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  • Much like the current hullabaloo about the head of ProtonMail being suspect because of his support of Trump, there’s a ton of shady shit about Kagi, too. They’re Venture Capital funded. What’s the deal with the T-shirt company? Why did they lie stupidly about stuff like “we don’t do paid advertising… oh wait whoops now we do.”

    Further, the CEO of Kagi just has that techbro attitude of “You are required to listen to what I have to say.”

    https://mastodon.social/@lori@hackers.town/112258758788834454

    Discussions with Vlad are him telling you his side and expecting you to accept it as the truth and not keep arguing. His goal isn’t to discuss, it’s to keep talking at you until you agree or go away. HE thinks he discusses with people, but he talks AT people. So I don’t feel bad making a blog post and forcing him to be talked at for once (which I never even expected him or that many other people to see it, I’m trying to figure out how many hits I even got rn to see how bad he Streissand’d this).

    But yeah I knew that already, and that’s why I didn’t engage with him. I know what a Vlad conversation is and I wasn’t willing to be lectured by the CEO of a company I criticized on my tiny personal blog. Thats an insane proposition. And it’s really not even irony–I suspected this is exactly what would happen. I knew that arguing with Vlad would only benefit his own ego, but I knew that bluntly repeating “I will not discuss this with you quit emailing me” will just prove what I already knew, that he does not care what people say (and probably barely reads what they say given that he linked me the same post I already read twice) and that he will do whatever he’s driven to do no matter what. The only options were he quits emailing me (great!) or he digs himself in deeper and deeper (great??? idk but it proves a point)

    Seriously, his behavior is unhinged.




  • It’s not even “rainbow capitalism.”

    This goes all the way back to women’s suffrage and the Civil Rights era.

    They didn’t start accepting women into the workforce and blacks into the workforce because they saw them as valuable humans just for existing.

    They realized they were leaving money on the table. If women had money, they could be marketed products, if blacks had money, they could marketed products. That was “opening up new markets.” Hiring them meant they would get paid and have money in their pockets to spend at your business.

    Every single group that got attention and understanding was about being able to exploit them for more money. The only color they’ve ever cared about is the green on their money. This is also why it’s been such an uphill battle for anyone disabled, because if you can’t maximize your output by absolutely destroying your body and mind for capital: they don’t want you.

    Further, if you get enough money to do some capitalism yourself and create something like “Black Wall Street” they’ll bomb the living fuck out of you to put a stop to it.

    They never thought of us as humans, just as “Human Capital Stock.” We’re just units to be used and discarded like millions of mistreated farm animals every single day.



  • Absolutely. Lots of people are in poverty and literally cannot afford to vote with their wallet anymore.

    Further, the whole “no ethical consumption under capitalism” thing. Once in a while someone just needs something comforting and their individual act of purchase alone isn’t enough to say they’re the problem. Especially if they’re not spending money on such things at such places very often.

    At some level we still need to allow people some small comforts, even if those small comforts come at a social cost. The social cost of being in complete discomfort and not being able to relax is pretty high in comparison to the social cost of a single purchase.





  • I know the feeling… I’m going through the same right now.

    The worst part about it all is that we can “vote with our wallet” all we want, it doesn’t change much if we all have to work for the same companies we’re trying to boycott. Our labor does way more for them than our individual purchases.

    I’ve said for years people need to vote with their paycheck, but we’re getting fucking crushed and there’s few choices left.

    I remember literally getting into an argument with an corporate AT&T employee on reddit after the reveal of Room 641A. I argued that their labor was directly allowing this kind of shenanigans to happen, and if they really had a problem with it like they said, they needed to find a different job.

    Back then things were still good enough that sort of thing might have made a difference. We’re all under The Boot now.