and the punslinger followedI thought enshittification was something that happened to companies and products, but I am hearing now that enshittification has happened to Cory Doctorow.
Jon Gilbert@aysamanra ... what?
@jgilbert I am being snarky about the recent Doctorow piece where he characterizes refusal to use LLMs as "neoliberal purity culture" and insists that if you do not use LLMs you are "fucked", which really made me lose a lot of respect for him. (In fairness, he's talking about local LLM models and not the big startup-backed services, but I still think it's a disingenuous and gross argument.)
@jgilbert For more depth, here is a much deeper and fairer response than my kneejerk negativity: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/
Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]