Dominik Schwind

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.