"To make the digital space controlled by Meta, Alphabet, Apple, and Amazon a battlefield is to accept fighting underwater with our hands tied and weights on our feet. But it is in their arrogant ignorance that their vulnerabilities lie. These giants do indeed have feet of clay that must be knocked down, and their ideology is central to this: They despise material reality, reject the collective and the social as realities, and are submerged in fiction. Moving away from their preferred playing field, social media, may be one of the first steps toward their demise." This is what we're fighting for. From https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-tech-authoritarianism
Yay! my notes are posting again. I've typed up several over the past few weeks/months but nothing went through my browser-based client; I was doing some ghetto-ass copy and pasting to my phone to post on primal. turns out I just had to clear the cookies for nostrudel on my browser. I only did this because yesterday it wouldn't even load my feed. Ah well, all's well that ends well.
Bridgewater is fully out of China? If it hadn't been for Dalio's ego they might have done so before losing however many billions they ended up losing. Dalio learned that you can't trust communists, wow, genius, after he had been gagging on CCP talking points for decades. This episode teaches us all we need to learn: don't trust capitalists or oligarchs, especially those who fancy themselves intellectuals.