Notices by brandon (brandon@the-gathering.space)

@HodgesC @jiub @pluralistic I remember hating the switch to hangouts. I think it just seemed slower/laggier, but I don’t remember all of the reasons I hated it. All of these new website “upgrades” where they look more fancy, but are slower, reduce the amount of info visible at once, and take more time to load remind me of the move. I guess it’s enshittification all the way down (up?).

@kaye I feel like if/when we get to that point, everyone will say, “The info on those Wikipedia cds is just wrong. Look at all of this info on Google that contradicts it.” (Or they’ll cite news articles that site books that get the info from an LLM source.)

@cstross @aethylred medical debt can also cause someone to lose it. Imagine someone that’s been working a job that has no uncleared counterpart for 20 years, then has a child with a disability on our healthcare system. Some of them also require a polygraph. I suspect a lack of conscience, concern, or an ability to lie provides a large boost there.