Reblogs, Rants and Boobs

I reblog stuff. There are no boobs. I lied.

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[zooophagous]

Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book

An emergency arbitrator ruled that former Meta staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams is prohibited from promoting memoir of her tenure at the social m

Hey did you know there's a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?

The good news is however that it's already published and can't be stifled and whoever didn't sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.

[splend-42]

She's not allowed to promote it?

Well then, I guess we'll have to do it for her.

Careless People ebook by Sarah Wynn-Williams - Rakuten Kobo

Read "Careless People A story of where I used to work" by Sarah Wynn-Williams available from Rakuten Kobo. **'Devastating . . . funny . . .

[elfspectations]

It's available from bookshop.org and Barnes & Noble in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. It's on the front page of the B&N website and they're advertising $5 currently.

Also request it at your local library if they don't already have a copy!

[happyroadkillart]

trash birds being quite silly

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I do love the phrase executive dysfunction bc the image it conjures is of a bunch of people wearing business suits around a long oval conference table  arguing with each other to the point where they’re getting into physical fights, but in the background there’s just a big empty whiteboard with a To Do list with one item on it and that item is “take shower”

[jess-abides]

This is it, this is the one

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

Oh mY GOD do I try

[neuters]

i need both of these now

[lesbianmichelmishina]

the reason these exist (iirc) is because peppa pig is banned in china for “promoting gangster attitudes”: peppa was popular (for whatever reason) with “shehuiren” (anti-establishment internet users), who made a lot of memes involving peppa and even got tattoos of her because it’s funny. the result of banning peppa is that shehuiren-types liked peppa even more afterwards, and now she’s a bit of a counterculture symbol in china. hence these shirts.

[setheverman]

this is the EXACT kind of knowledge i absolutely had no idea i so badly needed

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[salt-sass-and-lyrium]

Racist Ohio Driver Says Viral Video of Him Calling Black Man a N***er Ruined His Life

Jeff Whitman drove two miles out of his way to follow a black man to his house and harass him in a now-viral racist tirade. The consequences were immediate.

“I’m out of business, I’m completely out, I’m done, I’ll never work in Columbus again,” Whitman said. “This has completely and thoroughly ruined my life.”

“I just don’t understand the intensity of the hate,” said the man who drove two miles out of his way to verbally abuse a complete stranger based on the color of his skin.

[elaxisfae]

This is so sad… Alexa play “that’s what you get” by Paramore.

[lozzersreblargs]

“I lost my job because I'm a racist piece of shit caught being a racist piece of shit. Why do you hate me so much?”

Because you're a racist piece of shit. Nuff said.

[queen-ofxthe-clouds]

I’ve been laughing at this stupid fucking video for 30 minutes

[the-last-of-the-frosty-boys]

Yall sont understand this is the funniest thing ive experienced in weeks

[fish-food-s]

holy fucking shit

[lozzersreblargs]

You beautiful bastard

[melonmemes]

This is a different level of anxiety

[lozzersreblargs]

This but also me when trying to hurry up putting several items in a bag but just as I'm putting in the second item (out of like 6) the cashier is already telling me the total amount. 

[aconissa]

netflix gods, please pick up brooklyn nine nine for future seasons and save us from the darkest timeline

[aconissa]

thank you merciful gods of nbc 🙌🏽

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

[orasgiveaways]

This is really important and let me tell you why.

My mom has an iPhone 6 Plus and hasn’t even had it for a year when one day it suddenly died and would not charge. So she took it to an authorized Apple repair place and they charged her $50 for a diagnostic only to tell her that she would have to buy a brand new phone.

So she decided to go to the AT&T store to talk to our usual guy that upgrades our phones and handles any problems for us. She tells him what’s wrong and he takes her phone to the back only to come out two minutes later, puts her phone on charge and it comes back to life. 

She asks him what was wrong with it that he managed to somehow fix when the people at the “authorized apple repair place” couldn’t. And you know what he told her?

“There was just a bit of fuzz in the charging port.”

[toenail-draws]

I FUCKING KNEW IT. Listen, I have a MacBook from college. The charger has died twice, and I had to get a new one. This happened for two years in a row around the same time each year. I’m fucking convinced that their hardware is rigged to “expire” in order to force people to keep buying their shit.

[blood-and-pastry]

Wait, people are just now learning that Apple has some of the shadiest business practices?

[xxxtictacion]

You know this isn’t really just apple, company’s do this all the time, everything is rigged to expire and all they want is your money.

[tachyon-at-rest]

Ohhh no no no, this IS JUST Apple. 

All companies want you to buy their new products. None have gone to the lengths that Apple Inc. has gone to make end user repairs as impossible as is legally viable. I have been repairing electronics and computer systems privately, commercially and active duty in the US military for about 30 years. 

Apple puts extra effort into special hardware requiring proprietary tools that are only legally produced by their licensed manufacturer and can only be purchased through licensed repair shops if at all. 

Companies like iFixit can only exist as profit making companies because they are able to make workaround tools and kits that are still profitable but less of a blatant ripoff than Apple. 

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

Apple has been doing this forever. The way Apple treats consumers is abysmal, and people still eat their products up.

[shevathegun]

This is called “planned obsolescence” - many companies do it, but Apple has made it into an art. Basically, companies - tech companies in particular - have realized that if their products are manufactured too well, they won’t be able to sell you a new one in three years. So, in order to keep consumers coming back for more, they design your gadgets to “expire” in all manner of ways; Apple is infamous for pushing software updates that render older model phones and computers useless right before releasing a new product so that consumers will be forced to purchase the newest version of a gadget they already have.

The best way to fight back against this kind of wasteful, predatory, capitalistic schlock is to learn more about how your gadgets work so that you can repair them instead of replacing them. This man is doing the Lord’s work.

[redbeanviolin]

I get asked a lot in stream about maintaining my 10 year old mac as my main comp and why I won’t be getting a new one when I can’t maintain it anymore. This bullshit is why. I want this here so I can point to it as I divolve into unintelligible on screen ramblings about my adventures in apple upkeep. Get fucked so hard, Apple.

[lozzersreblargs]

That update that came out a few years ago that bricked a bunch of IPads bricked mine the very same fucking day I BOUGHT IT. I had only just booted it up sorted out the info shit you have to put in it and got the message to update the thing. I did so and when it had to restart it got stuck on the logo loading screen. It was fucked. Thankfully I took it to PC World and the people there just let me grab a different one around the same price. They couldn't fix the other one at all and even they said it was ridiculous. 

Anyway, I totally ignore ALL update messages on IPad and my IPhone especially since they recently admitted or were forced to admit that all updates INTENTIONALLY SLOW DOWN YOUR DEVICE so you eventually HAVE to buy the latest phone or whatever.

Fuck you Apple.

[cr-toons]

Do You Know What These Are???

Like, recently I’ve been talking  to friends about old candies from when I was a kid like buttons and candy cigarettes and THESE!!! But nobodies ever heard or seen Satellite/UFO Wafers before and its fucking me up hardcore cause this is like such a classic candy shop candy!

[akron-squirrel-reblogs]

NOPE

I want them though

[lozzersreblargs]

I had these when I was a kid back around the 90′s. Not sure when they first were made but I assume perhaps the 70′s? IDK.

Anyway, I love these things! Haven't had them in ages but these and Monster Munch were my face snacks back in the day. 

Fake edit: they were made in the 50′s in Antwerp but became popular in England and still are actually. From the looks of it they’re still being made but I haven't seen any yet. I always assumed they were a British made sweet but nope.

[catchymemes]

[videogamesincolor]

How Net Neutrality will Recede Post-April 23d, 2018

The Following text is copied from the thread of the official twitter of fightforthefuture.org:

@fightfortheftr (April 19, 2018): There have been a lot of inaccurate reports that the FCC’s repeal of #NetNeutrality will officially go into effect next week on April 23rd. That’s not true. It’s a bit more complicated than that. Ready? Here we go:

Its understandable many journos are confused by this. It’s legitimately confusing. The FCC order said it would go into effect 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, which would have been April 23rd. But, it still has to be approved by the Office of Management & Budget.

There was another FCC filing in the Federal Register that would imply the earliest the OMB could approve this (and its worth noting that approval is basically just a technicality) is actually April 27th, but its likely to happen some time after that, possibly even weeks after.

The most important thing for EVERYONE to understand is that nothing catastrophic or dramatic is going to happen immediately when the FCC rules go into effect. Telecom shills will immediately start saying “See? The sky didn’t fall, we never needed #NetNeutrality.“ 

They’re lying.

The ISPs aren’t going to immediately start blocking content or rolling out paid prioritization scams. They know Congress and the public are watching them. Rather, the death of #NetNeutrality will be slow and insidious. You might not even notice it at first.

And that’s the worst part. What will happen is over time ISP scams and abuses will become more commonplace and more accepted. They’ll roll out new schemes that appear good on their face but undermine the free market of ideas by allowing ISPs to pick winners and losers.

Over time we’ll see less awesome startups. Less awesome videos. Less diverse online content. And we’ll see more content that our ISPs want us to see. The Internet will be watered down and manipulated. It will change forever in ways that harm our democracy. 

But it will take time.

So: don’t fall for ISP lobbyists talking points. They’re ALREADY claiming that #NetNeutrality was never needed since the sky hasn’t fallen, and the rules haven’t even gone into effect. But also don’t panic. The Internet is not going to die next week. Keep calm and keep fighting.

The Senate will vote in a matter of weeks on a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to block the FCC’s repeal. Now is the moment to get engaged.

Everyone: take action at http://BattleForTheNet.com

Small businesses: sign this letter http://BusinessesForNetNeutrality.com

Retweet & spread!

@ineeddiversegames @poc-creators @weneeddiversebooks

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[snorlax-and-co]

me: *gets jumpscared by a toaster*