TThe epigram for my forthcoming book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It is a quote from Ed Zitron: "I hate them for what they've done to the computer" (Ed even recorded a little cameo of this for the audiobook):
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
"A 1930s editorial cartoon depicting a bloated baseball player labeled 'Monopoly Giants' sliding into home base but falling short. He is being tagged by a smaller, weaker player labeled 'consumer.' An umpire is striding into the frame, declaring the monopolist to be safe. The image has been altered: the slider has the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The ump has the head of Robert Bork. The consumer has the head of a foolishly grinning child laborer, photographed at the turn of the 20th century.
He dictated that his back-office staff could not work from home (imagine a telco boss who doesn't believe in telework!), and those back-offices all turned into super-spreader sites. Rutledge's field workers - the people who came to our homes and upgraded our internet so we could work from home - did not get PPE or danger pay. Instead, they got vouchers exclusively redeemable at restaurants that had shut down during the pandemic:
Trying out best to get the Gauge 1 Thomas done, Thought we'd make a little MEME Post about the amount of prints we've had to do to get a design that sorta works.
Rutger Vink en Thomas van Grinsven vonden het heel gek om zichzelf te spelen in hun eerste bioscoopfilm De Film van Rutger, Thomas & Paco. De twee populaire youtubers moesten zich houden aan het script en hadden niet zoveel vrijheid als in hun enthousiaste onlinevideo's. "Je wilt het zo realistisch mogelijk...
Thoughts on this? Trying to sort out the store page for the new version of my website. Still working on building the product and this is all subject to change but we are slowly getting there building not only the site but an amazing replica of Season 1 Thomas.
on the right there's a form that has two dropdown menus, type and livery followed by 3 selection buttons in the area add-ons, one for smoke mech, another for eye mech and the last one for snowplow.
Below is a blue button with the text 'calculate price'
Under that is a price of £1550
bellow everything there's a long description of the product.
Hate the player AND the game ( pluralistic.net )
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Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' ( pluralistic.net )
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