Exactly. This press release is just a convoluted way to advertise how badass their product is.

Don't be mad because you didn't see it.

Also, don't call them "editors"

And their hair is amazing.

Twitter did a much better job with the bots. It did have a tough time because you can't algorithmically police right wing extremism without having it go after American Republican politicians. So right we extremism had to be manually policed. In other words racism and Nazis and whatnot. Musk solution to that problem was to just let the racists and the Nazis take over.

Now ordinarily that would be the company would rapidly go out of business because of lost users. But musk has been pumping money into it, largely with the help of the Saudi royal family. Essentially turning it into a propaganda arm of American billionaires and the Saudi elites. At least if you are consuming content on the platform besides a handful very specific people posting to it.

The real problem is that computers are just too good at figuring out relationships. That's why you can't kick Nazis off your platform using algorithms. A computer will very quickly figure out that the dog whistles the Republicans or whatever your local equivalent is are saying are dog whistles referring to racist or Nazi stuff and it'll go after those dog whistles because the computer knows that when a republican talks about welfare Queens it's no different than a Nazi talking about rounding up black people and gays. The computer knows the dog whistle and you can't program an effective algorithm that doesn't figure it out right quick.

I'm not saying that they can't do it, it's that they can't legally do it.

Ugh. Acrobat actually craps itself on forms now. The check boxes keep disappearing during scrolling, and I have the latest reader.

"The amount of raw materials used is significantly higher meaning the ecological impact is greater."

It isn't and that's also not how it works

No they did not. This story is about how they didn't. Learn to read, coward.

And y'all won't allow socialism. So what's the actual alternative?

Can't have capitalism anymore because the billionaires won't allow it and they have more than enough power and money to do away with it.

And we can't have socialism because well, that's socialism!

So what exactly is the plan?

This isn't about a trademark. It's about a patented specification.

This is true. And the Republicans are the party of Nazis.

I don't fall for clickbait. But it's impossible to ignore the headlines, and sometimes it's fun to read how silly they get, like the UN chief claiming the Earth is boiling.

I apologize for assuming you meant personal criticisms. There's too much of it everywhere, not just slashdot, and I shouldn't assume everyone is doing it.

When slashdot started requiring logins to avoid most of the spambots, it annoyed me, and when I did finally sign up, my handle was my protest. It was amazing back then how many others accused me of hiding behind the anonymous handle.

Trump's trade war that he started so he could offset billionaire tax cuts with tariffs is crashing the economy. Manufacturing is down 20%.

We can't stop the trade war because the only way Trump could ram those billionaire tax cuts through is using the budget process and that required a revenue neutral approach on paper and if you're going to cut 2 trillion dollars in taxes for billionaires you can't really do revenue neutral.

So to get there he made up numbers around the tariffs. If he does away with the tariffs the economy will start to recover but the next budgetary cycle he will lose those tax cuts for billionaires.

As a direct result you need to suck at the fuck down and stop buying so much food. And if you have kids make sure one doll per Christmas.

I think that would require voters to radically change how they vote and who they vote for.

Even before that could happen you would have to completely remake the supreme Court to remove or dilute the six extremely corrupt judges currently running it.

Doing that would most likely require a super majority for the Democrat party in the Senate.

I just don't see voters doing that. Too many of them are concerned with nonsense like trans panic or whether the girl handing you your coffee says Merry Christmas.

Also the Republicans are consistently promising to bring back jobs and to eliminate immigration in order to make the job market better for americans. They are lying but the Democrats don't have an answer for that. Democrats are far too terrified of being called racist to reign in work visa abuses and believe too heavily in the studies showing job growth from immigration. There are alternatives of course to have immigration and a good life for citizens here already but again, voters aren't going to accept those alternatives because they involve too much redistributing of wealth for a society raised on Cold war propaganda...

I honestly cannot think of a solution because basically everyone and everything is working to destroy capitalism. Billionaires have had it with capitalism because they don't want the dependency on consumers and workers anymore. Technology is bearing down hard on capitalism too destroying jobs faster than they can be created. But we don't have any alternative to capitalism Socialism is simply not tenable.

We need to figure out some third Way for everything is going to collapse and I simply don't know of a third way...

Seriously really think about how this headline is written and what it's trying to communicate and what it's trying to make you feel.

Of course Democrats would oppose the deal because it's a massive amount of consolidation and in general they oppose things that would raise prices for consumers. It's a core part of their party platform.

But using the word unravel here implies they're doing something bad. And it takes the focus away from the increased costs to consumers.

The news media is actively manipulating you for a specific purposes. In this case they are actively trying to undermine any attempt to prevent this merger.

As more and more media is owned by billionaires we need to start questioning it more and more often.