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   Cassandra 📍 San Francisco (for real!) (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 12:09:51 JST Cassandra 📍 San Francisco (for real!)

   Having now seen two different ways that the AI bubble seems to be popping, I want to say something about what comes next so far as I can see and affect the world. Maybe the bubble isn't actually popping yet, in which case this is premature, but still.

   Once the AI bubble is gone, and there's no more sparkling anus buttons everywhere trying to dark pattern you into using AI, I want to ask you to hold on to the feeling you have now, with every button being an erosion of consent.

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     Cassandra 📍 San Francisco (for real!) (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 12:09:51 JST Cassandra 📍 San Francisco (for real!)

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     The AI bubble is only possible because tech as an industry has a huge infrastructure for pushing boundaries, eroding consent, and forcing functionality on users. That infrastructure isn't going away just because they decided not to use it for sparkling anus buttons any more.

     It's going to still be there, in terms of prompting you to reduce privacy and increase ads, to accept locked-in platforms instead of open protocols. It's still there in terms of age verification.

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     Jeff Grigg (jeffgrigg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 12:10:45 JST Jeff Grigg

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     @xgranade

     The part about consent violation that really surprised me was corporations accepting that their operating system and application vendors can just force advertising on all their employees, without corporate or employee consent.

     I raised the issue to corporate security at one point, as M$ Windoze kept advertising *games* to corporate employees on corporate computers, disregarding severe corporate policies forbidding anyone from using such games. But I could not get anyone to "care."

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     Cassandra 📍 San Francisco (for real!) (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 12:10:46 JST Cassandra 📍 San Francisco (for real!)

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     The fact that they used that vast consent-violation infrastructure to push something as clownshoes balls-out bullshit as AI makes that infrastructure *visible*. But it doesn't go away just because we can't see it.

     I ask that folks hold on to the feeling of violation, and recognize how much that feeling still applies even when those violations are harder to see.

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     V (miss_rodent@girlcock.club)'s status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 12:11:20 JST V

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     @xgranade it's also... not the first time they've done this, it won't be the last unless we actually do something about the core structural problems that encourage it.
     Letting this sort of shit sit and become normalized each time they cross boundaries has been a recurring problem for like 30 years.