#enshitification
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#privatization is the #enshitification mechanism of #capitalism
Britainβs energy grid operator National Grid has paid out almost Β£28bn in dividends to shareholders since privatisation, while the pace of investment in the transmission network has stagnated, finds new research from Commonwealth think tank
βThe US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts,β
βThe traditional practice of libraries is to buy or acquire published materials, preserve and catalog them, and lend them widely and confidentially. (β¦) But now, in the digital age, every one of these functions has been denied to libraries, or recently even declared illegal in the United States.β
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/us-library-system-attack-digital-licensing
Trying to find something to watch on #YouTube and I lost more IQ points than walking past the televisions at work with sportsball on the screen. I've never seen so many #enshitification "content creators"
"It's just raw capitalism and enshitification [1] which is why I'm going to be the annoying, stubborn guy and stop using proprietary platforms, especially ones where I'm inadvertently contributing to building some company's dataset or usage state that is just waiting to be later milked once the platform decides their users are too entrenched.
I was on digg. I was on reddit. I was on Twitter. I was on Facebook. Every platform has its day, and I like investing in things for the long term. It's a much harder battle, but even my code is now used by MS/GitHub to train ML. It's so hostile and folks are so used to it that I feel like I have to tip-toe around saying "No, this isn't okay for me.""
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296161
#USA #capitalism #enshitification
the enshittification of streaming video continues with Amazon's decision to charge people who already pay $140 a year for Amazon Prime an additional $3 to avoid video ads.
How very innovative:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/22/23885242/amazon-prime-tv-movies-streaming-ads-subscription-date
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Prepare for the #enshitification of ARM devices
Arm IPO to kick off today with company valued at $54.5 billion
The customers might be human, but the audience is Google - The Verge
#enshitification #capitalism #DarkForest
https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai
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