Maybe we don’t want companies burying the lede and using their charitable donations as a sales tactic? I don’t believe for a second that they aren’t counting on people not knowing that there’s a cap and then just making bank on top of what is effectively a lie after probably just a few hours.

It’s an advertising stunt, with the budget of a relatively small ad campaign given their market cap. A $1M donation is good but we don’t have to just eat the scummy way they’re going about pretending to obtain the money. We are allowed to expect less marketing scumminess and better humanity.

Kids need to be reminded that being a hacker is super fucking cool, and you aren’t doing cool hackery shit on iOS.

I’m an iPhone user. But I’m also an old school hacker guy. I really want kids to learn more about this stuff.

Computing and the internet being a little bit difficult used to be a feature, not a bug. You had to learn a baseline to get involved. It wasn’t accessible, but it was effective. We need more of that.

I’m really tired of helping a Gen Z person troubleshoot a problem on their PC and them struggling to understand what a path is or how to navigate a Windows filesystem to find what they need. You know? We’re failing these kids and young adults. We’re failing them so badly. We need to make this stuff cool again.