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@FuturisticRobert @fuchsiii I think that's the fundamental unfixable problem of publicly traded corporations because they are legally mandated to maximize ROI for shareholders at an exponential rate they'll inevitably hit a ceiling.

Even if that means they run out of humans and businesses that ain't already buying all their stuff and subscribing to everything.
- This is why #Microsoft stopped caring about #consumers as they basically "owned" the #desktoplinux with #WindowsXP and until they killed #Windows7 & #Windows10 any other OS was a *"statistical #RoundingError"...
- All for #Linux to win is to not #enshittify at the same or faster pace than #Windows11...

Per contrast, #Valve (which is owned predominantly by #GabeN and only has marginal amounts of (non-traded!) stocks with it's employees) is also doing great without #enshittifiying #Steam.

Mostly because #Steam can't afford to mistreat it's customers longterm, as being convenient for said users is what sets them apart from any other store...
- The only reason they pivoted to Linux is because #GabeNewell realized the frontal attack #Windows8Bing and #Windows10S are on his company and that it's a horrible gamble to not assume #Windows trying to monopolize #Apps and #Games #distribution wouldn't cull Steam.
- Not that they like #OpenSource, because their #BusinessModel is diametrically opposite by virtue of selling access to #CCSS. It's just that they know that Microsoft could otherwise choke them to death so fast and brutal that they'd end up bankrupt faster than #Gawker when #peterThiel decided to literally "sue them into bankrupcy"...

Which makes Gaben propably the only publicly known #billionaire that isn't hated.

Or maybe it's his and thus Valve's #AntiAI - Stance that #Gamers love...

Gabe Newell on Video Game Piracy (Full Version, HQ) (2009)

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teaneedz Feb 5

if #apple doesn't fix their stupid ios keyboard with gemini, i'm sending a thousand ducks to #enshittify their spaceship

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Rob Landley Feb 2

70 years ago the GOP was "bad cop" and democrats "good cop". Both were working for oligarchs.

Since then the GOP went outright fascist as predicted by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy (I blogged at length about that a dozen years ago ala https://landley.net/notes-2013.html#22-02-2013 and https://landley.net/notes-2013.html#26-10-2013 ) but "restoring the old order" is attempting to de-#enshittify twitter instead of building mastodon.

Capitalism consumes like fire and grows like cancer. It CAN'T stop. Sustainability is its enemy.

Southern strategy - Wikipedia

Kevin Karhan

Dec 17

People who think #ProofOfStake is better than #ProofOfWork haven't had to touch #Ethereum and espechally #Solana which require a shitton of #RAM, NVMe-#SSD|s and superfast, low latency networking!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g&t=1h31m28s.

In fact they make #Monero look like the biggest act of envoirmentalism since the ban of leaded car gasoline and CFCs!

And yes this is no joke: There are BILLION DOLLAR COMPANIES using these #Shitcoins!

Seriously, this is also a problem, or did you guys really thought that the #AIbubble & #AIslop would stop #Shitcoin-Floods done by #TechBros and #FinanceBros ?

These people are professionally "#HornyForMoney" and since #Banksters run out of real #Economy to #enshittify for #profit, they'll make up shit to make number go up!

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

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Anders Gulden Olstad Dec 15

Don’t #enshittify where you eat. #IoT #Samsung #Fridge #ai #CoryDoctorow

Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪Nov 14

A great post by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) "The 40-year #economic mistake that let #Google conquer (and #enshittify) the world"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/#invest-dont-acquire

#enshittification #monopoly

Pluralistic: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world (06 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Wouter Tebbens ⁂Nov 6

@TheDutchChief @BjornW it may be still useful. Until they manage to get you hooked and dependent. Please also check the #enshittify strategy as articulated by Cory Doctorow. Maybe best to explore ways to track your biking while keeping controç over your data and integrations?

Kevin Karhan

Sep 24

THIS is the most blatant unmasking as a #UsefulIdiot I've seen to this day:

Selfish-smug asshole like you that decided they'd rather let a #christofascist win by NOT voting AGAINST him are the reason we got this shitshow in the #USA and how the shitshow in 1930s #Germany came to be!

Seriously, #USpol sickens me, because these folks are gonna #enshittify the lives of > 1bn people outside the #US who never got a say in said elections just because they don't get to "Have their cake, eat it AND get paid for it!"

If stupidity was a power source, these people would be anle to power the entire planet with it!

#YDB

Sunguramy

Sep 11, 2025

I dont have a printer, so I drew my own bit to add to my iNaturalist shirt Ive had for years to wear today to the q&a for a new Ambassador program.

We have been waiting three months for a q&a promised to use about adding GenAI to the site. Still not gotten that promised on, but got this invite to a q&a about becoming an ambassador.

Most users do not want genAI, in fact their blog announcement got so many comments they closed commenting. iNat staff have been obtuse and say they have no plans yet to share about the project so our promised q&a is pointless. But they want a working prototype by the end of the year.

We still do not have guarantee that it will be opt in only, we do not have any transparency for the project as to how it will scrape our data and be traceable, we showed how even using genAI for summarizing the comments about it attributed falsehoods to people who never said what the summary claimed, we showed how it hallucinated ID tips which is what they want to use it to generate…and now, openAI actually admits in their own paper that hallucinations are just a part of genAI, showing this will enshittify the most widely used community science platform.

If you got the invite for the meeting in 40 minutes (noon EST) I ask that you please hop on the meeting and ask these questions and push for them to drop this inane project.

In the end: How can we be an ambassador for GenAI with any good conscious?

@pluralistic still would love to see you do a writeup on this to publicize the issues. I am just a field biologist. I don’t have reach. I don’t have electronic expertise. You do. Most people don’t know this is even happening because it is being shoved under proverbial rugs.

#ai #google #genAI #enshittify #enshittification #iNat #iNaturalist #naturalist #nature