https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/post/3ly6tyokzfk2x?ref_src=embed
All that money can’t buy self respect i guess. Everything about this is so awful an embarrassing. Note who isn’t invited? haha these stupid creeps trying to ruin the world aren’t even like evil geniuses, they’re just pathetic.
He has /very/ good PR. It’s gross, he’s a sexpest that fucked computer education in order to perpetually extract rent from basically every government, company, and educational institution. Tried to destroy the commons that gave rise to the technology he got rich with, and probablyremovedd kids with epstein.
But his shitty charity does work that is only mostly useless so whatever I guess.
Microsoft directly profited from the conflicts and genocides across Africa in the '90s. This includes the Rwandan Genocide, Sierra Leone Civil War, 1st. and 2nd. Congolese wars, and the Somalian Civil War. All of these were scrambles for materials used in computers (such as gold, cobalt, and tin).
The leadership at Microsoft, including Bill Gates, knew their products were using unethically sourced materials used to fund warlords and terrorist groups, but looked the other way because it was cheaper. These materials were often mined by child and slave labor.
Quick overview of the problem as it has continued, despite Microsoft releasing annual conflict mineral reports each year since 2019:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/microsofts-concerning-conflict-minerals-disclosure-reflects-industry-wide-slippage
Not a bad time to plug Linux, it’s as easy if not easier to use than Windows or MacOS, it doesn’t come with US 3-letter agency backdoors, and it’s not covered in the blood of genocides.
The vast majority of major newspapers are also dependent on his fund to keep operating their essential for image, but unprofitable investigative units too so they’ll never write anything negative about him. Bezos bought a couple of papers wholesale, but Gates realised two decades ago that you could just buy up a load-bearing pillar in hundreds of papers around the world instead.