Found on Bluesky, and thought I'd share here.

The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food you can make so you don't die

From a co-author;

"I co-wrote a cookbook for depressed people and other folks with zero spoons, only knives. It's not meant to be gourmet cooking so much as a survival guide for late stage capitalism. And you can get it for free!"

Edit (2): It turns out both coauthors, @youseeatortoise and @zillanovikov, are here on Mastodon!

#Cookbooks

https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

#startup #business #tech #technology @technology

Varias veces he husmeado en #pixelfed para ver si me abro cuenta y me voy definitivamente de Instagram, donde el algoritmo ya me impide tener más de 5 likes en las fotos y la saturación de publicidad y recomendaciones hace de la experiencia de usuario algo insufrible. Qué asco de red. Pero no encuentro instancias en español. ¿Alguien sabe de instancias de España en Pixelfed para poder estar en una comunidad más afín?

Agradezco sugerencias.

«El problema del exceso de empatía es que, mientras nosotros podemos entender las luchas ajenas, los demás son incapaces de entender las nuestras. Y entonces uno es la hoguera donde nadie más coloca leña pero se acercan a calentar las manos».

Ann Everestt

#popazo #art #mastoart #quotes #citas #lectura #libros #books #literatura #novela #novel #narrative #escribir #literaverso