#roteconomy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #roteconomy, aggregated by home.social.
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“AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo. It just wears a new mask now.”
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The AI griftosphere is starting to show its ass. Good. May that hasten its overdue demise.
Latest from @Zitron
from 03/24/2026:
"The AI Industry is Lying to You"
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A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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GenAI is also the real-world corollary to my hypothetical cornerstone argument against nuclear power: We have proven, time and time again, that the capitalist hunger for literal power knows no bounds. GenAI is sucking up massive amounts of energy and power, driving neighboring populations insane from the noise, and having untold consequences on the environment outside of those factors... We are already on track to outstrip current power production in an age where we need to be *decreasing* our power demands. Nuclear just creates *different* pollution, one which will quickly pile up if our power demands aren't curtailed.
But y'know, become a fucking "prompt engineer" or whatever fake-ass job you can imagine to keep propping up and legitimizing this death-cult economy.
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That fact that I can't afford to live unsubsidized as a skilled mechanic and I hear people talking about training to become "prompt engineers" makes me want to start smashing servers.
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Gosh, this episode of #EdZitron's ( @Zitron ) #BetterOffline should be mandatory for school classes and family gatherings. How #techMedia is ignoring the #RotEconomy, how #Apple is profiting from its #AppStore actively harming customers, and what we should be fighting for pushing against #Meta, #Google, #Microsoft & Co.
https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/what-were-fighting-for -
How The #TechMedia Can Beat The #RotEconomy
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How The #TechMedia Can Beat The #RotEconomy
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How The #TechMedia Can Beat The #RotEconomy
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How The #TechMedia Can Beat The #RotEconomy
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How The #TechMedia Can Beat The #RotEconomy
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When Google Calendar sees my "Haircut" appointment
. . . and offers "Join With Google Meet" . . .
What Harry Shearer calls a "Smart World"
What Ed Zitron calls "Rot Economy"
#Google #tech #AI #SmartWorld #RotEconomy -
"The tools we use in our daily lives outside of our devices have mostly stayed the same. While buttons on our cars might have moved around — and I’m not even getting into Tesla’s designs right now — we generally have a brake, an accelerator, a wheel, and a turn signal. Boarding an airplane has worked mostly the same way since I started flying, other than moving from physical tickets to digital ones. We’re not expected to work out “the new way to use a toilet” every few months because somebody decided we were finishing too quickly.
Yet our apps and the platforms we use every day operate by a totally different moral and intellectual compass. While the idea of an update is fairly noble (and not always negative) — that something you’ve bought can be maintained and improved over time is a good thing — many tech platforms see it as a means to further extract and exploit, to push users into doing things that either keep them on the app longer or take more-profitable actions.
We as a society need to reckon with how this twists us up, makes us more paranoid, more judgmental, more aggressive, more reactionary, because when everything is subtly annoying, we all simmer and suffer in manifold ways. There is no digital world and physical world — they are, and have been, the same for quite some time, and reporting on tech as if this isn’t the case fails the user. It may seem a little dramatic, but take a second and really think about how many little digital irritations you deal with in a day. It’s time to wake up to the fact that our digital lives are rotten.
I’m not talking about one single product or company, but most digital experiences. The interference is everywhere, and we’ve all learned to accept conditions that are, when written out plainly, are kind of insane."
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I didn't think it was possible, but Ed is even more furious than usual. And he's largely right, I think. Further, he's got a small idea of how to begin clawing back from where we've fallen to, and a rallying cry to build towards a better situation. https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/ #EdZitron #WheresYourEdAt #RotEconomy #2024Review
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Remember the "Simple Mobile Tools" suite of Android apps? It used to be a great collection of basic apps that didn't slurp up your data, clog up your apps with advertising, or charge exorbitant prices. It isn't anymore.
At the end of 2023, the suite was sold to ZipoApps, who proceeded to do all of those things. (This appears to be their business model: buy an app with a large install base and squeeze every last bit of monetization out of it while destroying its usefulness, fun, and credibility.)
Seriously: They replaced the $2.99 one-time payment for the Pro version of Calendar with a $15/week subscription.
Fortunately the apps were all GPL, and there's a complete fork called Fossify. They're still slowly rolling apps out to F-Droid and Google Play, with about 10 out so far.
I use the calendar and contacts apps all the time, and the voice recorder is good for taking quick notes.
Fossify Apps: Replacing Simple Mobile Tools
Update: The file manager and gallery have also been solid (local-only of course), and the phone app handles calls just fine (unless you need more accessibility or transcriptions). The music player does well with local audio.
I ended up dropping the messages app, which is OK for SMS/MMS, but doesn't handle RCS at all. The keyboard really doesn't fit my typing style, and I switched to Heliboard.
#FOSS #Fossify #Android #MobileApps #SimpleMobileTools #RotEconomy #DeFAANG #DeGoogling
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I am sickly fascinated by how awful and weird mobile game ads have become. I'm part of a Facebook group where we share terrible ads and make up lore for the recurring characters. My phone is full of screenshots like this. Some actors from Eastern Europe, who appear in some of the ads, are also in the group. #enshittify #roteconomy #capitalism