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   AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 05:00:17 JST AJ Sadauskas

   Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

   We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
   We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
   We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
   We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
   We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
   We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
   We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

   Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

   But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

   And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

   Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

   Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

   We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

   We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

   Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

   You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

   We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

   By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

   By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

   #startup #business #tech #technology @technology

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 05:00:16 JST Sexy Moon

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     @ajsadauskas most of those things deserve to be destroyed and replaced
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     skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: (skribe@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 15:11:33 JST skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard:

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     @ajsadauskas @technology I see you know my Facebook friends too 😁

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     Brian Tatosky (virtualbri@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 07:12:53 JST Brian Tatosky

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     @ajsadauskas @technology Every "innovation" and "disruption" is an existing thing but worse

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     hapbt (hapbt@epsilon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 07:13:26 JST hapbt

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     @ajsadauskas @technology when we go out of business though we expect to be bailed out just like all the regulated industries

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     Scrummy (scrummy@jawns.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 13:16:40 JST Scrummy

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     • Brian Tatosky

     @virtualbri @ajsadauskas @technology Every disruption is an existing thing we figured out how to extract rents from

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     Bargearse (largess@mastodon.au)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 15:16:19 JST Bargearse

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     • AnarchoNinaWrites

     @ajsadauskas

     We're totally not just an old school ad delivery portal...like those old school newspapers and commercial television stations delivering ads

     Google, Meta, Twitter...

     @technology @AnarchoNinaWrites

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     Zuzu (zuuuzuuu@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 15:16:24 JST Zuzu

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     @ajsadauskas @technology sadly true. This speech has to be famous (congrats). I share it

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     bigiain (bigiain@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 13:20:40 JST bigiain

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     @ajsadauskas @technology "By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!"

     From: noreply@tøøther.com
     Subject: Account closure

     Dear User,

     You have been rated 3 stars or lower by our toothbrushing partners in the last 14 days. For this reason we are closing your Tøøther account and revoking your toothpaste access. This decision is final and there is no appeal process.

     Best regards,

     Tøøther Trust And Safety Team.

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     KatLS (katls@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 06:47:22 JST KatLS

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     @ajsadauskas @technology #enshittification is such a needed word

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     ShantiS (shantis@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 10:08:53 JST ShantiS

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     @ajsadauskas @technology And don’t forget their enablers - the investors who pour in billions of dollars of other people’s money, the marketeers who hype these “disruptive” technologies and the copycats who naively follow them. “Disrupter” used to be a bad word - how that became a badge of honor is another of Silicon Valley’s mysteries. #disruptors #SiliconValley