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I keep waiting for Amazon to start generating AI-driven online profiles spouting Ai-driven selling points for AI-generated media.
It’s the AI version of “Flood the zone with shit” except the entire internet is The Zone.

this is the “can it run DOOM” of manufacturing

rather than uninstalling adblockers entirely, can’t they just whitelist YouTube? Ad Trackers only have value when they track people across multiple sites: if the tracker only functions on YT then users get the video views they want and YT gets near-worthless tracking data.

Bingo! If accountability hurts the bottom line, then The Big Money will argue against accountability in any form.

Big Money got a mighty voice.
Big Money make no sound.

I’d love to go a goddamn day without hearing about this man. The media’s bizarre fascination with him is entirely unhealthy.

I just want to mention the clever graphic design of the Illustration by Ben Kothe

The article is great. The top comment under the article caught my eye:
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but at least I’m real…last I checked.
That’s very suspicious since that is exactly what I would expect a bot to write.

Point of order: in order for a bot to write that text, it would need to have been already written by someone else. So if a bot didn’t write it before, it might the next time.

Cory’s been “kind of a big deal” for decades. Boing Boing was as relevant as you could get back in the early 2000’s. It had consistently good and interesting stuff on it.
I’m glad the enshittification article became widely read: it’s remarkably astute.

Microsoft cares about dual-booters about as much as Meta/Facebook care about people running anything other than FB on their phone.

They’re like a vampire: once you invite them in you are rendered powerless to them. Source: “The Lost Boys”

This is what I’m having trouble with: how are word salad books at the top of their “bestsellers” list - is anyone buying them? If someone is buying them, then are others buying them just because they appear on the bestseller list?
It doesn’t pass the sniff test.

I like that name, I gotta say.

| We’re pretty passive when it comes to being gouged

Only if you include cell phone plans, internet access, air travel, housing, and food. Oh, and pet food.

I maintain the only reason Google ever shut any product down was because they weren’t able to extract useful data from it fast enough. It’s the only reason any of their products exist.

and where proponents of the untrustable attack those with even a shred of integrity remaining

how about a day’s profits? okay, a half-day’s profits, final offer.

Yes and they also want to dominate the “absolutely everything else” market ; if not now, eventually. If they could just own all the world’s data and all the worlds operating systems and all the world’s gaming platforms and all the world’s everything-else, that would be just ducky, I’m sure.