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“The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.”

― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

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Written by Earthshine on 2025-01-20 at 22:03

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Written by Earthshine on 2025-01-20 at 21:32

I'm sure these two things are entirely unrelated and coincidental and in no way indicative of any intention on the part of Microsoft to raise 365 Apps for Busine--...err, I mean, Copilot... subscription prices to include Copilot without any easy way of opting out.

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Written by Earthshine on 2025-01-20 at 21:30

Microsoft is rebranding Microsoft 365 (Formerly Microsoft 365 Apps for Business, formerly Office 365, formerly Microsoft Office) to Microsoft Copilot.

Simultaneously, Microsoft is packaging Copilot with personal/family 365 plans as a pretext to raise the price of the base plan for new and existing users.

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Written by Earthshine on 2025-01-20 at 20:47

reminder that you can sanitize your feed.

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Written by Earthshine on 2025-01-20 at 20:18

Please Saint Luigi, save us from this madness.

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Written by Earthshine on 2025-01-20 at 20:15

how do I balance the need to vent about the insufferable enshittification of everything in my life, and the need to not expose myself to even more psychic damage by learning about all the insufferable enshittification of everything not yet affecting me personally?

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