Zhi Zhu 🕸️
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"I don't think that personal consumption choices can fix systemic problems. You're not going to fix #enshittification – let alone tyranny – by shopping, even if you're very careful.

But that doesn't mean that there isn't a connection between the unfair bullshit that monopolies cram down our throat and the rise of #fascism. It's not just that the worst enshittifiers also the biggest #Trump donors, it's that Wilhoit's Law powers enshittification."
- @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/#then-they-came-for-me

#USPol

Text from article: Look, I don't think that personal consumption choices can fix systemic problems. You're not going to fix enshittification – let alone tyranny – by shopping, even if you're very careful: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems But that doesn't mean that there isn't a connection between the unfair bullshit that monopolies cram down our throat and the rise of fascism. It's not just that the worst enshittifiers also the biggest Trump donors, it's that Wilhoit's Law powers enshittification. Wiloitism is shot through the Maga movement. The Flu Klux Klan wants to ban you from wearing a mask for health reasons, but they will defend to the death the right of ICE brownshirts to run around in gaiters and Oakleys as they kidnap our neighbors off the streets. Conservative bedwetters will donate six figures to a Givesendgo set up by some crybaby with a viral Rumble video about getting 86'ed from a restaurant for wearing a Maga hat, but they literally want to imprison trans people for wearing clothes that don't conform to their assigned-at-birth genders.
Text from article: Look, I don't think that personal consumption choices can fix systemic problems. You're not going to fix enshittification – let alone tyranny – by shopping, even if you're very careful: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems But that doesn't mean that there isn't a connection between the unfair bullshit that monopolies cram down our throat and the rise of fascism. It's not just that the worst enshittifiers also the biggest Trump donors, it's that Wilhoit's Law powers enshittification. Wiloitism is shot through the Maga movement. The Flu Klux Klan wants to ban you from wearing a mask for health reasons, but they will defend to the death the right of ICE brownshirts to run around in gaiters and Oakleys as they kidnap our neighbors off the streets. Conservative bedwetters will donate six figures to a Givesendgo set up by some crybaby with a viral Rumble video about getting 86'ed from a restaurant for wearing a Maga hat, but they literally want to imprison trans people for wearing clothes that don't conform to their assigned-at-birth genders.
Text from article: Look, I don't think that personal consumption choices can fix systemic problems. You're not going to fix enshittification – let alone tyranny – by shopping, even if you're very careful: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems But that doesn't mean that there isn't a connection between the unfair bullshit that monopolies cram down our throat and the rise of fascism. It's not just that the worst enshittifiers also the biggest Trump donors, it's that Wilhoit's Law powers enshittification. Wiloitism is shot through the Maga movement. The Flu Klux Klan wants to ban you from wearing a mask for health reasons, but they will defend to the death the right of ICE brownshirts to run around in gaiters and Oakleys as they kidnap our neighbors off the streets. Conservative bedwetters will donate six figures to a Givesendgo set up by some crybaby with a viral Rumble video about getting 86'ed from a restaurant for wearing a Maga hat, but they literally want to imprison trans people for wearing clothes that don't conform to their assigned-at-birth genders.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"I don't think that personal consumption choices can fix systemic problems. You're not going to fix #enshittification – let alone tyranny – by shopping, even if you're very careful.

But that doesn't mean that there isn't a connection between the unfair bullshit that monopolies cram down our throat and the rise of #fascism. It's not just that the worst enshittifiers also the biggest #Trump donors, it's that Wilhoit's Law powers enshittification."
- @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/#then-they-came-for-me

#USPol

Text from article: Look, I don't think that personal consumption choices can fix systemic problems. You're not going to fix enshittification – let alone tyranny – by shopping, even if you're very careful: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems But that doesn't mean that there isn't a connection between the unfair bullshit that monopolies cram down our throat and the rise of fascism. It's not just that the worst enshittifiers also the biggest Trump donors, it's that Wilhoit's Law powers enshittification. Wiloitism is shot through the Maga movement. The Flu Klux Klan wants to ban you from wearing a mask for health reasons, but they will defend to the death the right of ICE brownshirts to run around in gaiters and Oakleys as they kidnap our neighbors off the streets. Conservative bedwetters will donate six figures to a Givesendgo set up by some crybaby with a viral Rumble video about getting 86'ed from a restaurant for wearing a Maga hat, but they literally want to imprison trans people for wearing clothes that don't conform to their assigned-at-birth genders.
Text from article: Look, I don't think that personal consumption choices can fix systemic problems. You're not going to fix enshittification – let alone tyranny – by shopping, even if you're very careful: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems But that doesn't mean that there isn't a connection between the unfair bullshit that monopolies cram down our throat and the rise of fascism. It's not just that the worst enshittifiers also the biggest Trump donors, it's that Wilhoit's Law powers enshittification. Wiloitism is shot through the Maga movement. The Flu Klux Klan wants to ban you from wearing a mask for health reasons, but they will defend to the death the right of ICE brownshirts to run around in gaiters and Oakleys as they kidnap our neighbors off the streets. Conservative bedwetters will donate six figures to a Givesendgo set up by some crybaby with a viral Rumble video about getting 86'ed from a restaurant for wearing a Maga hat, but they literally want to imprison trans people for wearing clothes that don't conform to their assigned-at-birth genders.
Text from article: Look, I don't think that personal consumption choices can fix systemic problems. You're not going to fix enshittification – let alone tyranny – by shopping, even if you're very careful: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems But that doesn't mean that there isn't a connection between the unfair bullshit that monopolies cram down our throat and the rise of fascism. It's not just that the worst enshittifiers also the biggest Trump donors, it's that Wilhoit's Law powers enshittification. Wiloitism is shot through the Maga movement. The Flu Klux Klan wants to ban you from wearing a mask for health reasons, but they will defend to the death the right of ICE brownshirts to run around in gaiters and Oakleys as they kidnap our neighbors off the streets. Conservative bedwetters will donate six figures to a Givesendgo set up by some crybaby with a viral Rumble video about getting 86'ed from a restaurant for wearing a Maga hat, but they literally want to imprison trans people for wearing clothes that don't conform to their assigned-at-birth genders.
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NicoYozone 🔻📚
@NicoYozone@toot.portes-imaginaire.org  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Windows11 au boulot (sur des minipc prévus pour W10), nouveau message délirant : tellement peu de mémoire dispo que Libreoffice ne peut pas sauvegarder le document courant ! (de 150ko)

Car l'OS prend 55 Go du disque, les sessions (poste partagé) 35 Go, les applis 22Go la mémoire tampon et les maj en attente entre 8 et 10 Go... sur un total de 118 on est bons !

et la DSI (et la collectivité) qui bien sûr ne veut pas entendre parler de Linux...
#windows11 #enshittification #monopol
NicoYozone 🔻📚
@NicoYozone@toot.portes-imaginaire.org  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Windows11 au boulot (sur des minipc prévus pour W10), nouveau message délirant : tellement peu de mémoire dispo que Libreoffice ne peut pas sauvegarder le document courant ! (de 150ko)

Car l'OS prend 55 Go du disque, les sessions (poste partagé) 35 Go, les applis 22Go la mémoire tampon et les maj en attente entre 8 et 10 Go... sur un total de 118 on est bons !

et la DSI (et la collectivité) qui bien sûr ne veut pas entendre parler de Linux...
#windows11 #enshittification #monopol
einfachnurRoland
@einfachnurRoland@nrw.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@NatureMC
@Fischblog
Jaja, die guten alten Zeiten, als man nach einer Google-Suche noch ein SUCH-Ergebnis angezeigt bekommen hat.

Ich habe die #Enshittification des Internetz nicht bestellt, bekomme sie trotzdem geliefert.

Genau wie den Klimawandel. Können wir uns darauf verständigen, dass Entscheidungsträger Entscheidungen tragen. Und große Menschen viel Verantwortung an der Enthropie der Welt haben, im Gegensatz zu uns?!

@leyrer @heiglandreas @pjakobs
Axel Stieglbauer
@AxelStieglbauer@social.tchncs.de  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@SheDrivesMobility nach @pluralistic tendieren Plattformen zur #Enshittification . Auch dagegen müssen wir angehen. In seinem Buch „The Internet Con. How to Seize the Means of Computation“ beschreibt Cory Doctorow mehrfach den Zusammenhang zwischen der Kontrolle von Technologien und anderen Problemen, die wir zu lösen haben.

🧵 1/2

opio ⏚
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Justin du Coeur
@jducoeur@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Very much a #Kickstarter for our times -- @pluralistic has assembled his thoughts on the concept of #Enshittification into a book: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/enshittification-the-drm-free-audiobook

The audiobook is self-published as usual (to work around The Audible Problem), and I'm expecting it to be fascinating.

Check it out!
Justin du Coeur
@jducoeur@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Very much a #Kickstarter for our times -- @pluralistic has assembled his thoughts on the concept of #Enshittification into a book: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/enshittification-the-drm-free-audiobook

The audiobook is self-published as usual (to work around The Audible Problem), and I'm expecting it to be fascinating.

Check it out!
Timnit Gebru (she/her)
@timnitGebru@dair-community.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Truly wild reading.

"If such a prompt injection is included in a submission and it consequently results in a positive LLM-generated review, we consider this a form of collusion (which, as per past precedent, is a Code of Ethics violation) that both the paper authors and the reviewer would be held accountable for, because it involves the author explicitly requesting and receiving a positive review.

https://blog.iclr.cc/2025/08/26/policies-on-large-language-model-usage-at-iclr-2026/
Brian Knutson
@knutson_brain@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@timnitGebru
#AI #enshittification ouroboros : conference paper edition
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"The audiobooks and ebooks I sell through my Kickstarters are sold without any DRM, and also without any "terms and conditions." You are buying these books, not "licensing" them. That means you can do anything with these books that copyright law allows: sell 'em, give 'em away, lend 'em to a friend. Just don't violate copyright law and we're cool.

This book, Enshittification, synthesizes all the essays, speeches and panels I've done on the subject of platform decay into a single, coherent argument designed to be accessible to everyone, even (especially) your normie friends who know that everything sucks but don't understand why and are paralyzed about what to do about it.

Enshittification will change the way you see the world, and just might change the world itself. Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist.

The book's not out until October – it'll be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US/Canada) and Verso (UK/Commonwealth), but it's already getting fantastic early notices. The Financial Times has already longlisted it for 2025's best business book of the year:"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/25/disenshittified-audiobooks/#canny-valley

#Enshittification#Audiobooks#Audible#Kickstarter#Amazon#eBooks
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"The audiobooks and ebooks I sell through my Kickstarters are sold without any DRM, and also without any "terms and conditions." You are buying these books, not "licensing" them. That means you can do anything with these books that copyright law allows: sell 'em, give 'em away, lend 'em to a friend. Just don't violate copyright law and we're cool.

This book, Enshittification, synthesizes all the essays, speeches and panels I've done on the subject of platform decay into a single, coherent argument designed to be accessible to everyone, even (especially) your normie friends who know that everything sucks but don't understand why and are paralyzed about what to do about it.

Enshittification will change the way you see the world, and just might change the world itself. Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist.

The book's not out until October – it'll be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US/Canada) and Verso (UK/Commonwealth), but it's already getting fantastic early notices. The Financial Times has already longlisted it for 2025's best business book of the year:"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/25/disenshittified-audiobooks/#canny-valley

#Enshittification#Audiobooks#Audible#Kickstarter#Amazon#eBooks
Niklas Pivic
@pivic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Google will require developer verification to install Android apps: https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

This is exactly why Google can't be trusted... banning sideloading for the benefit of 'user safety'? Have they learned nothing from Apple and why power users want to sideload apps?

Monopoly monopsony...

#google #sideloading #enshittification @pluralistic #monopoly#android
Niklas Pivic
@pivic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Google will require developer verification to install Android apps: https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

This is exactly why Google can't be trusted... banning sideloading for the benefit of 'user safety'? Have they learned nothing from Apple and why power users want to sideload apps?

Monopoly monopsony...

#google #sideloading #enshittification @pluralistic #monopoly#android

Dan Gillmor
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Dave Rahardja (he/him)
@drahardja@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
#Flock cameras says that it has “paused its operations with federal agencies” because their system has been used for ICE enforcement.

“Pausing” operations means that they HAVE BEEN ALLOWING IT until now.

Flock makes money per query. They are incentivized to allow “law enforcement” types to query their systems for as many things as they want, including tracking people down for violating anti-abortion laws, suspected “immigration” issues, and who knows what else.

Your tax dollars are paying for this. Flock cameras should be taken down.

#surveillance #kakistocracy #enshittification#FlockCameras#ALPR

“License plate camera company halts cooperation with federal agencies among investigation concerns”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/license-plate-camera-company-halts-225436172.html
Dave Rahardja (he/him)
@drahardja@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
#Flock cameras says that it has “paused its operations with federal agencies” because their system has been used for ICE enforcement.

“Pausing” operations means that they HAVE BEEN ALLOWING IT until now.

Flock makes money per query. They are incentivized to allow “law enforcement” types to query their systems for as many things as they want, including tracking people down for violating anti-abortion laws, suspected “immigration” issues, and who knows what else.

Your tax dollars are paying for this. Flock cameras should be taken down.

#surveillance #kakistocracy #enshittification#FlockCameras#ALPR

“License plate camera company halts cooperation with federal agencies among investigation concerns”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/license-plate-camera-company-halts-225436172.html