toastykitten

Recode Zuckerberg interview with Kara Swisher.
Bad Facts Make Bad Laws (PDF link) - Cindy Cohn - EFF arguing against platform (Cloudflare/Facebook/Google) censorship, arguing that the censorship rules harm marginalized people the most. Does not address what should happen when a platform enables genocide.
Vox Zuckerberg interview with Ezra Klein - I almost threw something at my phone when listening to this.

Anyway, I'm still working out what I think about the issues. One thing I am clear on, though, the longer billionaires like Zuckerberg and Musk talk in public, the more convinced I am that all that money and ego turns them into morons.

I'm not shutting down my Facebook account because some of my closest friends only communicate through Messenger. But to deal, I just installed the Mozilla Facebook container extension.

I have a lot of mixed feelings. On the one hand, this is the umpteenth time Facebook has been raked over the coals in public about their carelessness, and it still feels like nothing's going to change anyway. On the other hand, I willingly hand over way more personal information to Google directly, and who knows what they do with that info.

I kind of wonder about how delusional Facebook is. Do they realize that even if everyone uses them, no one actually trusts them? Like, who's going to actually buy the Facebook version of Alexa or Google Home? 

Facebook debuts a "snooze" button, where you can mute someone for 30 days. Oh, so a central cyber gathering space that includes everyone you've ever known might not be all rainbows and unicorns?

Batman 66 gets a museum exhibit. I wish they would do this for Wonder Woman.

I'm starting to read comics again. So far, it's incomplete, because I'm limited by the graphic novels at the library, and they never seem to have the complete version of something. I read Black Panther #2, the one written by Ta Nehisi Coates, and Black Widow: No More Secrets, which apparently ships Nat & Bucky (?!). I used to hate reading American comics - hated the art, thought the panels were too busy and had too much in the way of words getting in the way of the art, etc. Current comics art is gorgeous, and takes a lot of their cues from manga, and has color, which manga generally didn't. The coloring really makes a big difference, I think.