The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Google - The Fish Rots from the Head

Google does a much better job than the other four "horsemen" of the tech world 'keeping its nose clean' (by standards not set by lying conservatives) but it still has some problems, the most prominent of which is its management culture which seems to ignore the will of its stakeholders, employees or the populace at large to do short term, frankly STUPID things like fire diversity experts in AI.

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Apple - The Company Store

Just because Apple built something new and only controls HALF the mobile market place doesn't mean that it should also be able to take a cut of or set ANY price it wants for anything that is used in their "walled" garden.  We also touch on Apple's collaboration with China to maintain the Great Firewall and the horrific conditions of Foxconn warehouses that Apple is "shocked shocked shocked to find gambling in this establishment."

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A Little Every Day

 By Emmit Other

Little things in your love language

Life by a thousand cuts

Show me you love me

And I bask in your kindness and affection

The sexual permutations of your magnificent body

That I love to compose symphonies with my hands with your flesh as the strings

Moans validation that you are there

And your desire is very real

I love you

In all the big and little ways

That show me you are mine

And I am yours

Shermaning the Culture War - Remember the Alamo and Wagner

Today is the anniversary of the Alamo and a lot of left wing and moderate Texans are shocked right now that the Alamo is getting the "Christopher Colombus" treatment.  This podcast is about how cultural elements can be stuck together, like Wagner and Nazis, and how despite the 'positive' framework of the Alamo is going to be respun thanks to MAGA and the acceleration of the culture war from a cold war to a 'hot war' thanks to the far right and Qanon, and how "Nice White Centrists" should get used to it because in a culture war there are casualities.

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20 Minutues of Me Talking Like a Cat

I spend 20 minutes talking like a cat.  About 60 percent of it is me just making generic cat talk noises, 37% cat singing and some random english words or other animals to create the illusion of stimulating conversation.

I dont recommend listening to it.

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Climate Rape

 We can pretend

That the Very Concerned White Men

Being Howler Monkeys 

In the hearings

For the First Native American

Interior Secretary

We can

But it would be moronic 

Stupid

Wrong

Indulgently Ghoulish

These oil and gas companies

Reach into mother Earth

Pull out her blood

Churn it as poison into our skies

Thrust it into our lungs with a pitched fondu fork

Melt the poles for a quick buck

Kill other sapient species on this planet

Those non human brothers who know they are alive

And do not have voice as these toxic agents of filth

Chortle and Harumph and Act Very Concerned

About Jobs for Rural Meth Maga America

Pardon if I dont give a fuck for your Maga feelings

I did not consent to the destruction of our world

For your Goddamned SUV

The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Microsoft - The First Horseman

It all starts somewhere right? The poster child for why all other tech companies are ammoral with a glitz of magic and a dash of some good but mostly rotten to the core all starts with Microsoft that acted as an ACTUAL monopoly and taught the other companies to be greedy in DIFFERENT ways for the laws we havent even invented yet as compared to the 100 year old Sherman Anti Trust act.

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