I said, Ooh, girl,
Squeeze me like a butter deal,
Baby girl,
Turn me on with biginnver friendly feel
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Col. Will Porter
Col. Will Porter
I just found out that Doug Jones played Mac Tonight in 27 of the 29 commercials between 86 and 97.
I also didn't remember McDonald's was still using the character as late as 97. A truly insane era of advertising. I kinda miss it.
This Pride season, I find it helpful to view the surge in anti-LGBTQIA rhetoric as the rising stink of rot. It's not a growing movement. It's a massive, bloated, corpse. The buzz we hear is the sound of flies. We may never be able to clear away all the remains, but we have so much more life in us.
We can raise a better world without having to take shelter in the carcass of our predator.
We talk about enshittification, about these companies going from "Don't be evil" to "we need a photo of your drivers license right now", and we treat it like a customer service issue, a user experience issue. Where the fuck is our sense of proportion?
We've known about their ability to do this for at least 20yrs. People have been theorizing, complaining, filing info requests, and reporting on it. And they've been allowed to keep doing it.
Niantic's CIA connections were theorized a decade ago when they were part of Google and they admitted to their data collection operations in 2024.
Google also admitted Street View was illegally collecting wi-fi data including unique addresses and passwords as early as 2007.
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Col. Will Porter
Col. Will Porter
Col. Will Porter
Col. Will Porter
Col. Will Porter
Discover the unexpected journey of Pokémon Go from its origins in CIA-funded satellite technology to global gaming phenomenon. The story reveals how Niantic Labs' founder John Hanke transformed intell...
