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Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

two sheds said:
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Tesla Cybertruck bricked after car wash, claims user

Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: 'Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage'
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:D
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MAD MUSK: TANTRUM ROAD


FADE IN:
EXT: SMALL VILLAGE SURROUNDED BY HIGH BUT RAMSHACKLE WALLS. AFTER THE APOCALYPSE.

In the distance, a pall of dust rises from the desert.
The Lookout: see that it's a fleet of Cybertrucks
LOOKOUT:
Mayor, Mayor, We've being attacked by Cybertrucks, we're out of thermonuclear explosions, bombs, EMPs, caltrops and the tanktraps have not being dug yet.

MAYOR:
Don't worry. Unleash the garden sprinkler.​

CUT TO: FLEET OF CYBERTRUCK COMING TO A HALT.

FADE TO BLACK WITH WHITE TEXT "AND THE WAR WAS WON"

FIN
 
Re enshittification was thinking today can you enshittify a bottle of Listerine, my go to mouth wash? Pretty stable product over the years, right? Make it so the cap doesn’t work and it pours out in the shopping bag. Are digital media companies more vulnerable to it because of the ever shifting changes of tech? It wouldn’t surprise me that if Facebook had stayed the way it was in say circa 2009 it would be more popular today? But then maybe it is not about what the users want just how much adveristing can be crammed on. It’s perhaps a vicious cycle: better user experience, less advertising? More advertising, less users. This sort of internet tech is so complex, and their busniness models.
 
With Facebook, it’s a case that they’ve just taken more and more control from you. When I read a post on one of the groups I’m in they always do this ‘top comments’ thing where they curate comments that are shown in a seemingly random order with most missing. You have to click on ‘show all comments’ (which puts all responses in a chronological order) for it to make sense. Yet there’s no way of making ‘show all comments’ the default. EBay does something similar with search results. Just fuck off ‘curating’ and interfering with content I want to read. One of the reasons I barely bother with it anymore.
 
Dogsauce said:
With Facebook, it’s a case that they’ve just taken more and more control from you. When I read a post on one of the groups I’m in they always do this ‘top comments’ thing where they curate comments that are shown in a seemingly random order with most missing. You have to click on ‘show all comments’ (which puts all responses in a chronological order) for it to make sense. Yet there’s no way of making ‘show all comments’ the default. EBay does something similar with search results. Just fuck off ‘curating’ and interfering with content I want to read. One of the reasons I barely bother with it anymore.
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Yeah the entire meta suite doesn’t let you have any input or customisation. It’s just gotten worse and worse over the years

You’ll see posts from days ago crop up at some points and genuinely miss updates from loved ones
 
BigMoaner said:
Re enshittification was thinking today can you enshittify a bottle of Listerine, my go to mouth wash? Pretty stable product over the years, right? Make it so the cap doesn’t work and it pours out in the shopping bag. Are digital media companies more vulnerable to it because of the ever shifting changes of tech? It wouldn’t surprise me that if Facebook had stayed the way it was in say circa 2009 it would be more popular today? But then maybe it is not about what the users want just how much adveristing can be crammed on. It’s perhaps a vicious cycle: better user experience, less advertising? More advertising, less users. This sort of internet tech is so complex, and their busniness models.
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Please see new unremovable caps on soft drinks and bottles of water.

Enshittified.
 
Artaxerxes said:
Yeah the entire meta suite doesn’t let you have any input or customisation.
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When it first became popular this was actually a good feature, the site was actually useable compared to MySpace which allowed any old idiot to decorate their page however they wanted, with background images making text unreadable, animated flash bollocks and all sorts of other visual abhorrence. The simplicity had a certain elegance, but that’s what they’ve now completely shitted up. Twitter had a nice brevity when it first emerged too, but now that’s cluttered with ads, essays that need you to click on posts to read fully and spammed to fuck.
 
I thought the non-removable caps were to keep plastics together for recycling purposes and to do with zillions of bottle tops on beaches, etc, and therefore not so shit. (Yes, I know recycling of plastics is often bollocks and much of it goes to landfill or gets dumped in some of the world's poorest countries.)
 
I read a while ago that the plastic in the caps can't be recycled with the plastics in the bottles. I'd suggest that perhaps they now can but I'm not that confident they know what they're doing.
 
Serge Forward said:
I thought the non-removable caps were to keep plastics together for recycling purposes and to do with zillions of bottle tops on beaches, etc, and therefore not so shit. (Yes, I know recycling of plastics is often bollocks and much of it goes to landfill or gets dumped in some of the world's poorest countries.)
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They are. But they are shit.
 
all this reminds me of the meme/trend of "the nerds are cool/sexy" about 10-15 years ago. The silicon valley tech bros and gals were the masters of the universe and suddenly had huge cultural clout. The artists, often wrecked and starving, took a back seat as some chap in converses warbled on about "disruption". - the huamnities, the usual places of "cool" and inspiritaiton seemed to receeded from teh cultural hihg points. and this never sat well with me. We should not valorise nerds - those with technocratic, hyper reductive scientific views of teh world - this is not healthy. Elon Musk is not healthy. Nothing wrong with nerds or tech bros in and of itself, but to worship them, no thanks. now i think, and i could well be massively wrong, the folk who say they have silicon valley jobs are probably not being met with quite the same cache. Doesn't have quite the same ring. Good.
 
“Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers (Nick Bostrom)... Bostrom himself issued an apology last year after a decades-old email surfaced in which he claimed “Blacks are more stupid than whites” and used the N-word.”

www.theguardian.com

Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher

Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
two sheds said:
I read a while ago that the plastic in the caps can't be recycled with the plastics in the bottles. I'd suggest that perhaps they now can but I'm not that confident they know what they're doing.
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Certainly in our region, plastic bottles are recycled without caps, not sure where the caps end up...
 
BigMoaner said:
all this reminds me of the meme/trend of "the nerds are cool/sexy" about 10-15 years ago. The silicon valley tech bros and gals were the masters of the universe and suddenly had huge cultural clout. The artists, often wrecked and starving, took a back seat as some chap in converses warbled on about "disruption". - the huamnities, the usual places of "cool" and inspiritaiton seemed to receeded from teh cultural hihg points. and this never sat well with me. We should not valorise nerds - those with technocratic, hyper reductive scientific views of teh world - this is not healthy. Elon Musk is not healthy. Nothing wrong with nerds or tech bros in and of itself, but to worship them, no thanks. now i think, and i could well be massively wrong, the folk who say they have silicon valley jobs are probably not being met with quite the same cache. Doesn't have quite the same ring. Good.
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Were "the humanities" ever cool? I certainly don't remember that being a thing. Just nerds of a different stripe.
 
Dogsauce said:
Twitter had a nice brevity when it first emerged too, but now that’s cluttered with ads, essays that need you to click on posts to read fully and spammed to fuck.
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I went back on briefly the other day and was genuinely a bit shocked how much worse it is even over the relatively short time I'd been away. Not just being overrun with rightwing dickheads getting their paid-for comments front loaded under every post but the sheer amount of spam and dodgy ads.
 
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