I’d go with Necrophobic so that people get the impression I stayed at the party for twice as long as I was able to manage.

You can’t bring me down

I worked in a private library that still had it’s card catalogue up until 2005. People were always ripping out the cards (there was something like a metal knitting needle that passed through a punched hole in each card to stop idiots from destroying the catalogue, so the gobshites ripped them out instead).

The early digital catalogues weren’t great so the old card system persisted.

Trump and co. are merely impatient oligarchs that feel that they now have the technological and propaganda controls fine tuned enough to reduce the chances of blowback ever reaching them as they ramp up the extraction of value from the rest of us.

For the other lot were doing this apace too but most of the worst of their efforts were hidden in the global south.

Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy

At least

Which gives superficial comfort as it gives scant protection from how aggregate data is used to upend democracy.

“Chinese authorities have far-reaching access rights to personal data within the sphere of influence of Chinese companies,” she added.

And that’s different to American companies how? None of this climate of data harvesting is currently good for us.

That’s uh…what she said?

A general strike is your only hand. So start prepping for that.

Maybe so. I don’t remember the packaging half as clearly as I do the crappy chocolate.

I think I remember these. They were a low quality chocolate stick wrapped in paper. I didn’t like them. I think I got that they were preying on kid’s desire to ape adult behaviours but I may be conflating a decade of memories.

Henrys here! Almost…

They’d just ‘devide’ up their businesses into a chain of symbiotic entities defined by paygrade. Then the executive level can enrich itself insulated from us front line grunts.

Devide

verb

Obsolete form of divide.

I could swear I heard that whole ACER laptop angle a couple of months ago on someone else’s podcast. I don’t want to say verbatim but I was having severe dejayvu. It wasn’t a Doctorow podcast that much I’m sure.

Extra points for not lifting the spagetti pile when you’re hovering.

100%

Ah this is the London Hackney Cab flourish. It’s kind of like yelling ‘Yeehaw’ as the bull leaps into the air and somehow you are still attached.

Not sure if the future tense ‘will’ is appropriate here