Francois Heinderyckx<p>“[E]ven if an L.L.M. was trained exclusively on the best peer-reviewed science, it would still be capable only of generating plausible output, and “plausible” is not necessarily the same as ‘true.’ And now A.I.-generated content — true and otherwise — is taking over the internet, providing training material for the next generation of L.L.M.s, a sludge-generating machine feeding on its own sludge” writes Zeynep Tufekci. </p><p>GIFT LINK:<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/opinion/ai-grok-x-llm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.uU3v.2SwLPT_JhmKi&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/11/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/ai-grok-x-llm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.uU3v.2SwLPT_JhmKi&smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a></p>
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#enshitification
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Alrecenk<p>I tried to buy from <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a>, and it wouldn't let me. Apparently a ton of things are <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/primeday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>primeday</span></a> deals, which means if you don't have <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/AmazonPrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonPrime</span></a> you can't buy them at all. I guess I'll just wait until after the "sale" to do my shopping. Never said that before. <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a></p>
Kyle Memoir 🍉<p>Here's modern IT in a bar:</p><p>[walks up]</p><p>Hey, wanna fuck?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/it" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>it</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ux</span></a></p>
activistPnk<p><strong>Enshitification is /our/ fault, not the enshitifiers</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://slrpnk.net/post/24514464" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">slrpnk.net/post/24514464</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Paul<p>Does anyone know if there's a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> project aiming to replace BeReal?<br>Looking for alternatives as it's gotten ads and I don't trust the company on data protection anymore. </p><p>(Pixelfed seems like the best option I know of but maybe there's something that's more similar)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverseprojects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverseprojects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeReal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeReal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a></p>
trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:<p>Fucking hell. Office 365 defaults to dumping you into a copilot chat session when you log in now? Their really making it hard to get actual quality work done. <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> </p><p>(Im all libreoffice + nextcloud at home, I only touch this crap when work makes me.)</p>
Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:<p>Dismiss. FO!</p><p>Let me guess, In a year it'll be 'upgrade your subscription to keep access to your online ONLY files'.</p><p>I repeat, local storage is comically cheap. You are a backup and syncing tool, nothing more. Go away.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Dropbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dropbox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a></p>
Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:<p>NO! Hardrive space is comically cheap. I want you as a backup not a critical resource. GTFOH!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Dropbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dropbox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/MustGetAroundToFindingAnAlternativeNonBigTechService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MustGetAroundToFindingAnAlternativeNonBigTechService</span></a></p>
vbeyette🇨🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thomasfuchs</span></a></span> the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> of capitalism becomes a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/grifteconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grifteconomy</span></a></p>
Tony<p>To make things worse, it would appear that the setting has now been renamed from "Wireless emergency alerts" to the more cryptic "Service messages". Android is absolutely crammed with pointlessly confusing dark-pattern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ENSHITIFICATION" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ENSHITIFICATION</span></a></p>
Kyle Memoir 🍉<p>The cunts at Apple could have said 'Not all formatting may be presented correctly' but instead they want to assfuck you into buying more shit and creating more waste.</p><p>I have an iPhone 13 on which notes are created and a 10-yr-old in-no-other-way-unserviceable iPad mini 4 and today the mini puked on a note created 10 seconds prior on the phone.</p><p>As George Carlin famously said:</p><p>FUCK THE FUCKING FUCKERS</p><p>I will find a workaround to this horseshit.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fuckyou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckyou</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span></p>
Vincent Daron<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Le_M_Poireau" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Le_M_Poireau</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m.g3l.org/@MedBel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MedBel</span></a></span> je fais partie des irréductibles qui achéte encore des cds... je refuse spotify depuis le début. Mais le streaming a tué le systéme. Je comprends que mes enfants et connaissances ne fasse que ca. Ca va être très difficile de faire marche arriére. Le service va se dégrader, va coûter de plus en plus cher, on le sait, le processus est bien décrit. Pas d'humeur positive ce matin, désolé. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spotify</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libertariens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libertariens</span></a></p>
Makoto :archlinux: :anar:🇧🇪🇹🇭🎧<p>La Nintendo Switch 2 part en vrille - Surchauffe, docks bloqués et Joy-Con qui se barrent | Le site de Korben | <a href="https://exoseed.be/yourls/48" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">exoseed.be/yourls/48</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nintendo</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/greedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greedy</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/merdification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>merdification</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a></p>
oxidand<p>> Court documents suggest Steam's revenues will exceed $10 billion next year, leaving Valve with unprecedented profits but unclear direction for a company that appears to have run out of worlds to conquer</p><p>How is it a problem? <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Valve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Valve</span></a> is one of the few companies that can be called an absolute success. They have an amazing product(s), they are profitable. They are the reason why <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/pcgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pcgaming</span></a> is superior to consoles. They made <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gamingonlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gamingonlinux</span></a> not only possible, but almost painless. Why do they need to grow? Can't an amazing company just stay amazing? Is there a single company that chased "the growth" and didn't turn its product to shit?</p><p>I can't recall a single situation in which things turned out well when <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/investors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>investors</span></a> pushed someone to "grow more". It always ends in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>enshitification</span></a>.</p><p>Making "unprecedented profits" (or simply doing well) is more than enough. It also usually results in a much better product.</p><p>But of course I'd like to know how the story of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gordonfreeman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gordonfreeman</span></a> ends 😅</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/halflife3" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>halflife3</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/0820223/valve-conquered-pc-gaming-what-comes-next" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">games.slashdot.org/story/25/07</span><span class="invisible">/04/0820223/valve-conquered-pc-gaming-what-comes-next</span></a></p>
Nate Gaylinn<p>The hardest part of switching email providers is updating all the sites, apps, and services that have my old address. <em>Everybody</em> wants an email address these days, and they all manage it differently, so it's on me to figure out how to update each one.</p><p>Some are easy. Others are not! An alarming number use my email as my login and won't let me change it <em>at all</em>. Some of those further won't let me delete my account, so I guess they'll have my old address forever. Some sites, like Patreon and Steam, <em>seem</em> to support this, but when I used their update email form, it simply didn't work! I had to contact customer service.</p><p>It's a lot of tedious work, but realizing now how my identity was shared across a <em>vast</em> network of sites who don't handle that with respect, I'm reassured that it's worth the effort.</p><p>New rule of thumb: only actual people get my personal address. Everyone else gets a secondary address / alias that keeps different facets of my life separate.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>degoogle</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a></p>
David W. Jones<p>Enshitification (noun): Synonym for end-stage capitaiism. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/end" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>end</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a></p>
Open Water Otter VE7GR🏳️🌈<p>I'm not going to throw out my <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/Garmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garmin</span></a> (i've had one from the very first) but this is yet another example of a kind of <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a>, this time to support <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/MAHA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAHA</span></a>. <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/wearables-and-wellness-populism-how-smart-watches-got-mahad/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencebasedmedicine.org/weara</span><span class="invisible">bles-and-wellness-populism-how-smart-watches-got-mahad/</span></a></p>
Nate Gaylinn<p>I've been using ProtonMail for a couple of weeks now, and the experience has been very positive. It's not as polished and featureful as GMail. Keyboard navigation is janky, and the Android app is pretty minimal (plaintext only, no formatting). I hope that will improve over time, but I accept it because it's clear where the developer's focus is: privacy and empowering the user. Everything is encrypted, no AI, and trackers get blocked by default. That's what I want.</p><p>My favorite features are addresses and aliases. The cheapest paid account comes with 10 of each. Multiple addresses help separate the facets of my life, and make it harder to track my identity across services. Aliases are throw-away email accounts I can generate on the fly, for one-time purchases and services with no reason to track me. These are incredibly useful. Just, be aware that you get a limited number of them, and you can't simply "undo" making a new address, so pick your names carefully.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/protonmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protonmail</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>degoogle</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a></p>
trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:<p>The rage I felt today; when an app for helping you with your meditation routine proffered up a fucking <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/chatbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatbot</span></a>. I did loose my shit. <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
txt.file<p>Die Werbung vor YouTube Videos sind ja eigentlich auch nur YouTube Videos, die nicht-spulbar abgespielt werden.</p><p>So betrug es sich gerade, dass ich eine automagisch übersetzte <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Lidl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lidl</span></a> Werbung bekam. Vollständig mit monotoner Stimme. Die Schrift im Video war auf deutsch, aber das Audio auf monoton englisch.<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a></p>
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