Enshittification

Bing is the Cybertruck of search engines.

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Crosspost-- jobs get enshittified too.

(And anyway, Sarah Cooper is always awesome.)

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Done. Thanks!

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I use fire.ca.gov and it’s bookmarked on both my phone and my work computer. Even if it’s a local (city or county) fire, the state website keeps it pretty well updated.

Other users mention watchduty.org, but you have to use their app and I hate using apps. They also get their data from fire.ca.gov.

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Jeebus, they’re just begging to get Luigi’d, ain’t they?

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Amazing that this is where we are now.
I am not complaining about the phrase at all.

Fuckin’ hell, bring on the guillotines.

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TIL Luigi is a verb.

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It is now!

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I’ve been playing Mario Party Jamboree with the fam since Christmas. When it is Luigi’s turn on the board game, he says “Luigi time!” Every time I read another article like this, my brain replays that snippet. I read horrible thing insurance company did and my brain says “Luigi time!”

There is a cheerful femme announcer for some things in the game. The voice will say “New turn!” at the beginning of the round. While the voice never says this in the game, every time I hear/read about Elon’s latest fuckery, up pop’s up an image of the bright, cherry voice saying “Mario! It’s your turn!” And then Mario saying “Mario time!”

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The thing that MPs said is scaremongering and wouldn’t happen but is actually happening? Yeah.

I also note that Charles Stross may have to shut down a very vibrant community on his blog because we can’t have nice things anymore and this just consolidates massive tech corps who can soak up the fines.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/12/storm-cloud-approaching-rapidl.html

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Microsoft testing 45 percent M365 price hikes in Asia to make sure you can enjoy AI

There is some sort of opt-out - if you can find it…

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You don’t say?

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Especially when you staff a 100,000 square foot store with just one person.

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I wonder if they will reverse their “never clean the store” policy as well.

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I mean, if I can’t look at the items to compare ingredients, I’d rather buy them online. It’s ridiculous that I have to wait over 10 minutes for an employee to unlock a cabinet so I can select a deodorant or toothpaste.

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