everybody "amazed" by "recommendation engines" should read this: https://www.amazon.com/Mood-Machine-Spotify-Perfect-Playlist/dp/1668083507

I'm personally so glad I'm not only not on a #Spotify plan, but I don't use the service what so fuckin ever. If I want niche i go soundcloud and bandcamp and occasionially buy directly from artits (I hope).

If I'm looking for confirmation something is good and I haven't missed it, I go to https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ and check reviews. Also #metacritic and then try to buy it. If I can't I download it this way or another... still better to discover and acknowledge artists than the fucked up "recommendation engine".

#commoditization of #music #services is bad!

Health is not a deliverable commodity and care does not come out of a system.
-- Ivan Illich

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IvanIllich #Commoditization #Health #Healthcare

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Rainbow #MississippiRiver #Iowa

openai burns the boats - by Ethan Ding - mandates
https://ethanding.substack.com/p/openai-burns-the-boats

#AI #Business #Economics #Commoditization #Advertising #CloudComputing

AI does not reason. It applies probabilities.

It's like eating an apple and assuming that everything will be as tasty: http://data.yt/kit/how-ai-works.html

#longRead #commoditization #acceleration #work #HR #productivity #GenerativeAI #AI #risk #risks #AIRisks #data #services #agenticAI #agents #chatBots #alienation #intelligence #tech #technoCritique #technique #technologie #control #capitalism #compliance #bias #ethics #employment #jobs #labor #labour #labourMarket #laborMarket #IT

‘Artificial intelligence’ accelerates the commoditization of paid employment.

I show you the driving forces in a long article: http://data.yt/kit/how-ai-works.html

#longRead #commoditization #acceleration #work #HR #productivity #GenerativeAI #AI #data #services #agenticAI #agents #AISlop #decay #enshittification #chatBots #alienation #intelligence #tech #technology #control #capitalism #compliance #bias #ethics #opportunities #corporate #business #employment #jobs #labor #labour #labourMarket #laborMarket

To the extent that health care becomes a commodity it becomes distributed just like champagne. That is rich people get lots of it. Poor people don’t get any of it.
-- Julian Tudor Hart (Inverse Care Law)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JulianTudorHart #Commoditization #Healthcare #Inequality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

#semiconductors are becoming commodities

The market flooding of legacy chips coming from China is beginning in full, as predicted when China first announced its ramp-up of mature node production in 2023.

"There is already oversupply in several types of mature chips, and China's economy hasn't fully bounced back yet," says the IDC's Galen Zeng. "We expect Chinese players to ramp up more aggressively than their global peers over the next few years, driven by China's localization push."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinas-mature-chips-to-make-up-28-percent-of-world-production-creating-oversupply-western-companies-express-concern-for-their-survival

#chips #computing #hardware #commoditization

"Humanity has endured for 1 million years for one simple reason: it is bound by limits. It is effectively regulated, and it is this regulation that lies at the heart of its genius.
[…]
"Capital very quickly relied on the sciences, and this was not simply the result of cultural impregnation.

"Classical science separates and analyses. All capital relies on this powerful process and adds to it control through quantification. A principle of devitalisation at the heart of modern technique.

"This thanatocratic principle of capital, without which it is nothing, takes place in three stages: privatisation of the means, industrialisation of devitalisation, and being as a commodity."

Thread in French: https://piaille.fr/@Ciriaco/113083670282268574 by @Ciriaco

#acceleration #convergence #commoditization #commodities #accelerate #criticalTheory #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #tech #BigTech #technology #agriculture #science #supremacy #climateBreakdown #globalHeating #digitalization #engineers #separation #data #climateCollapse

As long as medical treatment has been a commodity to be bought and sold, the quality of treatment has varied according to the social status of patients.
-- S. Hogarth (Narrative-Based Medicine)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SHogarth #Commoditization #Healthcare #Narrative #SocialJustice

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

"Technique is no longer some uncertain and incomplete intermediary between humanity and the natural milieu. The latter is totally dominated and utilized (in Western society). Technique now constitutes a fabric of its own, replacing nature."

– Jacques Ellul in “Recherche pour une Ethique dans une société technicienne,” Morale et Enseignement, 1983, page 7

#acceleration #convergence #commoditization #commodities #accelerate #criticalTheory #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #tech #BigTech #technology #book #quote #quotes #agriculture

"Reclaiming the use of digital devices at the receiving end does nothing to change the whole technical system. Digital technologies cannot be reclaimed, because they are the fruit of a mass society, of a society of experts, constituted of domination and exploitation, of complex and gigantic infrastructures from which citizens can only be dispossessed."

Julia Laïnae, Nicolas Alep in "Contre l'alternumérisme", 2020

#commoditization #commodities #acceleration #accelerate #criticalTheory #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #tech #BigTech #technology #book #quote #quotes

You Can't Put a Price on Nature

https://itsfreezinginla.com/articles/but-at-what-cost

Adrienne Buller asks if capitalistic financing can every truly account for all the dynamism and complexity of the natural world.

“Just as men are converted into commodities, so every aspect of nature is converted into a commodity, a resource to be manufactured and merchandised wantonly. … The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.”
― Murray Bookchin

#commoditization #naturalworld #plunder #valueassessment #myopicview #disenfranchised

[My Days with Sound] on the role of social media algorithms and AI in the commoditization of art
https://youtu.be/kHe4wwF9O6Q
#Algorithm #Commoditization #art #Music #SocialMedia #MobileMedia #Smartphones #AI #ArtificialIntelligence