@cstross I guess I'm missing the part where these corporations are going to set a trillion dollars on fire is anything other than "don't threaten me with a good time".

Mozilla is an advertising company now.

This seems completely normal and cool and not troublesome in any way.

Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a [blah blah blah] raise the bar for the advertising industry [blah blah blah] while delivering effective...
https://jwz.org/b/ykVg

The last 7 consecutive posts from the Mozilla account have been about "responsible" "AI".

As in, "responsible" fossil fuels, or "clean coal", or "ethical" cryptocurrency.

Keep fucking that potato.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/01/mozilla-blinked/

@MBridegam @gwozniak @daniel
The only thing the official; Mozilla account ever posts about now is "responsible" "AI". https://mastodon.social/@jwz/111574491888005585

Elsewhere I saw someone post this image as a *defense of* rather than *parody of* Mozilla's corporate structure. Apparently this infographic comes from somewhere deep within the comically un-navigable "stateof.mozilla.org" (seriously, that site's design is like the "don't" list for the modern web's ills.)

"This is where the Innovation goes in."

Remember when Mozilla made a web browser?

Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives:

Earlier this year, Mozilla laid out their vision for the future of their organization -- and it did not include Firefox....
https://jwz.org/b/ykH2

@MBridegam @gwozniak @daniel https://jwz.org/b/yj-6

@jhpot More importantly, anyone who has ever actually used the word "grok" non-ironically might as well have "I am a huge fucking loser" tattooed across their forehead. That's like an ESR level of cringe dweebery.

@lauren I agree that outright prohibition is a bad tactic, but apparently this age-gate approach has been arguably successful in NZ, if you define success as "started vaping instead"? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/vaping-and-de-nicotinisation-what-uk-can-learn-from-new-zealands-smoking-crackdown

@cnx @SirTapTap As always I apologize for whatever primordial role I played in kneecapping democracy.

@AstroKatie Thanks I hate it!