Notices by JWM (Joe No Se) (ildiavolorosso@sfba.social)

@georgetakei You can also use a privacy browser like Brave or Vivaldi instead of Youtube's #enshittified app. These browsers will also remove the ads, without a VPN.

How short-sighted does a company have to be to require 12 volt power to use door handles?

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09/tesla-model-y-door-handles-now-under-federal-safety-scrutiny/

Truly sad....

@georgetakei Hey, they also made fun of her shooting puppies. I don’t hear her complaining about that…

#Oregon just became the first state to end private equity and corporate control of doctor and clinical practices.

This is huge. I do wish California and other states would follow suit, but the corporate money is so entrenched in politics here that it would take a miracle for it to happen.

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/09/bill-enacting-nations-strictest-limits-on-corporate-health-care-influence-signed-by-gov-kotek/

As usual, The Onion is on point and perfectly-timed.

The statement “why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write?” almost perfectly captures so many peoples’ feelings about #AI.

And it evokes @pluralistic’s reminder that although AI probably can’t do your job, an AI salesman can probably convince your boss that it can.

In the end, this technology (or rather the market for this tech) is aimed squarely at its least noble use: cheapening and degrading human labor that doesn’t fit neatly into a balance sheet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5qzdjqxo

@georgetakei CAN they even read?

@pluralistic @cryptadamist @oof Herbalife and other corporate MLMs had an actual term for this: being “garage-qualified” meaning that you spent part of your life savings buying the minimum stock to attain a certain level, and it sat unsold in your garage.

@johnefrancis @arstechnica The key thing about #Enshittification is that it happens, in part, because of the lack of discipline imposed by competition. So end consumers like us are often trapped with no alternative.

@johnefrancis @arstechnica Mine are both a bit older too. One is connected but the other is not, because it becomes almost non-functional when it is disconnected. I'm replacing my home routing setup with something a bit more sophisticated, and I'm going to see how well the router's ad-blocking DNS works on the TV.

It's such a shame that the Digital Milenium Copyright Act makes it nearly impossible for anyone to create an open-source TV OS to replace the bloatware TV manufacturers ship.

@Csik @thefathippy @dblume @pluralistic @freequaybuoy

@pluralistic Maybe the collective action problem gets easier in small increments. Like intermittent fasting, but for toxic and #enshittified social media platforms.

I'm deleting all Meta platforms for at least a week. And I'm looking forward to the attention span I get back from just focusing on the Fediverse and real life.

Sage advice from @pluralistic as usual. Reminds me of an old song Jello Biafra wrote about puritans in the punk scene… https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba

I recently started using @npr 's mobile app again, and man...has it gone downhill. We've lost the straight local station streams, and instead we have to put up with a "local" stream with NPR-inserted targeted ads every few minutes. It's worse than commercial radio. Truly a case of @pluralistic's #enshittification in action.

NPR is a vital resource...it's tough to watch something this bad come out of the organization I rely on for so much. I'll stick to the regular airwaves for now.

@mcv @pluralistic @CptSuperlative Funny, I had the same thought when I saw @pluralistic’s post. Smith is selectively quoted for ideological purposes. I was lucky to read this book in college that helped me build a more nuanced view of his views: https://www.ebay.com/itm/305979074258?_skw=the+worldly+philosophers&epid=20038567854&itmmeta=01JFFKG5NRSZ5F0GG8KG7FRKAC&hash=item473dc626d2:g:5PwAAOSwkSdnYKB2&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKkv8oAff4UVvh6kOv9b5dNEhzgUPFkDvTxUMfCF29E78MXvT32anEKW9gtTbXYJgPT8txw87D9DDTtDDXQkcK99wU%2BHK6iODEd%2BCxlpDUO%2FbVR6v8RRMzNZl25qJIcjMb6ziXcfq9PMnDsXfEwrvvsaSmWj%2BEEnau0LaW35ukL%2FCQqjEIksmRolWf9dDvMWpWVaSrWfKuHNN7D94NyB3rvznw0ZkylW13AjAsiFlaXn2Szr7jYDELHJdSl6u5SAS%2Bem2Pcd6z06bo2%2F6rNdNujaywMkkcnO4g0i07cBzFPCiQ%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBM-NrA8_tk