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Here’s a worthwhile post from @[email protected] on the topic of ‘Enshittification’. The economic reasons for enshittification Under capitalism, a company’s ultimate goal is to increase profits. Most people realize that there are 3 basic ways of doing this: Increase revenue (develop better products, acquire more customers). Decrease costs (improve production technology). A combination of the above. What most people don’t realize, is that this is a naïve, outdated view that applies only to young industries (it applied pretty much to everyone in the early stages of capitalism, because most industries were young - and this is why it is an established, widespread view). ...

Sebastian Klovig Skelton writes in “Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight” for computerweekly.com All in all, an analysis of Microsoft’s distributed documentation – conducted by independent security consultant Owen Sayers and shared with Computer Weekly – suggests that Microsoft personnel or contractors can remotely access the data from 105 different countries, using 148 different sub-processors. ...

Hidde de Vries writes in »The writer, the text and the audience« for hidde.blog What the artist puts in and what the audience experiences could amount to a lot or to very little. Either side could pretend. And surely, just not all art is made or enjoyed with a lot of care. But when it is, art can be truly special. And impossible to compute. ...