@tillybridges Once, Amazon's algorithm was the envy of search platforms, but it has been bastardized by their advertising arm for at least a decade now. Search results are overwhelmed with ads. As a fellow author, I've run some informal tests and "lost" books are unusually common. It's crazy, but the BEST way to find a book on Amazon is to search for it using Google... sigh... #enshitification is real
M’encanta l’optimisme crític de @pluralistic : Resulta que no cal escollir entre combatre la merdificació i tenir amics!
Els problemes sistèmics s’han d’atacar com a societat que som.
I would love to see a study on how the retail sector has been in Quebec in the last 15 months.
My guess, better overall for the economy and society in the form of:
- More face-to-face interactions
- More street retail foot traffic
- Higher average wages for store employees
- Higher overall wages as there is a higher ratio of entrepreneurship
I'm just speculating here, hence me wanting a study!
@randomized @woollypigs Given the common #enshitification that has made its rounds among a lot of companies I prefer to be positively surprised by having a default mindset of not expecting anything (like quality service), rather than being negatively surprised by expecting always a good service. Not a pessimist, more like a realist…
“GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation”
“GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and GitHub is moving even closer into Microsoft’s CoreAI team.”
Enshitification is running.
#enshitification at work:
I’m the guy who clicked ’not happy’ because I got an email saying my flowers were delivered today instead of tomorrow as ordered.
I can’t find my ‘not happy’ item anywhere to delete, and if I click the happy face it wants me to ’sign in to google’ to write something, but I’m not on google and don’t plan to join.
Maybe there’s some system thing you can do with google?
I do thank you for your prompt call and explanation.
If you look something up on Google and none of the first results fit exactly what you're looking for, don't beat yourself up. You're not doing anything wrong. Google search is optimized for its customers (advertisers), not the user (you).
I just hate #YouTube auto dubbing feature as there is no button on m.YouTube.com to get original audio track. #enshitification
There’s a strong redundancy in posts and content related to #enshitification, bad big tech, digital apocalypse to come and other topics covered in "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (a surprisingly good book, btw). Trivialized a little, it becomes a cliche.
At work over a lunch break, an intern talked this subject with me. She’s a 20-something tumor biologist, I’m a 30-something protein chemist, aren't we indifferent to all these silly existential problems IT pals have? No, redundancy creates visibility. Keep it cliche, keep it trivial, keep it vocal.
Has Win11 completely screwed up the relationship between PrintScreen and Paint for some reason?!??!?
No longer can I screen print, paste, crop and do things with transient content apparently.....
It seems to me that a bunch of CEOs who are looking forward to replacing their staff with AI are the same ones who aren't happy with having to negotiate with a union.
Hoo boy, you think unions are bad, just wait until your entire workforce belongs to an AI company.
And if you think your AI tech company 'partner' isn't going to fuck you over, you should read what @pluralistic has to say about #enshitification.
That's the new feature to get you into downloading the App.
"Oh you wanna have better quality? why not download our great App so we can track everything you do to sell you more Adds, and dont forget to create an account and send us your mail, address and phone number first."
Então já só temos direito a uma versão simplificada do IPMA? Não me digam que também vão cortar orçamento aí #enshitification
When the product is free you are the product.
But it's worse than that.
Why would big corporations, usually so protective of their brands, go out of their way to annoy their customers?
Is your data so valuable to them ?
Well, no.
Not to *them*, but they get revenue from their 'partners'.
Often hundreds of them.
They get paid to frustrate their customers because they serve another master.
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Holy shit this is good
‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as 'new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask'
Cath 
