Long but really good article on tech (which is increasingly indistinguishable from the fascists):

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

Long but really good article on tech (which is increasingly indistinguishable from the fascists):

"Our digital lives are actively abusive and hostile, riddled with subtle and overt cons."

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At (www.wheresyoured.at)

h/t @glitzersachen

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

"How are we not discussing the fact that so much of the internet is riddled with poison? How are we not treating the current state of the tech industry like an industrial chemical accident? Is it because there are too many people at fault? Is it because fixing it would require us to truly interrogate the fabric of a capitalist death cult?"

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

" The Rot Economy is selfish and potently neoliberal — corporations are bowed down to like gods, and the powerful only seek more, at all times, at all costs, even if...“people are harmed every time they pick up their phone.” The Rot Economy is neoliberalism’s true innovation: a kind of economic cancer that with few reasons to exist beyond “more” and few justifications beyond “if we don’t let it keep growing then everybody’s pensions blow up.” "

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

"the wider problem is bigger, and the costs are far greater. It isn’t that “everything is enshittified.” It’s that everybody’s pursuit of growth has changed the incentive behind how we generate value in the world, and software enables a specific kind of growth-lust by creating virtual nation states with their own digital despots."

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

"The onslaught of AI-generated content — facilitated, in no small part, by Google and Microsoft — has polluted our information ecosystems...This stuff — websites that state falsehoods because an AI hallucinated, or fake pictures of mushrooms and dogs that now dominate Google Images — is not going away. Like microplastics or PFAS chemicals, they’re with us forever, constantly chipping away at our understanding of reality. "

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

""These men lace our digital lives with asbestos and get told they’re geniuses for doing so because money comes out.

I don't give a shit if Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg knows my name... I care that when given so many resources and opportunities to change the world they chose to make it worse. ""

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

"Be the wrench in the machine. Be the person that explains to a friend why Facebook sucks now....Be the person who tells people that Sam Altman burns $5 billion a year on unsustainable software that destroys the environment and is built upon the large-scale larceny of creative works...Every time you do this, you destabilise them. They have succeeded in a decades-long marketing campaign where they get called geniuses for making the things that are necessary to function in society worse."