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Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Cory Doctorow
  • No, but the whole point of Doctorow's Enshittification essay is that it inevitably will. In the same way animals keep evolving into crabs due to convergent evolution, social media companies will keep turning into shit because the market incentives push them that way.

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    Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.
  • Boffins coming up with a magical new solution to a problem that they somehow know will 100% work despite having done zero experimentation or testing.

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    Trump Media shares halted again as DJT falls in volatile trading
  • Unfortunately, it'll probably continue to exist as a way to launder foreign bribes to Trump. Even if Trump soundly loses, he'll still be a useful propaganda mouthpiece.

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    The world prepares to vote against the US blockade on Cuba
  • The company would be prosecuted and the ship seized the next time it docked at port. If the company was based in literally any other country, nothing would happen.

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    Bernie Sanders: Vote Harris because Gaza is ‘not the only issue’
  • Pretend you're a politician. You have two groups of people that want opposite things. One of them is reliable, donates and volunteers to help your campaign. The other is feckless and seems to always find an excuse to oppose you. Which would you try to please?

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    October 14, 2025...
  • You are wrong. Some random guy said that on Twitter and people ran with it. It was never officially stated by Microsoft.

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    October 14, 2025...
  • Every OS has a limited life span of support. Linux is no different. Every distro I'm aware of does 5 years or less of support vs Microsoft's 10 years.

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