Sounds like a good explanation and roughly how I understand the expression, too.
August 31, 2023
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July 2025
Same. I still like so much about technology, and yet. Sigh.
June 2025
Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles
Now that is a headline
Not everything needs to be a job.
March 2025
Taste seems to be out of fashion in general.
December 2024
A nice companion piece to the "modernity is stupid" article I bookmarked before.
the Internetâs business model is betrayal. Every mature social media platform has betrayed us. Every big search engine has betrayed us.
Yes. And double yes:
And donât 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 âjust use linuxâ of annoying Fediverse reply guys.
July 2024
Amazing follow-up to the viral AI rant from a few days back
February 2024
Money ruins everything
November 2023
I might still be blocking ads, to be honest.
September 2023
"Grift shift" is a lovely term
The headline is more a question than an answer but his analysis is spot on.
June 2023
As large platforms emerged â whether they were for search, social, or e-commerce â 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.