Archive copy of the Fortune article: https://archive.is/PoraP
rob_t_firefly
joined 2 years ago
The next four years will likely make things more and more difficult for anyone trying to immigrate to the US, asylum or otherwise.
Wait'll they find out who put this whole Internet thing together in the first place.
Just a reminder for anyone concerned about potential FSF involvement that Free Software Foundation Europe has no ties to FSF or Stallman.
In around 2005 or so I went back to look at a Usenet newsgroup which had been a major part of my online life in the 1990s. All the people had gone, but the spambots were still there and the entire group was just bot spam posted at nobody and read by no one. The bots were even replying to one another's threads. A forum where multiple IRL human friendships had been forged over the years was nothing more than grifting robots spamming at each other.
It's fully 20 years later and the same shit is going down with a new coat of paint.
Fixed it for you. Censorship reversal is pastede on, yay.
I got a new passport and learned you can get any image you want printed onto a passport holder, and this had to happen.
I briefly considered making some original cover art based on how the Guide itself is described in the story, but I then thought about all the reasons not to pull out something that says "DON'T PANIC" in large, friendly letters in view of some jittery border guard who may not get the literary reference.
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I'm not even buying green bananas at this point.