Rae Patterson

@dryak @anderseknert Obligatory xkcd

@grumpydad@infosec.exchange @randahl@mastodon.social Poisoning the algorithm is honourable work, and don't let anyone tell you different.

@Ann1944@social.vivaldi.net The purpose of a system is what it does.

@maxleibman Also, if rich people are using the services, they are invested in the quality of those services

@abhayakara @dangillmor I realize you are "just asking questions" but if Comcast was paying Tate to spread his poison with the money I sent them for their services, then yes, I would support dropping Comcast. But it is well past reductio ad absurdum to claim that I should boycott anything that Tate favours. Substack is using the fees paid to them to literally pay Nazis for Nazi content.

@davidzipper There is an unwritten and never-discussed rule followed by the owners of these large SUVs and outsize pickup trucks, that the owner's life is worth more than several lives of other drivers (and their children), and if those other drivers valued their lives, they would get their own SUVs, so they are asking for it, really.

@courtcan@mastodon.social If he gets angry at you, you can say "Whoa buddy, big feelings!"

@sakhavi @tante Every tool can be used as a weapon, but not every weapon can also be used as a tool, especially not as a tool for good, and most especially not for net good.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Absolute Enable Right Click is brilliant, once you realize that you have to enable it for each site you want to override https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/absolute-enable-right-click/

@abhayakara @dangillmor I don't think there's any evidence that Substack is paying kickbacks to Tate and his ilk, not that I've seen anyway, but they are definitely enabling him for profit, likely more than they are profiting from the writers you are reading. I do boycott Amazon and Nestle and Florida orange juice (still), because I do not want my money to go toward supporting them no matter the quality of their products. Of course everyone draws that line in a different place.