Simon Brooke@Cyclist ok, but why do we elect them? Oh, wait, it's because those richest people buy the two biggest political parties, both of which consequently have wealth-friendly policies, and then persuade us that we have to vote for one in order to keep the other out.
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Cory DoctorowMicrosoft has nothing to lose. It's spent billions on #Bing, a search-engine no one voluntarily uses. Might as well try something so stupid it might just work. But why is Google, a monopolist who has a 90+% share of search worldwide, jumping off the same bridge as Microsoft?
There's a delightful #Mastodon thread about this, written by @danhon, where he compares the chatbot-#enshittified front ends to Bing and Google to #Tweedledee and #Tweedledum:
https://mamot.fr/@[email protected].com/109832788458972865
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Dan Hon (@[email protected])
At the front of the house, Alice found two curious characters, both search engines. "I am Googl-E," said the one plastered in advertisements. "And I am Bingle-Dum," said the other, who was the smaller of the two, and sported a pout, as to having fewer visitors and opportunity for conversation than the other.
Strypey"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
#TweedleDee, 'Through the Looking Glass', by Lewis Carroll.