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I am a person of limited means and I have a small collection of early/first edition books that are precious to me. The idea some fucking deadeyed linkedin midwit shredding them so precious Bonathon can prompt more persuasive facebook posts that convince boomers to buy essential oils. I will kill you
There's now a whole website tracking products that got worse on purpose — cost-cutting, private equity, enshittification, all catalogued as they happen.
Products are getting worse on purpose
Worse on Purpose is a website about the decline in product quality and the forces driving it, ranging from mundane cost-cutting to enshittification. Private equity is a regular theme, but…
boingboing.net
All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.
A thread, because things are feeling rough at present. 🧵👇 I'm not quite sure where to go or what to do. I'm watching my peers slowly burn out, go quiet, quit the industry, or struggle on hoping it'll get better in time. Even if the storm is weathered, what comes out the other side?
If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over
Solar just produced more electricity than coal in the US for the first month ever and it won't be the last... Over the last two decades, the role of coal and solar in the US mix has changed drastically May 2006: 🪨 48%, ☀️ 0% May 2016: 🪨 26%, ☀️ 2% May 2026: 🪨 12%, ☀️ 13%
Wild to see every VC funded and publicly traded tech company rebrand to being an AI company Paging company —> the platform for AI-first operations CDN —> AI Cloud Helpdesk software —> AI-powered helpdesk platform o11y —> AI-powered intelligent o11y Everywhere…
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
i envision a utopian future for technology, where when you launch your computer there are no more programs, no more browsers, but just 4 buttons that say "Gamble", "Goon", "AI", and "Borrow Money At An Exorbitant Interest Rate"
