Men tantamount to war criminals.

I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to the computer, and the more I learn about both their intentions and actions the more certain I am that they are unrepentant and that their greed will never be sated. I have watched them take the things that made me human — social networking, digital communities, apps, and the other connecting fabric of our digital lives — and turned them into devices of torture, profitable mechanisms of abuse, and find it disgusting how many reporters seem to believe it's their responsibility to thank them and explain why it's good this is happening to their readers.

Edward Zitron: Never Forgive Them (2024-12-16)

Radicalized.

The weapon is lethal when it's a pistol and when it's an insurance company. The insurance company merely serves as an accountability sink, a layer of indirection that lets a murder happen without any person being the technical murderer: [...]

Cory Dotorow: Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024)

Flatter, flatter, flatter.

Fantastisch, wunderschön und bunt.

Team Scheisse: Schmetterling

Servenience.

So-called “stickiness” or “customer loyalty” are euphemisms for transforming convenience into sunk cost fallacies.

Aaron Bieber: Own Your Everything (2023-11-09)

Comparing Cs.

Do you believe that Climate Change is bigger than for example the Corona virus? [...]

Name me the top ten things that you sacrificed for Corona. [...]

Name me the top ten things you have sacrificed for Climate Change. [...]

Andri Snær Magnason in The Europeans podcast: Using grandma to make people cry about climate change (2024-10-03)