Or a co-op?
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Or adversarial interoperability and enforcement of antitrust?
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I’ve said that for years now… 
Another good idea…
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Cool story bro, let me know how the diet of glue pizza, small rocks and poisonous mushrooms goes for you.
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This Chris Ware excerpt is actually the response I’d wanted to make; found it just now while rummaging around for something else.
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That’s basically what mastodon is, no? A volunteer network built and coded by volunteers and run on infrastructure either voluntarily provided or (in many cases) run on donations?
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This is a co-op around here:
My bank accounts and insurance are also provided by a co-op. I’m paid most of my home insurance with bonuses I get by being a customer-owners.
AFAIK people get paid for their work in co-ops.
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Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor
Meta has partnered with Anduril Industries to build augmented and virtual reality devices for the military, eight years after it fired the defense firm’s founder, Palmer Luckey.
Luckey joined Meta when it was still called Facebook following the social media company’s 2014 acquisition of Oculus, the virtual reality headset biz he founded.
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A Facebook spokesperson denied that Palmer’s departure was political back in 2018, when the Wall Street Journal made that claim. Whatever the case, Meta’s donation of $1 million to the Trump inaugural fund in December 2024 was by definition political.
The goal of the Meta-Anduril tie-up is to make some money selling XR – extended reality – products, something that has eluded Meta […] despite pouring billions and billions into it.
Perhaps the US military, with a proposed budget that tops $1 trillion this year, will help generate some return on that investment.
“Meta has spent the last decade building AI and AR to enable the computing platform of the future,” said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, in a statement. “We’re proud to partner with Anduril to help bring these technologies to the American servicemembers that protect our interests at home and abroad.”
Just like Microsoft did with the HoloLens… Oh right,
until it was discontinued in late 2024. And in February, 2025, Redmond handed its US Army Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) contract over to Andruil.
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Luckey, for his part, sounds as if he bears no ill-will toward his former employer.
“I am glad to be working with Meta once again,” he said in a statement. "Of all the areas where dual-use technology can make a difference for America, this is the one I am most excited about. My mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers, and the products we are building with Meta do just that."
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Screw these guys. Steve and Laurene Jobs didn’t let their own kids use an iPad because they knew about the downsides of too much technology use and addiction, at the same time that Apple was marketing these things for kids and pushing for schools to use them in the classroom. Any claims about unforseen consequences are 100% bullshit.
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To be fair on Steve Jobs and his parenting: he was a fucking shitty parent.
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Surely this time they’ll succeed in producing a VR/AR headset that’s a huge commercial success. After all, who could resist playing augmented reality pong as Zuckerberg demonstrated for all those tech reporters?
For people who have never actually used a device that’s controlled by eye movements that might sound appealing, but as someone who helped set up an assistive computer tablet for my FIL when he was going through ALS, I can say that the novelty factor wears off extremely quickly, it soon becomes exhausting, and that a tactile interface is much, much better, if you’re able to use one.
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He was a shitty human being.
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