patrick.net

https://babylonbee.com/news/10-honest-company-slogans

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Google is fairly valued at current stock price, and has maxed out its financial, growth and profitability scores.





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google is evil, and cloud computing is a death trap covered in roses

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

google is evil, and cloud computing is a death trap covered in roses

yep, Google has been making cuts to cloud computing

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/27/google-makes-cuts-to-hr-and-cloud-units.html

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FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

google is evil, and cloud computing is a death trap covered in roses

Lol, that's a great way to put it.

I honestly found it hard to believe at first that so many businesses would stake everything on the reliability and integrity of AWS.

Amazon has root access to all their servers and can literally view or do anything to your data. They can sell your stats to a competitor, or just shut you down.

I bet the NSA loves all that access.

google put client side scanning on my android phone last week without asking. I took it off.

"android system safety core" lol

My wife and I just updated our Samsung android phones. I had an old one that I used as a remote control start to swell up from the battery (dangerous) so I threw it away. I guess their planned obsolescence service cycle is about five years or so. Ours were eight years old and my wife had an obsolete LG Stylo 6 (no longer supported, LG dropped the cell phone business) that was buggier than shit. She is into hand grease, but not into cleaning the grease off the things she touches, but her phone just got weirder and weirder than hammered shit. She practices zilch phone hygiene but just complains and cusses at it when it fucks up on her. I told her I have no idea how she fucks the phone, so she either has to unfuck it herself or take it to a vendor for services. That, of course, gets me another 'beast' rating in her book.

I don't use mine much but it's our only phone now, and my wife is yapping and using hers relentlessly on a daily basis. The new ones seem to have fewer features in their UI. For instance, in messages, you don't have a selection to remove old messages all at once, you have to put a check mark one at a time to get rid of them.

Also, phones have parasitic diseases of all kinds from all the snares and hackers out there. A common one is to mimic apps that people like and use by changing small details to reveal click bait. The new ones also dropped the headphone jack, I guess to get you to fry your brain with earbuds.

My wife's new phone had a completely baffling interface until I went into it and found out a parasite app had hijacked the user interface to keep itself alive and referential. I finally corrected the UI and got rid of it. It was another that had small letter differences from the basic legitimate app.

Is their any cell phone penicillin out there to cure these chronic parasitic craps that they keep invading with?

I've never had any problems with my Samsung Galaxy Notes except for being hijacked by the covid app and now this. I don't think iphones are any better except perhaps for people's ego.

I need one or the other for work but when I'm done (or sooner if I can find one with a decent emulator in a few years) I'm going with a privacy phone.

Ceffer says

Is their any cell phone penicillin out there to cure these chronic parasitic craps that they keep invading with?

I suspect that the cure is to buy something like the "Liberty Phone", but they are very expensive at $2K:

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/liberty-phone/

Maybe posted before.

https://ground.news/article/us-judge-finds-google-holds-illegal-online-ad-tech-monopolies

A federal judge, Leonie Brinkema, ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in ad-tech markets, labeling the company an abusive monopolist for the second time in less than a year.

The U.S. Justice Department targeted Google's advertising network in 2023 to limit its power, consistent with earlier actions against its search engine.

Witnesses from Gannett and News Corp testified about the challenges they face due to Google's dominance, and the court's ruling may lead to penalties including the potential sale of Google’s Ad Manager product.

Google has been ruled to have illegally exploited its ad-tech markets, according to U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema.

She was appointed by Democrat Bill Clinton, and issued a stay of a Trump deportation order by Trump during his first term, so this ruling does not look politically motivated.

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1926537064905949246

JUST GROK IT: GOOGLE SEARCH SLIPS BELOW 90% FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2015

After a decade of ruling the web, Google’s grip is cracking.

Global search share fell to 89.71% in March - its first real stumble since 2015.

Turns out people are done scrolling through SEO sludge and ads pretending to be answers.

AI search is eating Google’s lunch.

Why dig through link farms when you can just Grok it and get straight to the point?

Users want answers, not blue links.

True, I've been using AI for most searches now. Grok is a bit better than ChatGPT, but ChatGPT is faster and doesn't require a login. So usually I try ChatGPT first, and if it doesn't get the answer right away, I switch to Grok.

I've also replaced translation sites with AI. I've been studying Spanish lately, so I often translate things one direction or the other.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/google-7

Google will pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to resolve two privacy lawsuits claiming the tech giant tracks Texans’ personal location and maintains their facial recognition data, both without their consent.

Google announced the settlement Friday, ending yearslong battles with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) over the state’s strict laws on user data. ...

The settlement rivals the $1.4 billion Meta opted to pay Texas last year to resolve facial recognition claims involving its Facebook and Instagram platforms. That agreement, which involved just one case, was the largest ever obtained from a suit brought by a single state. ...

The $1.375 billion exceeds the $391.5 million settlement Google reached with 40 states for misleading consumers over location tracking practices in 2022. ...

Texas relied on lucrative outside contingency contracts with law firms to take on Google and Meta.

Norton Rose Fulbright, which took the Google litigation, will collect up to 18% of the total net recovery in the facial recognition case and up to 27% of the recovery in the location case, according to contracts with the state of Texas that Bloomberg Law obtained through public records requests.

Partners and shareholders will bill $3,780 an hour—which factors in their usual hourly rate of $945 multiplied by four to offset the risk of losing and getting nothing. Senior associates will bill $2,600 an hour, and associates $1,900 an hour.

Well, I suppose the lawyers did a good thing and should get rewarded, but damn.

Parallel society. It will take a generation to build out, but with the Grace of God, we will have our children to complete the work.

Love them, teach them, warn them, and trust them with our future.

https://fortune.com/2025/08/01/google-epic-antitrust-monopoly-android-app-store/

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury verdict condemning Google’s Android app store as an illegal monopoly, clearing the way for a federal judge to enforce a potentially disruptive shakeup that’s designed to give consumers more choices.

The unanimous ruling issued Thursday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivers a double-barreled legal blow for Google, which has been waylaid in three separate antitrust trials that resulted in different pillars of its internet empire being declared as domineering scofflaws monopolies since late 2023.

The unsuccessful appeal represents a major victory for video game maker Epic Games, which launched a legal crusade targeting Google’s Play Store for Android apps and Apple’s iPhone app store nearly five years ago in an attempt to bypass exclusive payment processing systems that charged 15% to 30% commissions on in-app transactions.

Can people swear without consequence on YouTube then? Or is that because they monetize and adspace frowns upon that? As witnessed here I like to. Intelligent sounding? No. Helps get the fucking point across at times though ;)

https://slaynews.com/news/google-vows-reinstate-banned-youtube-accounts-admitting-political-censorship/

Google revealed Tuesday that it will offer reinstatement to YouTube accounts permanently banned for political speech related to COVID-19 and election integrity.

The move comes after the tech giant acknowledged that the Biden administration pressured the platform to censor lawful and truthful content for political purposes.

The disclosure came in a document sent by Google’s lawyers to the House Judiciary Committee.

Reinstating accounts is not enough.

Google needs to be fined ten years of revenue.

https://x.com/jeremykauffman/status/1971241900532510880



Google was granted a corporate charter by the people. Since they have acted so outrageously against free speech, their corporate charge must be revoked, and Google shareholders bankrupted.

It is legal to dissolve Google, and clearly the right thing to do.

https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1987611980052504830