Ai Companies seem fine with obsoleting jobs, but we will see what happens when Ai starts replacing CEO positions.

#AiSlop #MicroSlop #PredatoryCapitalism

Just a reminder amidst all this noise and chaos…Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. Report linked below. #SocialMedia #DigitalAddiction #Meta #Google #Snap #TikTok #Capitalism #exploitation #PredatoryCapitalism #PredatoryPractices #TechBros

https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials. The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. #SocialMedia #RegulateSocialMedia #Capitalism #PredatoryCapitalism

https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/

"It's companies vs people"

Exactly! I wish, more people would realize that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1QvVnjiegE

https://piped.video/watch?v=M1QvVnjiegE

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=M1QvVnjiegE

#capitalism #HumansBeforeProfit #corporateGreed #predatoryCapitalism #chokepointCapitalism #Oligarchy #Corporatocracy #SocialInequality #CostOfLiving #CostOfLivingCrisis #QualityOfLife #EvanEdinger

Reacted like someone with zero critical faculty, #GitHub 👏🏻

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #noAI #genAI #generativeAI #promptEngineering #vibeCoding #LLM #ChatBots #aiChatBot #enshittification #ensh11n #gaslighting #DeceptivePatterns #darkPatterns #automaticOptIn #trainingLLMsIsTheft #HumansBeforeProfit #corporateGreed #predatoryCapitalism #chokepointCapitalism #intellectualProperty

I used my CareCredit credit card to pay for a $530 surgery for my cat because they advertise a 0% promotional interest rate for at least six months, depending on the total charge.

$530 should have been 0% for a year. I misunderstood and I thought it was applicable to all veterinary charges and medical providers if they participate in care credit, but the provider has to specifically opt in for this promotion and the place that did my cat’s procedure did not.

I was shocked and alarmed when I got my statement yesterday and saw that interest would accrue 32.99%. I understand it was my mistake, but I thought it might be their error so I chatted with them about it. After being told what I wrote above, I simply asked them if there was anything they could do about it because this is a ridiculously predatory interest rate.

That’s all it took for them to honor the 0% for 12 months I thought I would get.

Don’t let these scumbag banks charge you predatory interest rates without a fight. Yes it was my error, but asking and reminding them that they are being predatory saved me a boatload of money. It was worth the five minutes of texting chat. They’ll even backdate it to get rid of the $13 in interest I got charged before I got my first statement.

#predatorycapitalism #CareCredit

As #Invidious and piped.video are not to be used by third parties (for good and understandable reasons) and for those who can't or don't want to self-host, is there still a #privacy-preserving non-#CORS #YouTube proxy REST API out there somewhere?

#FollowerPower #privacyMatters #MyPrivacyisNoneOfYourBusiness #SurveillanceCapitalism #dataCapitalism #platformCapitalism #digitalFeudalism #GDPR #predatoryCapitalism #privacyPreserving #privacyFriendly #privacyRespecting #digitalSelfDefense

Centralized power generation being distributed over a large area is no longer smart, was never sustainable, and is now a big problem for expanding communities.

But profiteers don't' make money off local energy distributed locally via mesh networks of rooftop and small solar, residential wind, and other sustainable sources.

Their greed is limiting our options.

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-07-27/transformer-bottleneck-can-the-u-s-maintain-and-expand-its-electric-grid/

#Electricity #Sustainability #Power #PolyCrisis #DeferredMaintenance #PredatoryCapitalism #Capitalism