I'm really glad that you're enjoying Linux, and I'm doubly glad that your hospital found a solution to keep their system running smoothly!
Facebook has always been first and foremost an advertising platform, and they went where the money is. Some of that's the automated algorithms, some of that is deliberate corporate informationeering.
I offer some thoughts on the decline and fall of the internet here, and I think it's germane to this discussion: https://michaelhjenkins.substack.com/p/visions-of-a-post-apocalyptic-internet?r=26iex9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
"Imaginary numbers"? Sounds like that DC fuzzy math . . .
Everything is going according to plan.
Stay tuned, as I have thoughts and ideas on that in an upcoming article.
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As with our dentention centers on the US/Mexico border, we'll only see select portions of this after they've "addressed the issues" innate to putting people in holding facilities.
Cody Doctorow wrote a short story about a group of newbie hackers doing just that.
I'm just gonna leave this right here:
We live in the Attention Age and the world runs to a large degree on emotions. This is fine, everything's fine.
Enshittification comes for all things eventually. "You'll own nothing and like it."
And it's only gonna get worse from here.
I knew he had said problematic shit, but this is disturbing.