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Enshittification is the intentional degradation of products as companies shift focus from pleasing consumers to maximizing profits for shareholders.
The Norwegian Consumer Council hate enshittification and they’re using humour to fight it.
🎥 @newslab.no
So I’m about a month out from not being able to make ends meet financially. I finally just got moved into my new place and am able to take interviews online and job hunt more seriously. I decided to try #Indeed as a hopefully less evil alternative to #LinkedIn. Never used any of these sites before, only the American Mathematical Society’s job board (mathjobs.org).
They want a resume right away. Fine, I submit my CV. I then get a bunch of “AI summary” of various parts of my CV, all pretty much totally wrong. Okay, at least I can decline each of the suggestions. But then I get to this, where I must affirm that the LLM was fucking accurate. I don’t know, man, I don’t know if I want to pay my rent bad enough to click that box.
Slopbots are turbocapital. I was just looking at how apparently each “token” costs a certain amount of money and higher “effort settings” cost more but a new version has it cost less on some settings I guess. Why would someone feel like it’s a good idea to spend money on… having a computer think for you?
So, it is terrorism to sit on on the floor and show a cardboard sign… but no one is punished when corporate “AIs” hack government systems?
Truly amazing.
I’ve never been a Digital Ocean customer. But they’re really taking a nose dive right now.
First, they offer healthy financial support for the fascist Linux project, otherwise known as Omarchy. Now they’re killing one of the best CSS resources around, @csstricks@mastodon.social.
How are they killing it? Well, they’re giving SO much money to fascism that they can no longer afford the small potatoes of a CSS community knowledge base.
As @eric@social.ericwbailey.website points out, so many of us front-end developers are indebted to CSS Tricks. The authors there have been invaluable to my own skillset.
ericwbailey.website/published/…
It’s painful to see this kind of thing happening. I hate fascism and death by capitalism.
With some news it is hard to tell if the fever returned or an “AI” went mad:
Russian oligarch financed the wedding of one of Trump’s sons…
Lovely capitalism, where you can buy nearly anything - like the US president’s son…
