If you replace the government with nothing, you get nothing. If you replace the government with private sector, you get shit quality and less service at a higher cost.

So, take your pick.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhh!!! -The Who (1971)

Get thee to The Pirate Bay and send your direct donations on the side.

You’re not fucked if you have The Pirate Bay. :-)

Well, they’ve also been maintaining the software since 2005. They said why they’re closing shop, so why not take their words at face value? They have no obvious reason to lie.

Many of us have started and maintained projects and then moved on when our lives changed. That is just normal.

No, it isn’t the whole point. The point is to curate our own news. And a separate question is how to browse the results. If you use two devices, you might want a server side solution. Maybe. There are many reasonable setups.

Maybe I’m not understand what you’re asking. You want to build a list of feeds to follow, right? To avoid single point failure or censorship, right?

So stop asking for one link, and start telling us what topics you care about. There is no point in a non-custom list of RSS feeds. You need to start the process yourself.

It’s not ironic, is it? The creators of RSS knew exactly what they were trying to create, as did RSS users, and what the bad alternatives would be like. If you are new to the show, welcome!

That’s only partly true. Even if Trump had been locked up, and the courts hadn’t said he can do whatever he wants, there could still be someone almost the same as him doing a ton of bad stuff right now.

Of course it is a disaster when the judicial branch fails, but we need to keep that in context of the complete lack of limits on campaign financing, of money coming from corporations and billionaires getting into politics, and how that guarantees the system will be corrupt in short order. In other words, Citizens United was one of the big steps towards the present disaster in the US. You simply cannot have a stable government when the ultra-rich have all of the power. And that, pushes us back to the destruction of anti-monopoly legislation in the '80s and '90s. Which is to say, the bad shit happening now was predicted by many, involves many aspects of government, and took a long time to unfold.

Oh, so you’re trying to say that Tim is so greedy that he doesn’t have values at all, other than his greed? That’s an interesting position, but I think it makes him sound even worse than the previous one.

Well yeah, if they cook the books like Private Equity always does, they can suck some profit out of it while destroying the company. And then later blame it on AI, why not? … Shit, the New York Times and the Washington Post would probably roll with that story.

You say “security” I say “a bug that won’t let me log in”. Which is it?

And of course the motto should have been, “Don’t do evil.” That would have been a respectable goal. But it wasn’t, because even back then they only wanted to be slightly better than Microsoft.

Of course they know that. It’s about power and money. After all, they already have a security program that filters out malware. If we believe their stated reasoning (which we don’t), they’re tacitly admitting that their current security program is a complete failure, and also that they will not try to fix it.

Right. That’s OK, but then why did you blindly assume OP was wrong about the basic facts?

Two MOOcs on Coursera.

• Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop, California Institute of the Arts on Coursera. Taught by Douglas Kearney.
• Teaching Writing Specialization: Teaching Writing Process, Teaching Reluctant Writers, Teaching Texts and Forms, & Responding, Revising and Assessing Student Writings. Johns Hopkins University on Coursera. Taught by Mark Farrington.

And then rereading my old favorite books to see how the authors wrote sentences, specifically, as opposed to the plot which I already knew I liked.

And to repurchase. Never forget that aspect of the scam. Sell but don’t actually sell, make the customer keep on paying.

Authors would be foolish to publish on Amazon. Guarantees your book will be forgotten.

Android is different because there are no alternatives to cellphones except Apple. On the web, there are other ways to share video. So Google can maybe lock YouTube down, but it can’t lock you down.

Many of us use 3rd party browsers a stop-gap measure. We’d like to leave the platform entirely, but we are still interested in some of the content there, so we’re OK with the cat-and-mouse game for now, knowing that if Google goes hardcore blocking mode that we will walk away and be better human beings for it.

It’s a scam, like everything in modern prisons. They intentionally underfeed prisoners, so that you have to buy extra food from the prison store, where it’s overpriced but at least you’ll get the calories and nutrients you need to stay healthy. Most prisoners don’t have external income, so they are forced to work those prison jobs for pennies on the dollar.

And this is just one example of how prison administrators have intentionally set things up to fuck over prisoners as much as possible. In the U.S., it is sad but true that a large percent of the general public simply does not care, they think the prisoners “deserve it”.

Oh, and those books you’re talking about, do you think those come for free? Do you think you’ll get them if you’re on the guards’ shit list because you’re too lazy to work? That varies by location, but you can be sure that there’s no guarantees of access to literature.