Apple CEO's visit to Mar-a-Lago caused my iPhone to throw up on my Mac laptop, by Hal M/ Brown

This was the the top HuffPost story this morning.

It prompted me to spend some time using AI to create an illustration of Cook bending at the knees before King Trump. AI created a king and I added Trump's rather large head. Oddly, the gods of AI made the man on his knees resemble Tim Cook so I left this alone.

On the left is the original AI image:

This is what I posted on BlueSky:

I was hoping to upgrade my iPhone and Mac laptops in a year or so to the newest Apple devices. Now I am rethinking this. If another company becomes the BlueSky of tech I may buy those products. 

I can see a company which makes cell phones and laptops, probably a much smaller company than Apple, promoting themselves as a company not beholden to the autocratic leader of the United States. 

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Some day in the not too distant future we may look back at these people the way the industrialists who collaborated with the Nazi's are viewed today. Consider the following sample of articles about this:

In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power

Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis

How Big Business Bailed Out the Nazis

A tragic tale of what can go wrong when profits are entangled with politics.

Secret Meeting of 20 February 1933 from Wikipedia

Addendum:

In case you missed it: Trump Taps Anti-Trans Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to Lead DOJ Civil Rights Post

If you aren't familiar with BlueSky, here's an article from Z NET: 

7 things to know about Bluesky before you join - and why you should

Yesterday I wrote a science fiction fantasy about the drones really being an advance force from an alien civilization preparing humans for an intervention which would reset our world and set it back on a course of peaceful coexistence between neighbors and countries. Today there are reports of more sightings and there has been no explanation as to what they are. Could it be that after decades of sci-fi writers speculating about what form an alien invasion would take it is finally happening? Read the blog here:

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