is as bad as DOGE’s. They got hacked a while back because they had an unsecured kubernetes control plane exposed to the internet. Apparently being owned by a [edit: seagull managing] drug addict isn’t good for opsec.

EDIT: I incorrectly used a medical term to describe Elon’s management style. Sorry everyone.

Don’t worry Tesla diamond hands: Trump will announce a “Strategic TSLA reserve buying scheme.”

Too many villains in our society, not enough heros.

Unironically one of the most surprising thing about the current crop of techbros is how anti-intellectual they are. Back in the day Paul Graham published a smarmy essay about how you shouldn’t have possessions except books. Nowadays, I see so many techbros saying “I hate books” and “I never read.”

It’s weird to have your self identity be both I’m smarter than everyone else and also I don’t read. I really am baffled at how they square that circle.

When I was a kid there was a cartoon called Captain Planet.

The bad guys would build these factories that didn’t seem to produce anything but pollution. Like, they would take in trees and sea creatures or whatever, and the only thing that would come out is smog and green water. It was very on-the-nose.

Bitcoin is a pollution factory.

the issue here is

The issue is Mozilla’s McKinsey CEO has decided to break the promise not to sell personal data.

If Firefox disappears. Mozilla isn’t Firefox, it’s the organization staffed with ad-tech and McKinsey ghouls and paid by Google to kill Firefox.

The equally hilarious thing is that currently they have the “never will” promise in the same codebase as the “definitely will” gated by a “TOU” flag, showing intent to violate the promise.

Well I’m not the ADL but yeah I’d say if, for instance, the NAACP decided that anti-black racism was equal to criticism of, say, Zimbabwe. And as long as a billionaire supported Zimbabwe’s government it’d be fine if he threw the white power sign at the presidential inauguration. That’s basically what you have with the ADL.

I wrote in “Palestine” for the president. It was the only option that wasn’t pro-genocide.

It’s a shame the ADL refused to call him what he is when it mattered: a nazi.

Musk doesn’t fit the ADL’s definition of anti-semite, which is anyone who opposes the State of Israel.