At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems. Apple is now corrosive to democracy itself, and we have to get smarter about the way these forces interact:
So Apple is censoring another ICE-spotting app, and I think we need to talk about the coverage, as much as Apple's groveling pre-compliance.
@npub1psar...j5uh broke this, specifically @Joseph Cox, and unlike some previous coverage, it includes this:
This is a good start! Much better than the coverage re: the ICE Block takedown last week. Mentioning that the web as an alternative opens the door to discussing why this is happening: Apple wants stuff from the govt
Every time I watch a team of hard-working folks burn months on a React upgrade, I'm reminded of how thoroughly the JS-Industrial-Complex gaslit us.
You know who hasn't slogged through constant breaking change migrations? Web Components developers. New runtimes drop *every month*...and it's *fine*.
One of these just arrived, and it's now my new writing machine...and while I wish the screen was *slightly* higher res and wish I could get it in 32GB config, it's otherwise incredible:
(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)
