Nowhere GirlToo many men think "civilization" is the power to blow stuff up instead of the power to make a safe, clean, and bright world for everyone.
Hobby printmaker and bookbinder.
Beginner static trapeze aerialist.
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Laura
@lauralorax
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Enjoyer of cats, nature, Terry Pratchett books, public libraries and public transit.
Hobby printmaker and bookbinder.
Beginner static trapeze aerialist.
She/her
Hobby printmaker and bookbinder.
Beginner static trapeze aerialist.
She/her
scott fHere in SF, @SafeStreetRebel installed a mini road diet at the 4th St/Channel intersection in Mission Bay where a driver killed a 2-year-old last month.
They also tallied all the City's proposed changes in response to 138 fatalities in the past 5 years, and it's revealing. 33% of fatal crashes led to NO proposed changes. 71% either proposed no change, repainting existing road markings, or just doing changes already required by state law.
https://www.safestreetrebel.com/blog/community-installs-safety-improvements-at-4th-and-channel-st/
Community installs safety improvements at 4th and Channel St
Just before 9pm on Friday February 27th, a driver struck and killed a 2 year old child crossing the street at 4th and Channel and injured her mother. This was the third time in 2026 a driver killed someone outside of a car in San Francisco and since then, two
Laura
Allan Haverholm"You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Google’s promise that it was an open computing platform and that you could run whatever software you choose on it. Instead, as of September 2026, they will be non-consensually pushing an update to your operating system that irrevocably blocks this right and leaves you at the mercy of their judgement over what software you are permitted to trust."
Keep Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org/
SFistGroup Filmed Paying $5 Per Signature at Sixth and Mission on Pro-Billionaire Petitions
https://sfist.com/2026/03/13/group-filmed-paying-5-per-signature-at-sixth-and-mission-on-pro-billionaire-petitions/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into San Francisco Bay Area News @san-francisco-bay-area-news-SFistNews
Group Filmed Paying $5 Per Signature at Sixth and Mission on Pro-Billionaire Petitions
A local content creator filmed a group of signature collectors on SF’s Sixth Street paying dozens of people $5 a pop to sign petitions for three billionaire-backed campaigns under names of voters outside SF, and the campaigns blame an outside firm.
The EuropeansThis video is gold. The Norwegian Consumer Council entertainingly satirising the crappy tech that is making things increasingly shitty.
The Ensh*ttificator
James Huff 
“Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into #enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide.”
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council ha...
AJ Sadauskas@adavid @spriebsch @preinheimer And we're still in the early phase of @pluralistic's enshittification cycle with AI.
The likes of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are still locking users and businesses into their platforms.
Tokens are being given away for free, even to people who don't want them.
The real rentseeking fun begins once everyone's locked into a platform.
For example, Imagine a world where most businesses run software created using Claude Code completely unchecked.
What's to stop Anthropic from pushing out a future update of Claude Code that routinely generates code that relies on Anthropic's proprietary APIs to work?
What's to stop Microsoft from pushing out a future update of Copilot that only works with customer data stored in Dynamics?
What's to stop Google from pushing out an update to Gemini where all the generated code is exclusively hosted in Google Cloud?
Why, suddenly you're not just paying for an AI tool that costs the equivalent of a developer's salary.
But also, if you ever stop paying the monthly rent, then your access to the proprietary APIs ends and all your software breaks. Or you lose access to your customer records. Or all the code you've ever generated, stored on the affiliated cloud platform, vanishes.
And beyond coding, there's many other ways these platforms could be enshittified for profit.
For example, if millions of people trust LLMs to manage their daily lives, then suddenly making sure AI agents answer a question like "What should I have for lunch today" with "a Big Mac" is worth billions of dollars to McDonald's.
Worst of all, if the cost of building out all the data centres and infrastructure is in the trillions, it limits the market to just a handful of players.
And any online platforms that use their APIs will have to pay an economic rent of their choosing.
I'm sure there's many other ways they're planning to use this to extract profits and build power.
That's why investors are willing to pour trillions into this thing.
It's not because they believe AGI is just around the corner.
It's because they believe that if enough people and businesses get locked in, they get to put a tax on everything.
The likes of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are still locking users and businesses into their platforms.
Tokens are being given away for free, even to people who don't want them.
The real rentseeking fun begins once everyone's locked into a platform.
For example, Imagine a world where most businesses run software created using Claude Code completely unchecked.
What's to stop Anthropic from pushing out a future update of Claude Code that routinely generates code that relies on Anthropic's proprietary APIs to work?
What's to stop Microsoft from pushing out a future update of Copilot that only works with customer data stored in Dynamics?
What's to stop Google from pushing out an update to Gemini where all the generated code is exclusively hosted in Google Cloud?
Why, suddenly you're not just paying for an AI tool that costs the equivalent of a developer's salary.
But also, if you ever stop paying the monthly rent, then your access to the proprietary APIs ends and all your software breaks. Or you lose access to your customer records. Or all the code you've ever generated, stored on the affiliated cloud platform, vanishes.
And beyond coding, there's many other ways these platforms could be enshittified for profit.
For example, if millions of people trust LLMs to manage their daily lives, then suddenly making sure AI agents answer a question like "What should I have for lunch today" with "a Big Mac" is worth billions of dollars to McDonald's.
Worst of all, if the cost of building out all the data centres and infrastructure is in the trillions, it limits the market to just a handful of players.
And any online platforms that use their APIs will have to pay an economic rent of their choosing.
I'm sure there's many other ways they're planning to use this to extract profits and build power.
That's why investors are willing to pour trillions into this thing.
It's not because they believe AGI is just around the corner.
It's because they believe that if enough people and businesses get locked in, they get to put a tax on everything.
Extinction Rebellion GlobalIf you think things are bad now (they are) they can get much worse. The UK govt suppressed a report by MI5, MI6 & GCHQ saying there is a ""realistic possibility" that the decline of forests and glacial rivers would lead to "global competition for food" beginning in the 2030s."
