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14 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Who could have foreseen that the conglomerate making your phone, your set-top box, your watch, your speakers, your credit card, your fitness plan, as well as distributing your news, music, and movies might not be the ideal producer of your TV shows!

nytimes.com/2020/12/13/bus…
Apple's TV production sounds like a love place to work, though. No nudity, no critiques of the CCP (or China in general), no retrospective that might cast any of Apple's past irritants in a positive light, and you have to endure show notes from the king of cool, Mr Cook!
Once upon a time we banned movie studies from owning theaters. Correctly assessing that producers owning distribution was bad for consumers, bad for censorship, bad for all the things. But like the Glass-Steagall repeal, we now think corporations are so much wiser and kinder!
If the monopoly counter wave achieves once thing, it should be that big tech is pushed back from owning, producing, and editing our news, our music, our movies, and our TV shows. Let Apple make phones, let creatives make content.

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16 Dec
Lord knows I have my problems with Apple, but Facebook – of all fucking companies – taking a "why won't you think of the small business" line to defend its privacy plundering ways is nauseating 🤮 theverge.com/2020/12/16/221…
And of course they need to drape themselves in "we're just here for small business" because they're the biggest pirates of privacy. I mean, look at this list!
This needn't be! Here's the privacy label for @heyhey. Yeah, no you don't need to scroll for twenty seconds. This is it. Ads targeted on personal data exploited by the likes of Facebook is nasty whether its done by small, medium, or big business. Image
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10 Dec
For a good while, I thought the migration to the cloud was inevitable and good. A foregone conclusion. I don't think that anymore, and I'm really proud of the Basecamp ops team for having the expertise to giving us a on-prem path that's this solid ✌️❤️
What shattered the bell was seeing the bills. Whoever tells you that cloud is cheaper has never tried to provision a large fleet of database servers there. But it's not just about cost, although for a company of our composition IS an issue, it's also the future of the internet.
The idea that we're handing over half the internet – a system DELIBERATELY BUILT to be dispersed and resilient – and giving it to three companies to run their mega clouds on is fundamentally corrupt and obviously monopolizing. It's Bad For The Internet!
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10 Dec
While focus is on Facebook, the ultimate remedy is to destroy the value of their monopolized access to user data: OUTLAW ADVERTISING TARGETED WITH PERSONAL DATA. It's this regime of advertising that has enabled the Facebook/Google duopoly on online ads to destroy everyone else.
Advertisers will stop pouring money into the cesspool that is Facebook the second they're unable to target their ads using Facebook's monopoly data trove. This will direct funds back into places where specific content attracts ads. Just what's needed to release the squid's grip.
Facebook and Google has destroyed the value in building a audience around high quality content, localized reach, or any specific niches, because their data troves have rendered even the worst content as good as the best, as long as the eyeball clock is ticking.
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10 Dec
Rails 6.1 has been released! Awesome extractions from @github for multi-db improvements, my beloved delegated types, async destroys, public URLs for Active Storage, and fixes galore. 654 people contributed code to this one 🎉❤️👏 weblog.rubyonrails.org/2020/12/9/Rail…
It truly is remarkable that the rate of improvement and advancement is still this high. I started working on Rails almost 18 years ago!! And it's as exciting as ever. Rails 6.1 is a wonderful release, and what we have coming next is a big jump too.
Such a resurgence of interest lately, too, as more people realize the value of a highly-integrated, full-stack framework with strong conventions. And of course what a lovely language Ruby is, just as we stand on the cusp of the v3.0 release of that. It's all of the ❤️
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8 Dec
This was written in 1938, but could just as well have been written today. The monopoly abuses of Big Tech is an echo from the ages. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
Thurman Arnold is searing in his critique of how commentators and the media in general has run interference for big tech monopolies. Again, this was written in 1938!! There truly is nothing new under the sun.
Even the damn illustration that accompanies the article is a zinger for today.
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7 Dec
This is one of the key reasons we've don't have anyone at Basecamp that exclusively does "management". Nothing is more dangerous to the well-being of employees than a manager with too much time on their hands.
"The problem with management in small teams and businesses is that it’s often not a full-time job. Smart, capable workers need some direction and follow-up, sure, but they also thrive on autonomy. Frivolous management frequently encroach on the latter". m.signalvnoise.com/moonlighting-m…
Worth noting that "moonlighting" probably wasn't the greatest term for this. It implies (falsely) that management is something you do ON TOP of work (I.e. after hours). That's not healthy. The management part is work. Important work. Part of the 40h limit.
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