@c6d0060b@e61ebc0a it's a good thing most people appreciate on this platform. V2 of the graphic (which didn't take long to make, I note from an earlier comment) could celebrate that too :)
@baa7002e it's funny to have a major #transit #outage and #cn #cnrail at root of the issue not even getting much attention... #Toronto
Good thing #bikeTO has my back
The latest @b92dcc07 is full of so many fantastic points. I've forwarded this a half dozen ways with seperate pull quotes for each friend
"For a lot of people, the analysis stops here. "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product." Google locks in users and sells them to advertisers, who are their co-conspirators in a scheme to screw the rest of us.
But that's not right. For one thing, paying for a product doesn't mean you won't be the product. Apple charges a thousand bucks for an iPhone and then nonconsensually spies on every iOS user in order to target ads to them (and lies about it):
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar
John Deere charges six figures for its tractors, then runs a grift that blocks farmers from fixing their own machines, and then uses their control over repair to silence farmers who complain about it:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/31/dealers-choice/#be-a-shame-if-something-were-to-happen-to-it "
All from: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics
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