We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.
I wrote about it: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/
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It's a close relative of the enshittification idea that @pluralistic has been writing about it for a while now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Breaking through ---- as with all social change requires collective agitation for system change not just individual choice.
In this Who Cares era, I just want to take a minute to tell that I care about what you wrote.
@dansinker excellent article, thank you!
Coincidentally, this appeared on my feed just after your piece:
https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/114569560181742678
(a database of cases in which lawyers have been caught citing fake AI-generated court decisions)
When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law two years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all quickly learn not to This new database has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, and 20 of them were from just this month! https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/ai-hallucination-cases/
"...content that's designed to be consumed while doing something else..."
There aren't many things that make me crazier than people doing something deliberate, like cleaning the house or walking a dog, and LISTENING to an audio book.
FFS, be where you are when you're there!
@dansinker
So I'm partway in, love it, but had to pause to say that your choice for site font is fantastic before I continue.
I maintain that continuing to care is the best way to get through this nonsense intact.
Really appreciate this call for humanity...for more of the beautifully rough, messy, and ever-so-human imperfection that breaths life into all of us who encounter it.
We need now more than ever to bring back giving a fuck. And giving it openly, messily, and humanly.
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