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As @pluralistic would say: ‘twiddling’.
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YouTube Music lyrics now require a Premium subscription https://9to5google.com/2026/02/07/youtube-music-lyrics-premium/Arun Shah™ (Mastodon)
Como siempre, Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) lo dice clarísimo: o cambiamos la política o sigue la #enmierdización (#enshittification).
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Por suerte, hay múltiples opciones a esta historia única del #capitalismo #fascista (recomiendo leer "El relato", de Úrsula K. LeGuin).
Algunes decidimos vivir otros mundos aquí y ahora, y nos maravillamos de lo hermosos que son. #Colaboración, #CuidadoMutuo, cosas compartidas, #cooperación y co #gobernanza de pares. En fin, la diaria de #LesComunes.
Aunque implique trabajo, lo hacemos gustoses. Al final, que yo sepa, sólo tenemos una vida. ¿Como queremos vivirla?
¿Como podemos ayudar a otres a probar y cambiar de relato y de vida? Ciertamente el ejemplo es algo importante. Hacer que funcione económicamente también. ¿Que más se les ocurre? :)
Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome
Who are we to blame for enshittification? That is, who is at fault for the pandemic of platform decay, in which the platforms we depend on, where we congregate, trade, perform, sell, buy, connect, …Locus Online
Very much looking forward to reading it, @pluralistic !
#Internet #enshittification #MastoBooks
il y a plus de 10 ans de ça, Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic (déjà lui !) ne disait pas autre chose, à propos de la censure du web, dans une nouvelle pour le MIT tech review.
C'est la même chose (en pire) avec la reconnaissance faciale par ia :
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#Tech
#TechnoSolutionnism
#Enshittification
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
Via > @Khrys 🔗 mamot.fr/users/Khrys/statuses/…
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
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![“Network filters are universally loathed. Duh. no one’s ever written a regular expression that can distinguish art from porn, and no one ever will. [..]
The web's got about 100 billion page on it; if you have a fail-rate of one-tenth of 1 percent, you'll overblock (or underblock, or both) 100,000,000 pages. That's several ‘Library of Congress’ worth of pointless censorship, or all the porn ever made, time 10, missed though underfilterring.
You'd be an idiot to even try.”
— Cory Doctorow : “Petard: A tale of just deserts” in MIT Technology review SF annual 2014 : Twelve tomorrows](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5426477 "“Network filters are universally loathed. Duh. no one’s ever written a regular expression that can distinguish art from porn, and no one ever will. [..]
The web's got about 100 billion page on it; if you have a fail-rate of one-tenth of 1 percent, you'll overblock (or underblock, or both) 100,000,000 pages. That's several ‘Library of Congress’ worth of pointless censorship, or all the porn ever made, time 10, missed though underfilterring.
You'd be an idiot to even try.”
— Cory Doctorow : “Petard: A tale of just deserts” in MIT Technology review SF annual 2014 : Twelve tomorrows")
Khrys (@Khrys@mamot.fr)
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/ The face-recognition app Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents i…Khrys (Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net)
> When I think about the debate over radium, I imagine that the people who understood that radium was really bad for you must have run up against critics who told them they were being unreasonable. "You can't tell people to stop using radium. Tell them to use suppositories with less radium. Tell them to use them less frequently. But you can't just tell people, 'stop putting radium up your asshole.' They won't take you seriously.
@pluralistic pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/jus…
#enshittification #technology
#ReverseCentaur #enshittification #enshittocene #TormentNexus
> Sorry, eh
pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not… by @pluralistic
FTA: "As Canada contemplates our response to the collapse of the American empire and its alliances with the world, the cornerstone of our current strategy is sacrificing our dollars, water and energy in order to become more dependent on America, in a weird and improbable bet that we will figure out how to make millions of Canadians unemployed. I'm sorry, that just doesn't sound like a great idea to me."
Excellent article by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) about the state of "AI", how we got here, and how to be an effective "AI" critic.
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
#NoAi #enshittification #resist
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its rootsCory Doctorow (The Guardian)
"An 8K video is 10 times heavier and more polluting than an HD video. On your smartphone, you literally can't even see the difference. It's pointless waste."
From '99th Day: A Warning About Technology' by Gerry McGovern
Enshittification in action in the Netherlands. This is Hyundai Bluelink (navigation app). The driver apparently even paid for it...
![Screenshot of a page from the book Enshittification, by Cory Doctorow. Two sections are highlighted:
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Reach into your pocket and take out your little black distraction rectangle. Open up the camera app. Point it at this page. Press the shutter button. Congratulations, you've just committed copyright infringement. See you in court.
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(You can delete the photo now. Or better yet, post it to your group chat or social media account with a note telling people how much you're enjoying this book! Here, I'll provide you with some explanatory text: Greetings, followers of my reader! This is Cory Doctorow writing to you, and your friend has very nearly finished reading my excellent 2025 book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, available at finer bookstores everywhere, as well as on monopoly electronic retail sites that should be condemned to the scrap heap of history.)](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5414404 "Screenshot of a page from the book Enshittification, by Cory Doctorow. Two sections are highlighted:
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Reach into your pocket and take out your little black distraction rectangle. Open up the camera app. Point it at this page. Press the shutter button. Congratulations, you've just committed copyright infringement. See you in court.
[...]
(You can delete the photo now. Or better yet, post it to your group chat or social media account with a note telling people how much you're enjoying this book! Here, I'll provide you with some explanatory text: Greetings, followers of my reader! This is Cory Doctorow writing to you, and your friend has very nearly finished reading my excellent 2025 book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, available at finer bookstores everywhere, as well as on monopoly electronic retail sites that should be condemned to the scrap heap of history.)")
I remember reading and commenting on the essay where you first used the term #enshittification, on @medium back in November 2022. I doubt you or anyone else realized then how much it would catch on 🙂
doctorow.medium.com/social-qui…
Also, happy to see another @thunderbird user. Sadly, Mozilla is becoming enshittified as well.
This film is for anyone trying to understand why the world's going to shit and what they can do about it.
From Uber rides to endless battles with customer service bots, Cory’s journey becomes a frustrating, absurd mirror of the very platforms he’s trying to expose.
We’ll be there as Cory dives in headfirst to confront the Enshittocene. It’s not for the faint of heart, but it’ll be entertaining!
Stay tuned and join us as we wade out of the enshittosphere #Enshittification @pluralistic
I am fascinated by this new strategy where multiple AI company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti AI sentiment has hurt their businesses 😭
#noai #enshittification #technology #ai #slop #capitalism #electronics #sustainability #nature
I’m not a Wikipedia editor/contributor (I’m not knowledgeable enough for the most part), but if I were one, and I didn’t want my work to be sold to train AI so Wikimedia Foundation can make even more money off of it (they actually started selling it to Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Perplexity LAST YEAR without telling us! Surprise!), this may be a good time for me to WITHHOLD FURTHER LABOR and stop contributing to Wikipedia until they reverse this decision.
techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/wiki…
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and others | TechCrunch
The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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I noticed that more Gmail spam is getting through, but most are still being flagged. I think their spam classification is only partially driven by Gemini #AI
If they were concerned about spam, they would allow granular application of Smart Features, but we're the product.
It appears that turning off the new “Smart Features” in #GMail that “provide smart features and personalize your experience” also turns off a decades-old feature that categorizes spam away from your Inbox.
Smart Features uses Gemini #AI to enable LLM-assisted email composition and summary, and to suggest stuff from your calendars and promotional items.
In other words, disabling GMail’s AI features requires you to give up a categorization feature that you’ve had for decades, long before “AI” as we know it today was even a thing.
