After a fews months of consideration I believe that 2022's "The Batman", while not the most fun, is the best Batman film. #coldTake
Perhaps this is a rather #coldtake (not that hot takes are any good), but Meta banning Canadian news media is some solid authoritarian dystopia stuff. Social media companies have effectively concocted a back door around the Canadian charter by creating absolute market share through private platforms to impose a virtual dictatorship on media.
Canada really should ban Meta because of the threat it poses to what little democracy we have. If we must have a state, surely this is what it ought to be good for. Right? But Canadians are not really going to care, because we are all pretty accustomed to being dominated by monopolies. I mean, this country is like five or six value chain monopolies, on violently stolen land, wrapped in a flag. With the exception CBC, our major media companies are owned by private equity firms. This status quo simply cannot persist if we actually value democracy. #cdnpoli #meta #newsmedia
#coldtake #cdnpoli #meta #newsmedia
Imaginos is the Geek Inclusion Fallacy of Blue Öyster Cult albums. #ColdTake
I like that it collapses all the complexity of a 4X in to a single X: eXploit efficiencies.
On one hand, I love that McCarthy is getting screwed over, but on the other hand, I do fear that this whole mess will inevitably result in a more conservative majority leader. #ColdTake