Capitalism. The people making decisions aren’t the people doing the work. The people keeping the profits (and thus the power) aren’t the people doing the work.
I’m confident that a lot of the stuff that’s unpopular in games was put there because some ghoul thought it would be profitable, and the actual workers didn’t want to do it.
Why don’t we use this surveillance to nail the big companies that are polluting to the wall? (Because we are ruled by the worst among us.)
Sadly, no. Two ancient laptops (circa 2004, 2008) and a 20-something inch crt with no HDMI.
I have several old but working electronics and I literally haven’t been able to give them away for free. They’re probably going to end up in the eWaste trash. I don’t know if that leads to anything being reclaimed, but probably not.
I feel like stupid is consistent. Someone who is stupid will wear these glasses, and also act like the manager in this story.
Because they’re blood soaked assholes who would be facing very uncomfortable consequences if there was justice in the world.
Yeah, he’s a liar and a fool. He shouldn’t be trusted to run a lemonade stand, much less the government
I don’t know. I think some things are important. Someone who loves live music and goes to see something a few nights a week would probably be happier with someone else who, all other things equal, had a similar interest. If you’re looking to pair people up in ways that won’t work long term, because you’re a company of ghouls looking to make money, then matching the music lover with the music disliker is better for your business. With enough data points, you can probably make some confident predictions.
Hinge also isn’t making you pick from dichotomies. You enter free text for most of it, and pick as many from a list as you like for others.
This was Hinge, which is owned by Match Group (who own okcupid and many others). It’s the least bad, I found, but that is extremely faint praise.
I used to use OKCupid way back. It used to be better. I’m pretty sure you could search. Like you could just type in “Star Trek” or “Dark Souls” and find people who had that on their profile. Nowadays you just take what the algorithm gives you.
Glad I finally am in a position where I’m not on the apps (knock on wood, etc). I was getting dates but I could always tell it was in spite of their best efforts.
And even the person I’m with now, I feel like the app algorithm thought we’d be like an 80%. On paper it doesn’t seem like it’d be a long term fit- i have a cat, she has a dog. I like a lot of metal, she likes jam bands. Lot of room for the algorithm to predict we’d have a few dates and then it wouldn’t work out.
And as someone else said, most of them are owned by Match group. Even the myths of capitalism require competition for products to be good. Match should be broken up.
Though APD fired Eder on July 17, prosecutors officially refused to move forward with felony stalking charges in the case.
Prosecutors are part of the problem
Generally, the fewer people driving, the better the experience is for those who do drive.
You could perhaps still have enshittification in a worker owned organization. It seems more likely to happen when the decisions are being made by rich ghouls and absent shareholders, rather than the people who actually made the product.
A big problem is often lack of competition.
No one needs that much money. The people who could deserve it don’t get it. We’ve got teachers in poverty and this fucker has more money than he’d ever need. Fuck him. Fuck his enablers.
I’m pretty sure local models still induce pyschosis and hallucinate. Maybe the cat’s out of the bag, but they still suck.
My job told us all to use AI more, as its own metric. I had it walk through how capitalism is unjust. Not exactly a secret but probably the ghouls in management would probably be mad.
There are people at google, people with names and addresses, who have collectively made the world incalculably shittier. I hope they get what they deserve.
Ed Zitron wrote a long post about some asshole in particular who shit it all up: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
We’re not far off from The Smith Act making a comeback. That “we’re going to arrest people who attended a meeting once” stuff is in living memory. The US has never lived up to its stated ideals.
They’re not trying to make a good product. They’re trying to get their short term gains.
Normal capitalist bullshit where a handful of people (who probably don’t even do any work) make decisions and keep almost all the profits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth%2C_and_I_Must_Scream
It’s short and you can find a copy at your library, or on the seas.