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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • I think lately Pewdiepie has had far fewer brush-ups against his years of the bigoted and Neo-Nazi vein of humour. I believe it was more naive complicity than intention. While that doesn’t remove the harm he had done in the past, he has apologized and I think he has, by and large, moved past tone-deaf jokes about peoples’ race, sex or religion in the last few years.

    Bottom browsers appear to be an “I don’t know” tier.















  • Some people are addicted to sugar to the point where every beverage must be sweet flavoured.

    I have water, but othertimes I am sugar addicted so I want a different beverage.

    Also I have had tap water in various places across Canada. Most are decent, some are especially delicious, some have awful after tastes and even smell weird (sulfur or chlorine). If that stuff runs to your home I can understand why people prefer bottled water, tea or soda instead of tap water.




  • Mr. Doctorow has expressed before he doesn’t mind enshittification being used casually as it helps proliferate it. But strictly speaking by his original definition, there are three stages:

    • Offer something extremely good to your customers, to expand reach even at a loss.
    • Once enough of the market is captured, offer something very good or unique to your business clients, at the expense of customers.
    • Once enough of business is captured, extract value from the platform at the expense of business clients and customers in favour of shareholders and owners.

    Now, yes, this type of thing has long been common, in terms of oligarchic, monopolistic capitalism, cartels, mafia, colonial market exploitation, etc. But the original context of the word, to clarify, has to do with the kind of changes enabled by technology (twiddling), where digital firms can A/B test, degrade the experience in minor increments or for algorithmically based sectors, pretending certain failures are accidental glitches, so that it is hard to notice and the justice system can’t keep up. With traditional rackets, a court with enough of an anti-trust mindset can effectively identify the affected class, identify and effectively deal with the scheme. The modern “enshittification” is much more elusive, and we’re only beginning to think about how to tackle this form of subtle yet widespread manipulation enabled by digital technology.