10% return on equity is outrageous, especially for a utility...much less a #ConvictedMurderer utility like #PGnE
https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/electricity-bills-include-bonuses-for-utility-companies/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqEAgAKgcICjCbvYILMJ-8_wIwtafZAw&utm_content=bullets
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Selling #TikTok to #Oracle is probably the fastest way to kill the social spyware platform.
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If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or above, Apple is Auto-enabling “Apple Intelligence” on your phone with the iOS 18.3 update. If you want to avoid the hassle and resource consumption, here’s how to turn this #BloatWare off:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/apple-intelligence-will-soon-be-enabled-automatically-heres-how-to-turn-it-off/
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And hackers are the most innocent thing you have to worry about with “connected” cars. Be even more worried about car companies using tech to extract rent from you for using your own car.
https://samcurry.net/hacking-subaru#introduction
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"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The #5thAmendment is pretty damn clear.
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At a time when San Francisco is criminalizing being unhoused, evicting people from shelters is unacceptable…especially since much of that criminalization is aimed at forcing unhoused people into those very shelters. https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/homeless-families-receive-eviction-notices-from-sf-shelters/
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[#]LinaKhan is hands down the best regulator in a generation
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Our economy has become largely based on unsustainable grifts. And that’s largely because we’ve removed all meaningful constraints on finance capital.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-economy/
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Another example of companies using #Crippleware to extract economic rent from people who already paid for their equipment.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/canon-charges-50-per-year-to-use-a-900-camera-as-a-functional-webcam/
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Sage advice from @pluralistic as usual. Reminds me of an old song Jello Biafra wrote about puritans in the punk scene… https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba
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I see that senate Dems have once again thrown constitutional rights under the bus to curry favor with (checks notes) anti-immigrant Republicans.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/laken-riley-act-immigration-bill-trojan-horse.html
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In the spirit of @pluralistic’s #AdversarialInteroperability I decided to start monitoring how much time and energy I devote to browsers vs apps on my phone. iOS has a convenient feature for this. If you see a browser or other relatively grassroots tool above dedicated apps, I suspect that’s a good thing…or at least I hope it is :)
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If you're a member of the San Francisco Public Library, you can borrow eBooks on a variety of platforms (including Kindle) for free! They've got an extensive collection, and most borrow times are 21 days. Give it a try!
https://sfpl.org/books-and-media/ebook-collections
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I recently started using @npr 's mobile app again, and man...has it gone downhill. We've lost the straight local station streams, and instead we have to put up with a "local" stream with NPR-inserted targeted ads every few minutes. It's worse than commercial radio. Truly a case of @pluralistic's #enshittification in action.
NPR is a vital resource...it's tough to watch something this bad come out of the organization I rely on for so much. I'll stick to the regular airwaves for now.
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American workers pay some of the highest tax rates in the world…it’s just that not everything is called a tax. When you factor in healthcare premiums and other mandatory payments, the US ranks second in the world in the burden it places on workers.
https://jacobin.com/2019/04/labor-tax-rates-united-states-health-insurance
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One of the reasons we can’t have a substantive policy debate in the US is the network of industry-funded lobby groups flooding the zone with fake news and cherry-picked statistics.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/california-minimum-wage-myth/681145/
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Cheating on an essay is one thing…but cheating on a police report? That should result in an instant dismissal of a case. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/prosecutors-washington-state-warn-police-dont-use-gen-ai-write-reports
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ROTFL...
[#]AISatire
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This hits so hard right now.
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