Re:Apple Is Taking on Apples in a Weird Trademark Battle
by hanselot on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:24AM
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Welcome to Earth: Where the NEWS is our barometer for determining how far we are from 1984.
It's articles like these that impose a sense of surreal prescience. I remember experiencing this same feeling of surreal awe back in the days I was still trying to convince my employer that WFH would be unavoidable.
The CXO (I put X because I can't remember what made up executive role they had at the time) still shrugged it off as "Just a flu".
I remember sitting at a coffee shop at the beach one night with a close friend talking about the general state of things and how it felt crazy to know that soon things will be different forever in ways we can't begin to imagine.
This title has a similar feeling to it. The only difference is the enemy now is not some invisible force of nature, but humanmade horrors we impose upon ourselves.
Anarchy as a concept always sounded insane, but look at what the people who have the most money in the world do with it. They don't give a fuck about the issues that are actually important. They will release a PR and keep up appearances while renting out server farms of bots to subdue critical opinion, and subvert any efforts to point these things out by creating fanatics.
Now we are the ones in need of fanatics. People like RMS, who called these things from the start.
We are at the point where we need a revolution, but we won't get one, because the last humans that haven't been enslaved by comfort are falling every day, and people are remarkably adept at being satisfied living in squalor if the previous iteration was just slightly worse.
Its difficult to imagine how the world will look in this future where only a single school of thought is permitted.
It's articles like these that impose a sense of surreal prescience. I remember experiencing this same feeling of surreal awe back in the days I was still trying to convince my employer that WFH would be unavoidable. The CXO (I put X because I can't remember what made up executive role they had at the time) still shrugged it off as "Just a flu".
I remember sitting at a coffee shop at the beach one night with a close friend talking about the general state of things and how it felt crazy to know that soon things will be different forever in ways we can't begin to imagine.
This title has a similar feeling to it. The only difference is the enemy now is not some invisible force of nature, but humanmade horrors we impose upon ourselves.
Anarchy as a concept always sounded insane, but look at what the people who have the most money in the world do with it. They don't give a fuck about the issues that are actually important. They will release a PR and keep up appearances while renting out server farms of bots to subdue critical opinion, and subvert any efforts to point these things out by creating fanatics.
Now we are the ones in need of fanatics. People like RMS, who called these things from the start.
We are at the point where we need a revolution, but we won't get one, because the last humans that haven't been enslaved by comfort are falling every day, and people are remarkably adept at being satisfied living in squalor if the previous iteration was just slightly worse.
Its difficult to imagine how the world will look in this future where only a single school of thought is permitted.