I thought had this bud nipped, but enshittification is everywhere and ruins everything in time. I had a mere six months with my RSS feeds free from the scourge of Shorts, so imagine my surprise and anger when they started showing up again. This time, however, I'm not sure there's a way out.
Tag: eidnind
Trucks have gotten way too big
As someone who wants a Miata when it's finally time to get rid of my current car, images like this make me shake my head in annoyance and fear. This isn't my car or even the right brand or model, but it's about the right size, and it's dwarfed by most pickups on the road these days. And Miatas are even smaller!
Rename the Department of Justice
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, our so-called Department of Justice has removed access to a study they did that showed the opposite of the narrative currently trying to be spun by the White House, the FBI, Twitter (which is mostly Russian and Chinese bots these days), and Fox. They desperately want folks to believe it's the Democrats and other leftists sowing the seeds of violence when instead the data shows clearly that the call is coming from inside the house: that it's mostly those who vote Republican who are responsible.
AI is designed to ruin lives
Is this a sufficiently clickbait title, you think? Still, I do kinda firmly believe this is the case ⸺ that AI's overarching goals are rooted in the desire to replace paid, job-holding humans with much cheaper automation. There's no way to tell how many fewer jobs will be available in five years, but I reckon the damage will be great and the numbers very high.
I was an early Facebook adopter
I mentioned in a previous post that I was a late adopter of pretty much everything: social media, iPhones, iPods, streaming, etc. That's not entirely true, however, as I was actually quite an early Facebook user ⸺ and abandoner.
Are we great again yet?
When you're under a turd avalanche there's hardly time to look at any particular turd, figure out what it means, and deal with it. This is the political strategy of "flooding the zone" that Republicans use to great effect whenever they gain sufficient power. This week's deluge of turds has been extra stupid, and now I must rant impotently for a moment.
When redoing a song goes wrong
As a terminally uncreative person, one who's basically never the Idea Guy but more the Idea Implementer Guy, I probably shouldn't be commenting on stuff like this, but here goes nothin'...
There are scary drivers among us
A few posts back I mentioned that a benefit of having a dashcam is you can post your interesting clips for internet points. There are plenty of YouTube channels dedicated to compiling such footage, and I feel I'm a better and more defensive driver having watched very many of them over the years.
Getting around stupid paywalls
Paywalls have gotten quite prevalent over the years for a number of reasons I won't get into. I used to work for a company whose main income was selling ads on their posts about news, events, and the like, so I get the appeal of wanting people to pay for content.
Police departments will buy anything except more training
Following Fairfax's lead, the Richmond's police department has bought into the snake oil known as BolaWrap.
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