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If you spend much time online (which I recommend against), over time you'll learn that everything you use is bad. But is it really bad or are people just saying that because that's the current trend?
Enshittification was once largely relegated to online services. Now so much of every day life is tied to these online services that enshittification is spreading to everything. Today I look at the enshittification of policing.
Credit cards. Smartphones. Social media. All of these technologies are widely used. All of them are sold to us as being fun, conveinent, and practical. All of them are being used to build a cage around us.
The tech industry is abuzz with fears of AI developing sapiance and taking over humanity. I agree that AI has a chance of taking over humanity, but not because it'll become sapient.
This posts continues from my previous one. I highlight another egregious exampls of how we're being coerced into using approved smartphones.
In the past, anybody could buy concert tickets and have them mailed to their home. Then the Internet allowed people to buy tickets and print them at home. Those days are gone. Now you need an app on your venue approved smartphone.
The world is caught in a seemingly endless cycle of enshitification. This is my rant.
Dinosaur OS has required very few changes since I first created it. A recent change in the updating behavior in Bluefin encouraged me to finally go forward with a change I had planned initially but decided against.
It's trendy for people to make New Year's resolutions to go to the gym. Most of them stop within a month. Now that we're passed that month and the quitters are weeded out, I want to share my guide on getting started with kettlebells.
The universe we occupy is a very complex system. The human brain prefers simple answers. This combination leads to some fascinating beliefs.