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When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)
Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.
Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)
I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)
YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)
The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)
The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)
The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)
It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)
Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???
To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)
So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)
It's called planned obsolescence and it was invented when lightbulbs could still run for 1000 years. Enshittification is the web-specific (and more specifically social media) version of that.
Eh, they're related concepts, but a lot of people clearly haven't read the original article that defined it, and it shows.
Enshittification isn't planned obsolescence, which is just making things shitter by putting a time limit on how long they function. It's a feature that serves the seller and the stock holders, not the customer. Enshittification is a process, not a feature.
The beginning part of enshittification is deliberately making a better product than the nearest competitors, and giving it to people for free.
An essential part of enshittification is not merely drawing you in with something good, but making you depend on it as a key underpinning of your life. The only way you communicate with many of your friends and family (Facebook). The only way to order most items you need, when you need them (Amazon). The only way to process online payments (PayPal). The only way to get up-to-the-minute news and send out emergency messages (Twitter).
The first version of the platform (and it is specifically a platform thing - a platform being something you use to accomplish your other projects) has to be so good that virtually no one goes anywhere else anymore.
That step is like the old Starbucks thing of opening a million locations, offering a quality product, undercutting the local competition until they go out of business and you can't go anywhere else, at which point the prices rise and the quality goes down. The standard monopoly playbook.
But enshittification is more insidious than that. It's about creating a (virtual) place that you need to use not simply to get one product, but to accomplish the important things in your life.
People don't stay on Facebook because it's the only way to socially interact online - it's not! People are trapped using Facebook even though they hate it because their elderly parents and high school friends use it and won't use anything else.
People don't leave Amazon because when you rely on deliveries (eg you are disabled, you live somewhere rural, you need a package your next day or your boss will kill you), with a Prime account, it's the only way to accomplish what you need. AND it's the only way to watch a lot of your favourite TV shows, or access Kindle Unlimited books etc. When I choose between, say, Disney+ and Prime, I reflect that both companies suck, but Prime gets me free and fast deliveries that include everything from groceries to medicines to compost. I am disabled. When I can I order from somewhere else. But relatively frequently I can't. So right now I have Prime and not Disney+.
Enshittification isn't just about eliminating the competition, it's about *trapping* you into using something that gets worse and worse while being the only way for you to get things that are genuinely important. They make you live your life through them by taking indirect ownership of intangible things, like vital pathways to maintain your friendships, and then once they have you, they count on the combination of inertia and the value you place on those intangible things to keep you there no matter how bad it gets.
So I, who have never liked Facebook, even right at the start when I had to sign up to accept a party invitation, am still there, despite everything, because a whole bunch of my friends, my publishing network contacts, and my family, will not go anywhere else. They just won't leave. So leaving Facebook, for me, means severing contact with hundreds of people, some of whom are extremely important to me.
That's enshittification. It's the process by which they make sure you don't leave when it gets shit.
And yeah, the only way to tackle this is to regulate the fucking tech companies. Tell your MP.
Office comedy where the pilot episode newbie is being walked around to meet all their colleagues and they get introduced to the pair of coworkers who are snappy, electric, flirty, filling each other's coffee orders, finishing each other's sentences, desk leaning, bedroom eyes, feet kicking
And when the newbie asks someone "Are those two uh, you know?" the seasoned coworker goes "Aha yeah. Divorced 🙂"
And this isn't a broken-up couple on the rebound. They've absolutely always been like this with each other save for the 11 months they were married, during which time every single day was a murder-suicide risk.
Here is the letter that I wrote to our democratic candidate, who said 'i do not support letting boys play in girls sports.' I also posted it to the Indivisible group, proving once again that we are... quite divisible.
Under the cut because its long.
"Dear Dr. Acton,
To be outspoken against trans youths in sports in a state where more than one in ten adults identify as LGBTQ+ is regrettable and shortsighted. It not only shows a failure in understanding of gender, but also of sports.
I barely even have a toe in the sports culture in Ohio and yet here I am discussing equality in school sports with our would-be governor. I was a high school sports photographer for four years, and in that time I noted a few things regarding gender segregation.
The first is that it isn’t uncommon for girls to play in boy’s sports. In areas where there is not enough interest for a complete girl’s team, schools allow a team to become mixed-gender. Wrestling, particularly, often has girls competing against boys- the classifications are by weight. Competitors do not fight outside their weight class, but they will fight outside their gender within that weight class.
My high school football team had a female kicker in 1999. In 2010, Kelly Kulick defeated 62 of he country’s top male professional bowlers. Shooting events only became segregated by sex at the Olympics in 1992 when Zhang Shan outclassed other participants by hitting a perfect 200/200 of her targets.
A 2024 BBC article titled “The Sports Where Women Outperform Men” cites Professor Sandbakk of UiT The Arctic University of Norway states that its very difficult to separate biological and social aspects contributing to differences between men and women in sports performance. This includes unequal access to sport opportunities.
The second is variation in human physiology. As a doctor, you should be familiar with the variety within a single demographic- as a species, humans are not terribly sexually dimorphic compared to things like birds or amphibians. Women have wider pelvic bones, but narrow variations affect 15%-20% of women. This does not make them men.
In 2023, the International Boxing Association disqualified several athletes from women’s competitions at the World Championships. This disqualified a number of athletes, including Imane Khelif who- up until this moment- had been competing with women.
Khelif is not, to anyone’s knowledge, a trans woman. In fact, in her home country of Algeria, being transgender is strictly prohibited and under the 1966 Penal Code is considered an ‘act of homosexuality’ and ‘public indecency’ - punishable for up to 3 years imprisonment and heavy fines. However- many people jumped on this ruling as a reason to exclude Khelif from the 2024 Paris Olympics, and debate spawned on whether or not she should give back her gold medal.
Those who are under-educated on the nuances of chromosomes and intersex conditions, and who felt that this controversy was an example of why transgender women do not belong in women’s sports, began making unkind observations about Khelif that echo racist phrenology. Unfeminine features like a square jaw, a long face, muscular arms. But she was every bit a woman that you and I are.
When we say that trans girls do not belong in girl’s sports, that puts the onus of defining womanhood on someone who has different ideas of what a woman should be. This is unfair to women like me, who had to have a hysterectomy for medical reasons. Or my girlfriend, who has had facial hair since she was eleven. No doubt you’ve heard people speculating on Michelle Obama’s womanhood, despite having two daughters.
Femininity is heavily policed, unfairly so. Women are being harassed at women’s restrooms for not conforming to a standard visual representation of what someone else thinks women ought to be. It was not long ago that lesbians were thought to be dangerous to have in high school sports. We have come a long way since then, but I hear the echoes of it in your voice.
If women can do anything that a man can do, then there is no reason to insist that separating them in competition is ‘fair.’ If womanhood is subjective, then the barriers for entry are also subjective. In an ideal world, sports would be separated by things like weight or skill level. I know that is a lofty ask by today’s standards. Today I simply ask that you listen.
Just because it is the law doesn’t mean that it is right. There are many laws in Ohio that were made to appease a conservative base and do not apply broadly to the scope of peoples who live here. Taking a stand with your trans Ohioans and listening to what they have to say is the first step towards a future where everyone can live the rich, full life that they deserve.
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Reblog if you want your Jewish friends to know that you love Jewish culture and resilience, they’re always welcome on your blog, and you cherish their friendship
When the rest of the world is hating them, our Jewish friends deserve a little love!
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my take for the day. being edgy (and i mean shadow the hedgehog, 2005 mcr, scene kid edgy. not 4chan edgy) is in fact very good and i’d say even important
genuine expression of your emotions, especially your negative ones, is incredibly important to keep your mental health in check. doing it through music (listening or creating), clothes, makeup, poetry, etc is a safe and healthy way to do it
bottling up your emotions is never good. if listening to bring me the horizon helps you process your views on the world, do it. if smudging your eyeliner feels like you’re matching your inside to your outside, do it. if drawing bloody characters makes you feel better, do it. who cares if some boring loser thinks it’s cringe. do it for yourself
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i think in many ways I really did dodge several bullets in terms of typical social expectations for girls and women by simply having disqualifying traits from the outset. i don't think that got me treated especially well growing up, but I DO think that its nice as an adult to just... not ever worry about 90% of the stuff that women are told they Must Worry About Very Much Or Else, because I never counted anyway and it simply doesn't occur to me
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