The New York Times advice column, where snitching liberal busybodies come to seek absolution, is more than a mere annoyance. In limiting our ethical considerations to tricky personal situations and dilemmas, it directs our thinking away from the larger structural injustices of our time.
Isn’t that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
Any organization that’s forced to pursue endless growth is going to end up enshittifying eventually, because there’s only so much innovation and wow factor that you can do to make a product appealing before you hit a talent/demographic/creativity limit. Not to mention that infrastructure and operating costs are massive when you hit that level of scaling and that needs to be funded somehow. Eventually they’ll be forced to start extracting more value out of their existing userbase to keep the revenue growth going. Going IPO is mostly just a telegraph for how things are going behind the scenes.
I too have noticed a number of minor behavioral differences that I’ve found annoying, but it is what it is. This was the closest I could find to an active fork of Cantata, but nothing has been released at this time, though the dev has expressed interest in a Qt6 port.
Can the United States apply consistent standards to pro-Palestine protesters as it does to protecting speech in favor of our country’s violence? No, it doesn’t seem like we can.
The solution, instead, is to look for what is holding the procrastinator back. If anxiety is the major barrier, the procrastinator actually needs to walk away from the computer/book/word document and engage in a relaxing activity. Being branded “lazy” by other people is likely to lead to the exact opposite behavior.
Often, though, the barrier is that procrastinators have executive functioning challenges — they struggle to divide a large responsibility into a series of discrete, specific, and ordered tasks. Here’s an example of executive functioning in action: I completed my dissertation (from proposal to data collection to final defense) in a little over a year. I was able to write my dissertation pretty easily and quickly because I knew that I had to a) compile research on the topic, b) outline the paper, c) schedule regular writing periods, and d) chip away at the paper, section by section, day by day, according to a schedule I had pre-determined.
Yeah, this matches my experience from when I used to tutor people. They tended to be below grade level and would fall victim to a fear of failure, since their self-esteem has taken hits from struggling with the work, in their mind the failure would be confirmation that they’re stupid and would make them not want to try. Getting them to change their mentality resulted in more productive sessions going forward and accomplishing that required addressing the root causes of their anxiety and/or skill deficits.
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture.
Something that has become very apparent to me over the past year of migrating away from the big 6 sites into the dark forest is that, no honestly, the internet isn’t that; the big 6 sites are that. Places like Neocities still exist and have lots of traffic and you can go there and have an interesting time. I’ve encountered more cultural diversity on the Fediverse than I had in the past decade of using Reddit. There’s still cool stuff and interesting communities; it’s just hard to find because search engines are increasingly useless. We need better discoverability; if we fix that, then we’re golden.
I found a beautiful alternative to MusicBee (audio manager & player)! (lemmy.sdf.org)
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Restaurant Workers Deserve a Livable Wage, Too (otherwords.org)
Columbia Law School Faculty Condemn Administration for Mass Arrests and Suspensions (theintercept.com)
Since October, Sen. John Fetterman Has Been Building a Roster of Republican Donors (theintercept.com)
U.S. Senate and Biden Administration Shamefully Renew and Expand FISA Section 702, Ushering in a Two Year Expansion of Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance (www.eff.org)
Right-Wing Critiques Miscast NPR, NYT as Lefty Bastions (fair.org)
Why They’re Calling Student Protesters Antisemites (jacobin.com)
Insurers Are Deserting Homeowners After Natural Disasters (jacobin.com)
Sweden’s Welfare State Was a Product of Class Struggle (jacobin.com)
The Bourgeois Morality of ‘The Ethicist’ (www.currentaffairs.org)
The New York Times advice column, where snitching liberal busybodies come to seek absolution, is more than a mere annoyance. In limiting our ethical considerations to tricky personal situations and dilemmas, it directs our thinking away from the larger structural injustices of our time.
Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded?
Isn’t that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
Music Players (feddit.cl)
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 4 (climateandcapitalism.com)
Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Vote Union (labornotes.org)
The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All (fair.org)
The Philosophical Case for a Four-Day Workweek (jacobin.com)
The FBI Agent and Informant Behind Fred Hampton’s Murder (jacobin.com)
Palestine Protests are a Test of Whether This is a Free Country (www.currentaffairs.org)
Can the United States apply consistent standards to pro-Palestine protesters as it does to protecting speech in favor of our country’s violence? No, it doesn’t seem like we can.
Laziness Does Not Exist (drdevonprice.substack.com)
Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?
Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!
We Need To Rewild The Internet (www.noemamag.com)
Mass Layoffs Have Our Rich Thriving — and Workers Writhing (znetwork.org)
Haiti’s Disintegration and US Foreign Policy (znetwork.org)
Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood (theintercept.com)