Ok, #enshittify as much as you want your #UI, #AppleMusic on #Tahoe, but could you still _please_ recognize the connected sound device without requiring zillion on/off clicks on sound icon sub-settings, and sometimes app restarts?

You. Have. One. Job.

#macos #music #woes

Well derrrrrrrrrrrr.......

#software #thewebsucks #modernsoftware #fuckyou #enshit #enshittify #enshittification

"I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones."

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

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

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