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Companies with tremendous wealth manipulate voters and lobby their representatives. Don’t presume that voters are remotely well-informed of who backs their interests.

Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked an endorsement of Kamala Harris from the New York Times causing the resignations of many within the organization and a similar situation occurred with Bezos and the Washington Post . We have internal issues as well. I agree with what you are saying though. I don’t know what can remedy the apparent degraded integrity of social platforms and major news outlets, but I’m all ears. Federated platforms are compelling but no holy grail and such things founded on ideological extremes like Lemmy (developed by self professed Leninist Marxists) and the stigma around decentralized technologies make them less attractive.

This is only partly true. There are many different factors increasing risk for Alzheimer’s which include environmental triggers that cause inflammation which can include but are not limited to viruses, bacteria, aging, arthritis, surgery, injury, etc

Avoided it until Feb of this year. Frequent antibody and antigen testing. If you’re stationary and isolated like this someone around you failed you.

This is on the nose. I have no clue what the limit is for what you can convince people to surrender, but I don’t think we are even close.

“I didn’t like doing it” doesn’t make this any better. It’s just hammering another nail in the coffin of device ownership.

Too bad jit isn’t working on iOS 17 because of the new personalized developer disk images for debugging.

Also I would argue that forcing everything to wrap WebKit is Apple’s own disrespect for user preference.

TPM, Widevine, Web Environment integrity.