Word of year: "enshittification".
"First platforms are good to users; then they abuse users to make things better for business customers. Finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this 'enshittification'.”
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/try-using-the-word-of-the-year-in-a-sentence-20241125-p5ktcg.html
"First platforms are good to users; then they abuse users to make things better for business customers. Finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this 'enshittification'.”
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/try-using-the-word-of-the-year-in-a-sentence-20241125-p5ktcg.html
Comments
It began in 2015 & McDonald's cold, congealed, cheeseburgers taking 20 mins; being thrown together by disenfranchised kids, who have neither hope nor ambition & forget to include chopped onion, is the physical embodiment of it!
Enshittification.
Morning! 😈
you can also read his blog https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Now, the new improved tech bro tech means you can do all the knobs before your first coffee of the day