Love that the slop merchants are using my book to (further) enshittify Amazon, and that Amazon's terrible QA standards is letting 'em do it.
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@pluralistic I think it would be great if the Enshittification workbook walked you through using an LLM to generate an Enshittification Workbook and publish it on Amazon.
@pluralistic Eventually the slop “summaries” of popular titles will get fed into the slop summarizers and you'll be able to buy summaries of slop.
"The Key Understanding You Get from the Key Understanding You Get From Enshittification Workbook Workbook.”
Toilet training the internet.
@pluralistic not to teach my grandmother to suck eggs privacy-wise... But shouldn't you hide your location in the screenshot (sorry, just concerned)
@kuraisle The fact that I live in Burbank is a matter of public record (it's on my jacket flap!) and 91505 is the ZIP for 80% of town, but it's a good point!
“Hey, Alexa, an illustrated example of Enshittification, please.”
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry, really.
the sample chapter is so... cringe. Like you expect it to be bad, but ... its bad.
Observation #1 - $20 dollars for THAT? Who's paying $20 for that?
Observation #2 - I could make $20 for selling crap like THAT?
I'm in the wrong business. "Either I want less corruption, or more opportunities to be a part of it."
Stupid moral compass. <grumble>
Sadly Ronan Keir Thronwell has no other titles to their name, otherwise I'd suggest dubbing RKT the patron saints of slop mongering.
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