Hegar

It’s not outside capital that leads to enshittification, it’s leverage that enshittifies a service.

A VC that understands that they can force you to wreck your users’ lives is always in danger of doing so. A VC who understands that doing this will make your service into an empty – and thus worthless – server is far less likely to do so (and if they do, at least your users can escape).

Incredibly clear article pointing out that no individuals will ever be able to resist enshittifaction pressures indefinitely.

The only way to prevent people with power from emiserating others is to structurally remove any benefit to doing so.

It’s just a lie. I don’t think it’s meant to hold up to scrutiny, it’s just meant to be repeated.

Some people love to dry hump strangers on a crowded bus or train, is that more like it?

I have to admit I don’t understand what connection this has with paying for music apps.

I’m pretty sure if you’re paying for it, that’s not love.

Didnt we already know that elon opened starlink to the russians? I thought he announced after that call with putin?

Sticking together is what good pastas do.

impacts small indie artists

How?

I read the article but I don’t understand how bots making and listening to songs to generate royalties for the bot owners affects anyone but the royalty-payers?

Yeah this is just another case of apple diehards forgetting the rest of the world exists. Almost everyone still has earbuds with cords.

I’ve heard so many right wingers claim that Californians aren’t real americans, and yet here they are trying to shoot their way out of the consequences of large scale systemic failures.

Zuck has had staunch republican assets on the board and at the highest levels of the company for ages. They’ve boosted fascist content and pushed outright lies on behalf of trump for almost 10 years now.

FB doesn’t need to get on the good side of the far right, they’re already on the same side.

The only problem I can see with this plan is the volume of unpennied vs pennied graves. I think the best bet is to get a shovel and $100 worth of pennies then head to the graveyard.

Future archaeologists will be left to ponder the ritual significance of this object. Why were so many people buried with this grave good?

I think the allusion is probably to clouds, given that project nimbus is amazon and google cloud updating the israeli government’s cloud computing and nimbus is latin for cloud. The israeli government is generally not as big on christian metaphors as the US government is.

This is part of Leonard Leo’s plan to re-mccarthy-ize US society and purge anyone left of fascist, same way he orchestrated the right wing take over of our courts.

Every time someone tries to convince me that apples aren’t just garbage fruit they ask, “but have you tried honey crisps?” Yeah, have you tried any other fruit? The worst fruit from the tropics is just way better than the best apple.