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This is Black Mirror material right here. Quote in comments.

— Jul 04, 2026 07:07AM

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

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— Jul 12, 2026 01:31PM

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For example, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has a shameful record of rubber-stamping ridiculous, overbroad, incredibly obvious patent applications [...] The USPTO's attitude to junk patents has historically been "Grant 'em all and let the courts sort 'em out."

Case in point: does anyone remember cockygate? 😂

— Jul 09, 2026 01:09AM

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"Varoufakis's technofeudalism thesis holds that, in the years after the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, tech was transformed from a primarily profit-seeking enterprise to a primarily rent-seeking enterprise. The thing that makes tech giants powerful is that they control "factors of production" that they rent to actual, productive businesses."

So, welcome to feudalism v2, I guess?

— Jul 09, 2026 12:39AM

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So basically, Google had the potential to be really great, and it was great for a while, but the lack of regulation allwed it to become the most evil version of itself.

— Jul 08, 2026 09:05AM

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"In 2022, Photoshop users were informed that they would henceforth need to pay a subscription fee for certain colors in their images, and if they didn't pay the fee, those colors would be replaced with plain black in every existing file they appeared in."

I haven't heard of this one before, but does it surprise me? Not anymore.

— Jun 14, 2026 02:40AM

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— Jun 13, 2026 05:49PM

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"... Diapers.com was excited for its future and saw no reason to sell out to Amazon.
That wouldn't do. Amazon [...] proceeded to set $200 million on fire over every single month, selling diapers bellow cost. In the end, Diapers.com went bust; Amazon picked it up for pennies on the dollar and then shut it down."

They did this to BookDepository too 😭😭😭

— Jun 07, 2026 02:33AM

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"... HP still has to worry that once you discover the existence of cheap, reliable third-party ink, you'll stop buying HP cartriges forever."

Which is why HP now charges a monthly subscription for pinting, making it so you can't use their printers unless you pay your subscription 🫣

— Jun 06, 2026 03:43AM

Tamara is 10% done

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"Amazon’s software tells the drivers what route to drive, sets (impossible) quotas for deliveries, and demands the dismissal of drivers who don’t live up to the standards it sets.

This is why the roads leading to Amazon depots are littered with sealed bottles of human urine. There is no way for drivers to meet quota and keep their jobs if they’re stopping to pee, so, caught between a kidney stone and a hard place, they pee in bottles in the van, tightly screwing on the lids afterward (something you don’t forget to do twice). Amazon doesn’t like the bad press this generates, so it has ordered DSP operators to search returning vans for pee bottles, with punishments for drivers caught with evidence of having indulged the inescapable human need to eliminate their bodies’ waste, forcing the drivers to chuck them out the window on the way back to the depot."

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