Yeah, the privacy aspect of EFF doesn't align with social media in general IMHO.
Are they trying to "earn" some $ from social media? That's a silly goal, but might be a nice side benefit.
It's worse than that, because with proper skill, it isn't even a copy/pasta. It is one app that posts to everything all at once. Even the social media places that didn't make the list.
Buffer, Hootsuite, Metricool, Robopost or Later
One could probably tweak posts for each platform with AI effectively.
Here is the list they are staying with
Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube
So, where did the audience go? It didn't go to the existing places from 20-8 years ago. And I doubt it went to the two new kids.
What this tells me is that their audience is aging/dying off, and the younger generations aren't there in numbers. This requires little to no political inferences to understand. It is easy to mistake one for the other.
Yes, I am a Boomer. I don't rely upon AI to tell me what to think. I am also a Libertarian and interested in Privacy and been a long time proponent of Open Source. Maybe figure out what intersections to the younger generations align and go there.
The cost of maintaining a presence on X or just about any other top-20 social media platform isn't much. Even if every posts gets "only" 1000 impressions per year it's still cheap marketing.
There is a good reason to leave X though: If posting on X makes you look bad, then leave.
But don't use "it's not worth our time/money/resources" as an excuse, not unless or impressions-per-year drop well below current levels.
* No reasonable RAM upgrade path
* No reasonable storage upgrade path
* for some models, difficulty replacing battery
I would love to get something like the Apple Neo laptop if I knew I could extend its life to 8-10 years by upgrading hardware at the 4-5 year mark at a reasonable cost and replace the battery as needed at a reasonable cost.
Without those options, I'm looking at non-Apple hardware, which means a non-Apple OS and not being in the Apple ecosystem and not giving Apple the revenue stream that goes with being in that ecosystem.
I hope someone at Apple sees this and lets the right people know that their decisions to make hardware upgrades difficult or impossible is costing them future revenue.
At least one of the late-1980s/early-1990s Mac desktops and at least one IBM* enterprise-fleet-targeted desktop were designed for very fast in-the-field repair by corporate IT staff. By repair I mean "unscrew the case, replace the faulty component, screw the case back together, and get the customer back up and running ASAP."
I personally saw computers from both companies that had ONE screw, not counting customer-installed security screws/locking devices. Everything else was held in place by latches, friction, or other easy-to-manipulate no-tools-required connections. You could literally replace any one of the major components with less than 5 minutes of downtime once you'd done it a few times. Floppy drive, check, hard drive, check, power supply, check, motherboard, check, add-in boards, check, various cables, check, case, check. OK replacing the case might take 10 minutes but only because it requires moving all of the other components.
* IBM sold off its PC computing line to Lenovo in the 1990s or 2000s.
The future is to use AI to screen code before it is published to the world.
For code written or influenced by an AI, have a different, independently-developed AI screen it for security bugs.
They were named after people who did some pretty unsavory things during their times in power.
Personally, I fail to see how molesting little girls could be any part of a successful business model
Doing unspeakably evil acts is part of many "successful business models." Whether it's mafia-style threats of "pay me or I will rape/kill your family," eliminate-your-competition/opponent mass-murders-and-take-their-property-as-spoils like you see in some wars ("ethnic cleansing" anyone?), or actually selling the "work product" of crimes (e.g. selling stolen goods or filming a rape and selling the photographs), there is money to be made from acts of evil.
Wait until people are dead long enough for most skeletons to come out of the closet before naming a building after someone.
640 days after death ought to be enough for most people.
The linked article is dated March 31, 2026.
He came to see innovation arising not from like-minded or similarly trained people conversing with each other, but from a friction of ideas and approaches. It meant hiring researchers who had different personalities and favored a range of experimental angles.
Intellectual diversity makes for better teams.
This is just about what venue the FTC needs to use to prosecute its case.
Cars with Chinese Communist Party spyware or the means to remotely install it are not.
Net result: I'll welcome a Chinese build of a totally disconnected,* manually controlled car if it met US safety standards and was cost-effective to own and operate. "Totally disconnected" pretty much rules out modern EVs.
* obviously connecting to the power grid is allowed, and I'll want to add an aftermarket AM/FM terrestrial radio.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
