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1. Jonathan (infrequentbrilliance@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 13:27:33 UTC Jonathan

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   The Washington Post this morning calls out what @pluralistic has already pointed out…#Amazon is in full #enshittification mode.

   https://wapo.st/3ryUgUD

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   • Taylor Jessen (sidfudd@4bear.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 13:27:29 UTC Taylor Jessen

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     @infrequentbrilliance @pluralistic Amazon spokes-puddle Patrick Graham on why, when you search for a specific thing on Amazon, your results are full of items that are specifically not that thing: “This practice is good for customers — it drives discovery and presents them with more choices.”

     Related news: New Amazon navigation app to encourage serendipitous discovery by finding the quickest route to your destination, then driving you off a cliff into the ocean

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   • David Nash (dpnash@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 13:29:24 UTC David Nash

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     @SidFudd @infrequentbrilliance @pluralistic Seems like what we need to do is lock all the Big Tech spokespuddles into a Truman Show-style alternate universe where every time they do something that a reasonable person would consider "asking for something specific", they get something else.
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 13:29:24 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @dpnash @SidFudd @pluralistic @infrequentbrilliance Makes me think of that Philip K Dick scene where the protagonist's door wants to charge him for opening it.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 14:07:46 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > Steadman’s tweet has been enthusiastically retweeted and picked upon. See, for instance, Slate’s article Philip K. Dick Warned Us About the Internet of Things in 1969. That Slate article, like much of the attention Steadman’s tweet has garnered, misses the point spectacularly; it goes on to explain how terrible IoT is, and how prescient Dick is being.

     > The important words in Steadman’s tweet weren’t “Internet of Things”; the important word was *capitalism*.