tramm, to random
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I hope you haven't failed to notice that coming week @pluralistic is giving two public talks in , the first one on overcoming the and the second one guiding us to of computation. And you can ask questions! https://infoaed.ee/cory/

18+ energiepirat, to random German
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Liebe Pleistozänbewohner. Dann schließe ich ich den anderen an, die sich zum Schlafen begeben. Morgen ein neuer Tag und der gleiche Quatsch wie sonst auch.

HistoPol,
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rberger, to random
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@pluralistic coined yet another great new word describing the dystopian era we are living in:

The Enshittocene

Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain

"A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google – which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic – suddenly turned into a pile of shit.”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

hobs, to sandiego
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hugovk, to random
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rberger, to random
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We're living in the enshittocene, in which the forces of enshittification are turning everything from our cars to our streaming services to our dishwashers into thoroughly enshittifified piles of shit. Call it the Great Enshittening…

pluralistic, to tech
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We're living in the #enshittocene, in which the forces of enshittification are turning everything from our cars to our streaming services to our dishwashers into thoroughly enshittifified piles of shit. Call it the Great Enshittening:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/#tech-unions

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GottaLaff, to Taiwan
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party pulled off a historic third consecutive presidential victory on Saturday as voters shrugged off warnings by that their re-election would increase the risk of conflict.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/13/asia/taiwan-presidential-election-results-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app

Travler,
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@GottaLaff Taiwan is China's quandary. On the one hand they are shitting bricks because of it's economic success and political respect world-wide. But on the other if they invade & place it under communist control it will be a major league enshittification.

For example, Hong Kong, once a thriving international self-governing port city is now a enshittified liability.

Communist rule is not favorable to humanity. North Korea is the world's leading example of .

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