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the quality and range of services public libraries provide relative to what they cost is nothing short of a miracle imo. But yeah, sure, “run government like a business.” 📚

Erratic Reader

@randomreader.bsky.social

1. The government is not a business. The goals and mechanisms are entirely different. The value of a service is not completely monetary. 2. Enron, Purdue Pharma, Union Carbide, Theranos, and Trump University are/were businesses. No one should want to emulate them.

15/12/24, 5:39 pm2 reposts29 likes

Linotype Pilgrim

@symbo1ics.bsky.social

15 Dec 2024

The list grows ever longer bsky.app/profile/symb...

Linotype Pilgrim@symbo1ics.bsky.social

Reminds me that Theranos whistleblowers were in mortal danger for years. There was at least one known suicide. These companies will do anything to protect their frauds; Theranos silenced people for 13 years. & then there's the whistleblower suppression of Boeing, OpenAI, Amazon, Tesla… #aifraud

Linotype Pilgrim

@symbo1ics.bsky.social

15 Dec 2024

Nothing shady to see here bsky.app/profile/symb...

Linotype Pilgrim@symbo1ics.bsky.social

it's fucking monotype. maybe you've heard of them; they used to make fonts. now they're just a debt piñata that you can whack once for $600 million quick cash