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   CaveDave (engravecavedave@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 00:55:44 JST CaveDave

   I think at this point, #enshittification has become so ubiquitous that people equate enshittification practices with progress. Let me explain with a real world example.

   The Danish government have a new app for public transport called #rejsekort. It automatically detects the nearest stop from your precise location and you just check in and out as you need to from your phone. While convenient, this system is set up to eventually replace the current infrastructure using transport cards. (1/?)

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 00:55:44 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     I bet people making the decisions are not using the system, and never find themselves stuck without battery, or having had their portable telescreens stolen. they only see how the collected data can be monetized and how surveillance capitalism is normalizing it, not how collected data is toxic like nuclear waste
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 04:28:29 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     my (admittedly obscure and misleading, I see now) reference to SC was because it sets the precedent, normalizes, and pushes for this sort of solutionism. governments, whether corrupt or just gullible, have been following along and entrenching the duopoly with solutionism that displaces working and accessible services. it's maddening.
     when schools started adopting google for ad-ucation tools, it was not because they wanted to make kids dependent for life, it was because google sold them an illusion that it would be great for the students and for the schools. it is a kind of corruption, but it's not necessarily the kind in which the powers that be take a side payment or a luxury trip; it can get honest decision-makers to embrace horrible systems whose downsides only become apparent when it's too late
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     CaveDave (engravecavedave@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 04:28:30 JST CaveDave

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     • Alexandre Oliva

     @lxo I'm not completely sure but this is a Danish governmental service. I don't think they're selling the data so Idk if it counts as surveillance capitalism. Would it?

     In Scandinavia it's quite common for politicians to take public transport and bike. Pretty sure they've taken the metro and S trains in Copenhagen. As for constantly having devices ... I would think they are privileged enough to constantly have new phones with ample battery life though. So may be out of touch with poorer people

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 04:34:04 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     full disclosure: I don't carry a tracking device, I don't wish to carry a tracking device, and every public or private service that attempts to deny me service for this reasonable choice comes across not only as an accessibility barrier, but as an existential threat.
     it's an artificial disability imposed on me, that I find myself constantly struggling with nowadays. it's become quite a trigger.