True. Google has only had ONE successful product ever.
#feilnerism: "Scalability is causing more problems than it solves. KISS rules. #DigitalSobriety #DoINeedThis? And it's equivalent to #growth in economy."
#roteconomy #enshitification @pluralistic and @edzitron really worth listening, despite all the ads. :-)
Oh hey look, Some More News did an episode on the topic that makes everyone hate talking with me for more than five minutes. Of course, they do it much better, and it can basically be summed up by this one line in the video: "Everyone laundering human suffering so the end-user can shelter themselves in plausible deniability."
That's the problem, though. This is all propped up by willful ignorance, and I have a hard time imagining enough people will take the blinders off to make a difference.
Even when I hung with IWW folks, people would still talk about their Amazon orders, like there's no alternative. There is. you've just decided your immediate "need" was more important than the well-being of every other link in the chain of misery.
I am so thankful to see someone with an audience as large as Hank Green's getting this righteously pissed off about AI. Ed Zitron is doing good work, but he's niche as fuck. Your mom has at least heard of Hank:
https://youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10?si=sKhguLMUmH0mf7L5
#AI #slop #RotEconomy #BetterOffline #NerdFighters #LateStageCapitalism
I'm trying to figure a way out of printing and framing @pluralistic 's latest:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence
But maybe I have a better idea. The @eff could put together a Most Wanted deck of playing cards of the priests and enablers of #enshittification and the #roteconomy.
Please do, and then take my money!
Pluralistic: Hate the player AND the game (10 Sep 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/
@theluddite
> do you think it explains just how much money they're willing to set on fire? And even then, what is it about AI that makes that connection?
I'm convinced by Ed Zitron's thesis of the #RotEconomy:
A huge portion of financial activity, is based on the value of tech company stocks
Tech stocks are valued only because investors expect them to grow, rapidly and forever
Tech corps that don't promise unreasonable 10×, 20×, etc. growth, are severely punished
They have *no ideas left*.
Baldur Bjarnason @baldur:
“Businesses today don’t care about management, productivity, or even costs.
“Manifestly and demonstrably, businesses only care about control over labour and stock prices and they ignore anything resembling modern management theory or related fields.”
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/disingenuous-discourse/
#LabourSuppression #RotEconomy #ParanoidBoss #GenerativeAI #GenAI #Union
"We will eat whatever slop gets scooped onto our plate as long as it's a bigger scoop than China's or Russia's."
This is an incredibly well reasoned philosophical argument against the continued encroachment of AI and the rot at the heart of our tech and our economy, but this one sentence cuts to the quick of why it will still steam-roll over us: The vast majority of the populace, at least in America, and I suspect in the larger "developed world" does not care. As long as there is reasonably palatable slop for us to consume, that's good enough to appease us. I see little islands of folks like me ranting and raving about this shit online, but do it in person, and you'll find yourself speaking with a sympathetic (but docile) choir, or folks who just... don't get it. They *like* it.
THEY LIKE IT.
They like the slop. It's good enough. It's easy. Why do I have to keep making things so difficult?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dm_UY8jCGQ
#GenAI #RotEconomy #Enshittification #Luddite #KingLudd #MainFrameBreakers
I feel like being unable to recognize AI is the perfect test for who's a perfect target to be easily replaceable by AI.
GenAI is also the real-world corollary to my hypothetical cornerstone argument against nuclear power: We have proven, time and time again, that the capitalist hunger for literal power knows no bounds. GenAI is sucking up massive amounts of energy and water, driving neighboring populations insane from the noise, and having untold consequences on the environment outside of those factors... We are already on track to outstrip current power production in an age where we need to be *decreasing* our power demands. Nuclear just creates *different* pollution, one which will quickly pile up if our power demands aren't curtailed.
But y'know, become a fucking "prompt engineer" or whatever fake-ass job you can imagine to keep propping up and legitimizing this death-cult economy.
That fact that I can't afford to live unsubsidized as a skilled mechanic and I hear people talking about training to become "prompt engineers" makes me want to start smashing servers.
I don't use Spotify, never will, and will judge you if you do.
If you love music, why don't you think artists deserve to be paid for their work?
People are so weird. Think they're so kind and ethical, and yet Spotify.
Gross.
#spotify #spotifyuserssuck #payartistsfortheirwork #roteconomy #billionairesaregarbage
Listening to Better Offline: The Era of the Business Idiot - Part 3.
Ed Zitron has been on good form this week. All three episodes in the Business Idiot series dropped this week.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000712701288
I'm running out of bullseyes to award Ed
#aifraud #techrot #roteconomy
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/post/3lqtnrfmc2k2x
Gosh, this episode of #EdZitron's ( @Zitron ) #BetterOffline should be mandatory for school classes and family gatherings. How #techMedia is ignoring the #RotEconomy, how #Apple is profiting from its #AppStore actively harming customers, and what we should be fighting for pushing against #Meta, #Google, #Microsoft & Co.
https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/what-were-fighting-for
The hype-economy (or #roteconomy) and its believers/promoters/leaders may be about to amplify the crash to come / already underway.
There isn't much there there, but they are zealots of potential (unfounded), spoiled by their privilege and the luck it affords them.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/
Even if a government weakens laws around pollution control and monitoring, removes toxic discharge laws, companies aren’t *required* to suddenly increase polluting. They choose to. Because they’re giant turds and they make more money by not having to clean themselves up. #RotEconomy
On generative AI:
"I want you to remember the names Satya Nadella, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Sundar Pichai, because they are the reason that this farce began and they must be the ones who are blamed for how it ends. " -- Ed Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/
#LLM #AI #AIBubble #SpeculativeBubble #Grift #EdZitron #Enshittification #Encrapsulation #TechBubble #RotEconomy #AiMindVirus #BrainRot #AISlop #GenerativeAI
