Notices by Paul Graham Raven (paulgrahamraven@assemblag.es)

Wow, hoooooly shit has Substack gotten super-thirsty.

Just signed up for someone's letter, what must be the first time in a good couple of months or more, and had to click through four pages of not-quite-dark-pattern attempts to get me to sign up for all sorts of other only marginally related bollocks...

I'll give it to the end of the year before they've gone full enshittification, as per @pluralistic

"200 years ago, Luddites rose up against machines. Contrary to the ahistorical libel you've heard, the Luddites weren't angry or frightened of machines--they were angry at the machines' owners. They understood--correctly--that the purpose of a machine "so easy a child could use it" was to fire skilled adult workers and replace them with kidnapped, indentured Napoleonic War orphans who could be maimed and killed on the job without consequence."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/15/wellness-taylorism/#sick-of-spying

Preach it, @pluralistic

@debcha @fugueish @dymaxion

Hints of "sousveillance" in your description, here, though I'm sure you've thought of that one and discarded it already