To be clear, the analogy between AI and corporations is not good. Think of narrow AI in agriculture. As a way to be more efficient and reduce the use of pesticides you might have a smart machine that recognizes invasive plants and destroys then with a laser. It can't do much else when not in a field with plants it recognizes. You might be able to teach that same smart machine to recognize people and shoot them with a gun, which is bad, but currently there is no way to extend this narrow AI into a malicious artificial general intelligence (AGI) that goes around killing people. A corporation is similarly narrow when it grows and sells food. That kind of company doesn't have the infrastructure to make and sell washing machines, but they might start with repair of farm equipment, then assembly, and maybe they manufacture some custom parts, and when they get big enough they can acquire a factory to make farm equipment. And from there maybe they can get into the washing machine industry. The idea is that corporations have no limit to how big and powerful they can grow, that's why you see companies like Amazon that do online retail, grocery, IT infrastructure, and even real estate. This is an example of a runaway agent that is harmful to society. It's harmful to society because we form governments and legal systems, and entrust them with power in order to keep peace and fairness. But runaway corporations can become powerful enough to destabilize that order. Honestly, this is kind of a bad point in the context the author describes, you don't need a runaway corporation (one that is wide in scope) to be harmful, any sufficiently large corporation can do it even if they are narrow in scope.

I also think UMatrix is an improvement over NoScript. The UI is super easy to use. It would be neat to see it opened up for user themes.

I hate to say it, but I actually have a use for this new alt-tab function. My job involves significant data entry between local applications and browser tabs. It would save me a slight amount of time. Although realistically I doubt I would use it because it likely wouldn't result in a significant gain in productivity at the expense of retaining myself.

*Slow Clap*

Mint+Mate is my jam. It's the perfect middle of the road DE, just ever so slightly better than XFCE.

DuckDuckGo has shown favicons for years and I find it helps me to visually scan search results. Although I can definitely understand how others might see it as clutter. It does look a little messy in Google, but not so much DuckDuckGo, which has a cleaner look (IMO).

This was fairly common where I grew up in Chicago. I was raised by my Depression Era grandparents and in the fridge was a lot of meat that was on sale at the time and previously prepared frozen meals. We also had a big family so the extra fridge made things easier at the holidays when two dozen people would come over.