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Wayward DP said:
I'll admit I originally thought this was about the bee product, and not a chrome extension.

but holy shit. yall know my tolerance for videos - I watched the whole 20+ mins of this one.

somewhere out there a class-action lawyer is licking his chops


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The word of the decade is enshitification.

It's like the economy isn't even trying to reward innovation that isn't some fintech or financialized bullshit, some sort of grift or exploit, some sort of "disruption" meant to make an existing product or service worse after using VC money to push the incumbent out.
 
MindzEye said:
The word of the decade is enshitification.

It's like the economy isn't even trying to reward innovation that isn't some fintech or financialized bullshit, some sort of grift or exploit, some sort of "disruption" meant to make an existing product or service worse after using VC money to push the incumbent out.
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yeah it really sucks.

we're the first generation in... I don't actually know how long... where things are getting objectively shittier. i.e. life expectancy decreasing.

and then you look at things like air travel... as I've gotten older you simply pay more and receive less. and that is not unique to air travel.

and of course the whole democratic project is currently being phased out and we don't know what will replace it. hopefully not some variant of worldwide oligarchy.
 
MindzEye said:
The word of the decade is enshitification.
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Cory Doctorow (who coined the term) is a regular read of mine. As is Ed Zitron.

I’m optimistic things will get better as this whole internet thing is relatively new…. the printing press was first used for religious pamphlets and conspiracies before worthwhile texts were produced
 
CH1 said:
Cory Doctorow (who coined the term) is a regular read of mine. As is Ed Zitron.

I’m optimistic things will get better as this whole internet thing is relatively new…. the printing press was first used for religious pamphlets and conspiracies before worthwhile texts were produced
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Overall, it's still better than it is terrible. But oh, it's so terrible so many times, and everything being remote, there's so many ways to sneak in how terrible things are.

It's really mostly though that we've all just gotten too used to and rely on everything being free, people have to find creative ways to make money off of people. Modern culture (me included, don't get me wrong) can't handle the thought of paying, so it just comes down to who can make the most money off of me without me knowing it at this point.
 
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UWHabs said:
Overall, it's still better than it is terrible. But oh, it's so terrible so many times, and everything being remote, there's so many ways to sneak in how terrible things are.

It's really mostly though that we've all just gotten too used to and rely on everything being free, people have to find creative ways to make money off of people. Modern culture (me included, don't get me wrong) can't handle the thought of paying, so it just comes down to who can make the most money off of me without me knowing it at this point.
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I'm still on the fence on whether it's net better TBH. But I'll reserve judgement on long term potential.
 
Anybody get this weird email from "MNP" regarding a interac e-transfer payment ($36.29) today?

Inside the email was something like this:


Seems to be related to this:

www.iphoneincanada.ca

Mysterious $36.29 e-Transfer from MNP? Why Facebook Sent You Money • iPhone in Canada Blog

If you’ve recently received an Interac e-transfer for $36.29 from MNP, it’s part of the settlement for Facebook’s Sponsored Stories class action lawsuit. The case centred on Facebook allegedly using users’ names and profile pictures in ads without their consent, violating privacy laws in B.C...
www.iphoneincanada.ca www.iphoneincanada.ca

Still seems pretty sketchy since they got my "facebook name" wrong.:ROFLMAO:
 
Like I heard this comic say, we should never have been prevented from bullying nerds in high school for being super weird…

That was society’s self correcting mechanism and now we are paying the price for letting the nerds get away with our shittification
 
CH1 said:
Cory Doctorow (who coined the term) is a regular read of mine. As is Ed Zitron.

I’m optimistic things will get better as this whole internet thing is relatively new…. the printing press was first used for religious pamphlets and conspiracies before worthwhile texts were produced
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I read a lot of science-fiction, and books quite often start with a timeline...and we are in one of the bad blips, unfortunately.

One day some kid on Mars will be studying this period in history and we might end up one question on the exam.
 
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