#enshittification

TIL: Whatever #ebooks or documents you put on a #Kindle, they're being indexed & uploaded automatically to the #Amazon server if the device has an internet connection. Just found out with an unpublished #manuscript that someone wanted to read on their Kindle and it ended up on the Amazon server, although it was put onto the Kindle manually via cable. Whatever you do with Amazon devices, you're adding everything to Amazon's data collection. #Enshittification #AuthorRights #IntellectualProperty

#JamesBond was pretty much the only franchise I actually followed. In between the 'splosions and the f*cking there was some reasonably intelligent storytelling going on, y'know? Now it's gonna be all product placement and sh*t. He's probably gonna be driving a Cybertruck. F*** that! 🤣 #Enshittification #Culture #Cinema https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mn9gz5x3mo

"Your #iCloud storage is full" LOL Nice try #Apple 🍎 💰 🤣 #Tech #Enshittification #Capitalism

The security bugfix iOS release 18.3.1 "fixes" the very useful bug in Apple Intelligence that stops it working if the AI language is different from the system language—and re-enables Apple Intelligence.

This is #enshittification in action, at Apple. (I turned AI off because DO NOT WANT, EVER, PERIOD.)

"The web is now hostile to people trying to browse it. Visiting a website has gone from one click to a chore of checkboxes and close buttons."

A brief history of how the web has been turned to shit...

https://garry.net/posts/the-death-of-the-web

#Web #Enshittification

@pluralistic offers the most cohesive, timely, and listenable survey of the current state of tech, its historic context, and the most proximate opportunities for resolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8

#Enshittification #SocialMedia #BigTech #Technology

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

#memes #software #webdev #enshittification

Oh FUCK YOU, Microsoft, what fresh hell is this? This just started turning up today. Whenever I start or click into a different paragraph. And there's apparently no way to turn off the "alert" bug in 365 for MacOS.

Welp. Unless I can learn to ignore it, this may be the thing that pushes me over the edge into using Open Office. (Is that the current best open replacement for Word?)

#Microsoft #Word #365 #Copilot #Enshittification

Don't blame authors if their writing is accompanied by AI-generated illustrations. Unless self-published, we rarely have any say in what images accompany our work. That being said, I'm no longer interested in sending my work off to a certain magazine now that it started using AI for illustrations. #AI #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #LitMags #enshittification #AISlop

I have been involved with the tech industry since the early 1980s - first as an employee and always as a user. It was fun and interesting and opened so many doors to me. Now, I avoid it as much as I can and choose carefully - weeding my tech garden aggressively.

“…The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma. We seem, as a society, capable of understanding that social media can hurt us, unsettle us, or make us feel crazed and angry, but I think it’s time to accept that the rest of the tech ecosystem undermines our wellbeing in an equally-insidious way. And most people don’t know it’s happening, because everybody has accepted deeply shitty conditions for the last ten years…”
#enshittification #tech https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

So Macquarie chose @pluralistic #enshittification as their word of the year last week and now Oxford chose "brain rot."

I can't help but feel there are two very different perspectives at play here: while "enshittification" correctly points the finger at the source (i.e. the services that are shittified), "brain rot" places the blame solely on the consumer, who "overconsumes material considered to be trivial or unchallenging" that just seems to somehow magically appear on their feeds.

#words

Well, at least it's not telling people to eat poisonous mushrooms or make chlorine gas. #AI #enshittification #knitting #sex #yarn

The ultimate #Google self-own: Google's AI Overview result of "enshittified google" that includes "AI Overview" as an example of enshittified Google.

#enshittification #chatbots #selfown @pluralistic

Late-stage capitalism has given way to cloud-based fiefs, and we are the serfs. I need convincing on some of the detail (e.g. how effective are they at manipulating our desires?), but mostly agree with his main argument. Pairs well with Cory Doctorow's #enshittification ideas (@pluralistic@mamot.fr).