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In an April 3 email to Avelo employees obtained by ProPublica and other publications, CEO Andrew Levy called the deportation contract “too valuable not to pursue”

Just like all the German corporations involved in the Holocaust: “We can’t not participate in industrial-scale murder when there’s money to be made.” Capitalists find it very easy to become Nazis when it will pay.

Capitalism isn’t “when people get paid for working.” And people getting paid for doing a job isn’t the problem highlighted in this post. In any case, there are any number of ways people might be motivated to do something useful.

It also doesn’t fuck up life for everyone else on the planet, which is a boon.

Last week, Trump went so far as to claim that Chinese President Xi Jinping had called the White House to negotiate a deal, another claim that Chinese officials deny.

How hard would it be to prank him by spoofing caller ID and pretending to be Xi?

Bezos is a sniveling coward.

Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable

Yes, this chart shows how it’s not a good result for anyone on the left (though much better than a Conservative government):

Source: National Post

They’ve gotten used to it in different political circumstances. But as people start to see how an authoritarian and vindictive fascist government works with surveillance tech to invade and endanger people’s lives, attitudes to things like always-on cameras may start to shift.

Well at least there are all kinds of checks and balances to prevent big tech and the US Government from abusing this information, right? Thank goodness we have no reason to worry about it being used for political surveillance and identifying who to send to foreign concentration camps, or anything like that.

But think of the constant, total surveillance opportunity for Apple, and how this could help them win favor and contracts from the fascist US government!

In the current US political climate, giving everyone glasses with always-on cameras run by big tech companies seems particularly dangerous.

It’s true. I remember it fondly as a very optimistic year.

Trump’s making the White House as ugly as the people within it.

Yep, for some of us Clippy never went anywhere.

I keep a Windows 2000 machine with Office 97 for distraction-free writing, but I might try this. WordPerfect for DOS was always a pretty relaxing way to write.

Someone who used to wear an onion on his belt, which was the style at the time.

Kidney failure as a consequence of the school bus crash.