Dominik Schwind

My ideal state is being inefficient.

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

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

Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles

Now that is a headline

Not everything needs to be a job.

Taste seems to be out of fashion in general.

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.

Amazing follow-up to the viral AI rant from a few days back

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.

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.