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amazing post. whipped my head around to re-read it double-closely.

Yup and the "regulators" are too busy ensuring that minorities go to private prisons. Priorities.

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Everything is a subscription now, and ads are everywhere. Who will buy these products when many of us are simply trying to survive? We are all renters in this great enshittification.

"Do be evil" is another one.

Born and raised for the job, someone always does

"And not care"

Countdown until Soylent Green

The motto is “we are pro exploitation - join us”

They let you when you're a tech bro.

Exactly

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The motto of our politicians is go right ahead but I get a cut.

Lol same thing elons kid told Carlson. they just quietly do what they want. That’s why we get such colorful sunrise/sunsets bc they explode stuff daily and that particulate glinting in the sun is beautiful But it is death. Toxins pollutant’s poisons. No regulation/oversight or conscience.

Tech industry in a nutshell

When you’re a Tech Bro they let you do it.

That has been the motto of any and every ruling elite class, ever.

Thought that was the republicans

Next week I'll have been a citizen for six months lol bsky.app/profile/drya...

Right on

And, oddly enough, Techbros are made of meat. Just like the rest of us.

"Solipsistic and dazzled by its own swirling universe of technical possibilities, IBM was self-gripped by a special amoral corporate mantra: if it can be done, it should be done. To the blind technocrat, the means were more important than the ends." -Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust

They're insulated from consequences...

Someone PLEASE tell me how we can all boycott #Microsoft to get AI the fuck out of our Word, Excel, Outlook, Bing,etc. and still get pour jobs done. We fucking didn't ask for it, why is it all over the top of our screens and in the way? And fuck you too, #Adobe.

It’s all a game to see what they can get computers to make people do. The money thing is just so investors keep giving them resources to do it and power so no one can stop them.

And the suckers will keep on paying.

Just, it transpires, like Trump.

That's the motto of every capitalist industry, and until we rid ourselves of this blight we'll continue to face the same issue.

That's been the despot's M.O. for his entire adult life. He set that political trend in 2016 and enhanced it on 1/20/25, thanks to the legal Teflon cloak in which his SCOTUS Cartel of Six wrapped him. He believes immunity means invincibility and he provides that invincibility to his tech oligarchs.

Thank YöU soooo much for this post ✌🏼✌🏻✌🏽✌🏾✌🏿❤️🌎

When you’re a modern tech they let you do it. You can just start kissing and fingering and they let you do it.

Can't stand techbros. They think they're superior to everyone else.

And their families approve because more cash in their pockets and stuff in their closets and seats at tables and parties to attend. “Fuck your friends and neighbours”is the new family motto on planet Earth, in both the figurative and literal senses.

They stole the motto from our (U.S) government.

IN a world of bioengineering, nanotech, neuroscience, A.I., global webbing, panics, hacking, Human mastery of life, mater, wills Begs "Goethe 'nuff" ethical skills Sorcerers, Frankensteins show That things boomerang--D'OH!!! . . . To the Victors, we learn, go the spills.

Yes. And Zuck was one of the main ones driving it to the bottom just as he's now a force behind the age id bs.

Also the motto of the Drumpf regime

The motto of industry since forever isn't it?

Stealing water, stealing land, building these godawful environmentally catastrophic data centers for tech no one wants or needs, giving up all our data to the surveillance state, destroying art, culture and whole swaths of careers, and jacking up energy costs for everyone.🤬🤬🤬

You mean rape people. Their data, their thoughts, their children. All of it.

That's been the motto of all industry always

They saw the Matrix as a documentary.

What modern tech industry? We have been using the same square box in our pocket for 20 years now. On wait I can now get the annoying test messages in my glasses and on my watch now.

We're no longer people to them, just commodities.

And we can do things to it! Close the Amazon account, ditch streaming and if feasible pick up a pen & write. Books are fascinating & libraries/bookshops are great places. I don't need to switch on my radio, cooker, fridge, lights etc remotely ffs, I can flip a switch. I can walk, phone, write. Go!

Excuse me, but "A/B testing" is the #PreferredNomenclature, TYVM. 🤣

Whereas our motto should be you can just do things with people

We are all sentient receptacles of data points without any agency or rights and we exist to support our future techbro overlords and their masters.

Counter misinformation, create boycotts of products, and speak up.

Running social experiments on society for profit is how I'd describe it. Our children bear the brunt of most of it.

I hate that tech companies are run by psychopaths, even oil CEOs are not this bad.

"But the tech is so goooood...."

Oh come now, it's actually "kill all the people and populate the world with your incestuous spawn."

They can and do. Our food is becoming less natural as an example. Don’t worry, there are more chemicals that can treat any reactions and others to help you not care.

That's the lesson of Epstein.

Also finding out "Do unto others as you would have done to you" only goes so far when the people involved willingly put themselves through heinous things in the name of productivity.

It’s not that modern, it’s the whole reason people should never have let “lower taxes,” put Republicans in office, because the only thing they hate more than taxes are the regulations that kept industry of all sorts from doing exactly that for the past 100years prior to Ronald Reagan.

For some people in some circumstances it is, but I wasn't referring to social media, or social media alone.

Yes. And you said "we". But what I am trying to say is you may need a big "we". The question is, is it a problem of persuading more people to join the "we", or of convincing the people we already have to start acting

this came about with steve jobs mentality: consumers don't know what they want; we will tell them never have been an apple consumer

It's the only product/industry that is allowed to sell faulty products & require the customer to solve their faulty bugs for them, while trying to use the product.

It’s the capitalist motto for every business, tech just gets away with intruding on every aspect of life.

Since then they have been busy buying their legislators who no longer represent the constituents who vote for them. We won’t see true anti-trust again. Not until Citizens United is overturned and that won’t happen anytime soon.

I don’t remember the exact details but either way, Microsoft won 🤬. And there has never been another major case since then.

I shoulda presumed there's no way on Earth you'd wanna talk about the forest, and not a given tree you hate. Whatever. This world belongs to neither of us anyway.......

Crack downs on mergers have lead to the "acqu-hire" where companies hire the employees they think have the skills they want and leave the rest of company and staff alone. Employees who had stock in the company don't get the benefit of the big payday. But they get their freedom. Yay ...?!

The corporations run the government so this would not ever happen. Well, except they might start making laws about how regular people can’t criticize a company.

Censor and track which people??? I lost the plot line here....

Nice!

“fuck it, we need money, who cares if anyone actually wants it. you’re gonna use it and you’re going to tell me i’m innovative”

We are their cows with endless udders, apparently.

Noxious Dumbass Telling the Future. August 5th 2024

@davidpierce.xyz an addition to “you can just say things”

and should be, "you can do just things for people."

#JusticeforAlex

"...and then monetize it".

What was the last thing tech gave us that we wanted? Maybe the I-pod? Sure wasn't these fucking phones.

It’s important that you either deny that you’ve done them or point out how much better you are now at them so it doesn’t matter how bad you were then.

people are products to them, not living beings, just a resource, they only have a vague, abstract concept of our existence

And people respond like docile lambs!

"Go fast and don't give a fuck"

Explains the overlap with speculative historical fiction smut. Pope Urban II x Abraham Lincoln is my personal crackship.

seems like it

Sure seems that way.