Dominik Schwind

Oh.

But first let me take a selfie

Linked purely for the headline

My ideal state is being inefficient.

I'm not really sure the solution would work for me, but overall this sounds very plausible.

Not The Onion

Same. I still like so much about technology, and yet. Sigh.

Not everything needs to be a job.

Headline.

Good god.

The Star Wars sequels are getting weird

Taste seems to be out of fashion in general.

Well, shit.

Sometimes the C in ACAB stands for Capybara

Ah, yes. Lovely headline.

This is probably about as true as femboy porn being an insult to Poland.

A nice companion piece to the "modernity is stupid" article I bookmarked before.

the Internet’s business model is betrayal. Every mature social media platform has betrayed us. Every big search engine has betrayed us.

Yes. And double yes:

And don’t tell me about enshittification, that is a thought-terminating cliche that does not actually perform useful or interesting analysis and is little more than the new “just use linux” of annoying Fediverse reply guys.

Money ruins everything

I might still be blocking ads, to be honest.

"Grift shift" is a lovely term

The headline is more a question than an answer but his analysis is spot on.

Sounds like a good explanation and roughly how I understand the expression, too.

Bummer.

Oh well.

Fascinating

Hm. On the one hand "open-source mapping project" sounds good. On the other hand: Meta, Microsoft and Amazon

As large platforms emerged — whether they were for search, social, or e-commerce — the deal was that they would make our digital lives easier and, in exchange, we would give them our data, attention, and, increasingly, actual money.