It is ethically problematic for companies to restrict ownership rights by reserving the power to remotely disable consumer hardware.
“You 1,000% do not own the Nintendo console you buy anymore, which would be fine. It would be more fine if we were still in the era of like carts that actually had all the game data on them and that actually worked completely without Nintendo's online services”
Linus Tech Tips · May 2025 · 3 episodes · 1.6M views on this topicTech entrepreneurs are often creepy, performative, and fascinated by death in ways that are haunting.
“Why can't you meet one tech person who whose description of what they do isn't completely haunting? Like completely haunting.”
The Tim Dillon Show · Jul 2021 · 1 episode · 493K views on this topicOver-hiring in Silicon Valley tech companies has resulted in bored employees distracting themselves with performative social activism.
“So, I actually think that what we've really done is over-hired far too many people into many of these companies. And so, they kind of are very smart people sitting around twiddling their thumbs. And so, obviously, they're just going to get distracted.”
The All-In Podcast · May 2021 · 1 episode · 121K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
Complete months · first on record May 2021