#bewareoftheleopard — Public Fediverse posts
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Yet another face eating leopard reference on my timeline and I'm suddenly aware that I haven't ever seen (I think) any stickerware/cartoon imagery/etc for that beast.
Is there any?
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CW: Long thread/23
Amazon's burying of this vital information will be familiar to #DouglasAdams readers, as the "#BewareOfTheLeopard" tactic. It's not even the first time Amazon's deployed it:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/27/beware-of-the-leopard/#relentless
Another group of scholars recently coined a useful term to describe this ripoff: in a paper published last week, @timoreilly, #MarianaMazzucato and #IlanStrauss dubbed the costs of all this complexity #AttentionRents:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/subprime-attention-rent-crisis/#euthanize-rentiers
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CW: art of AI origin, large cat inexplicably indoors, eye contact