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  • It is a bit long but it is worth watching, because of the way she explains her circumstances.

    But the TL;DR is: first she explains that the government mandate of two sexes only flies in the face of medical reality, then she says she’s effectively been disappeared by Trump’s executive order as a trans woman, and that if she ever goes to jail - which can happen just because she’s accused of something, because she’s on the wrong side of someone - it can mean a death sentence, or at least the very real possibility of being subjected to torture in a male prison, where she now would have to be incarcerated into. And then she explain how her life has been utterly fucked up by someone outing her decades ago, and it never stops, despite having lived all her life following the American dream of liberty and self reliance.

    But really you should watch it. My blurb doesn’t do the video justice.










  • Your name isn’t private information.

    What if I don’t want to give it to Microsoft?

    Your photo doesn’t have to be included in M365, and isn’t by default in any organization I’ve worked with.

    My company mandates that we put our mugs on Teams so “people know who they’re talking to”.

    Your personal address also isn’t in your work profile on M365, that’s usually in an HR system somewhere, not kept in Active Directory. Your salary is the same, it’s not stored in your M365 profile, and neither is your sick days. This simply isn’t normal M365 functionality.

    When the fucking secretary puts all that stuff in an Excel file, and everybody’s photos - and company photos - in a sharepoint, and the accountant does the payroll in M365, it is.

    Microsoft also doesn’t just have access to this information the way you think they do. They can’t just log in with an admin account and check your current status on teams, or read your e-mails, or anything like that.

    That’s right: nobody logs in with an admin account: all that data you feed Microsoft is processed automatically.

    You don’t really think they take your money and honestly host your data and provides services without raping your and your company’s information every which way do you? Big Data’s entire business model is exploiting other people’s data.

    Microsoft’s gig is really clever: they force people who otherwise would never give any information to Microsoft to do so by selling their employers services that are cheaper than on-prem, and in turn, their employers force the employees to share their information with Microsoft on pain of getting the sack.


  • My identify, my photo, my address are mine. I never wanted to share any of that with Microsoft. Thanks to my employer, I have to.

    Likewise, I don’t want to Microsoft to know my salary, or how many sick days I take due to my disability. Thanks to my employer, Microsoft knows all about me, and I don’t want Microsoft to know anything about me.

    The work data I produce at work belongs to my employer. If my employer is foolish enough to share it with Microsoft, it’s their problem - although arguably, if that ever jeopardizes my company’s ability to win contracts on the markets it operates in because Microsoft has insider knowledge and undercuts it, and my company does less well as a result, then it becomes my problem. But I’m forced to share my personal data because my employer decided without my consent to share it with Microsoft.


  • Because it’s run by Microsoft, which is now a Big Data player. They use Teams to “monetize” your company’s data and train their AI on it without your company’s consent. They use Teams to collect data on employees who don’t have a choice because they need a job to put food on the table, like real name, photo and phone number.

    If you don’t want to give any data to Microsoft, too bad: your employer forces it on you. Don’t like it? Your only option is to resign. That’s the most egregious aspect of Teams - and Office 365, and all business-oriented Microsoft data honeypots: they use employers to collect data on employees who don’t have any say about it.






  • People who bought a Tesla before Musk publicly went hard right couldn’t know. If I was one of them, I’d look at selling the vehicle, but I understand long-time Tesla owners don’t want the aggravation or take a financial hit reselling an undesirable vehicle.

    However, people who buy a Tesla vehicle today clearly buy the baggage that comes with it in full knowledge of what they’re buying and I have nothing but contempt for them.