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You know what would be great? If we flipped the narrative that the Left isn’t patriotic.

You don’t become enraged about something you don’t care about.

I’m pretty sick of the Right having a language monopoly on “love for America.”
May 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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The result of most software being outright exploitative is that every single experience is trying to make us do stuff to grow engagement metrics and revenue. It's everywhere, harming and manipulating people in everything from dating to job-seeking.
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quote: It's digital tinnitus. It's the pop-up from a shopping app that you downloaded to make one purchase, or the deceptive notification from Instagram that you have "new views" that doesn't actually lead anywhere. It is the autoplaying video advertisement on your film review website. It is the repeated request for you to log back into a newspaper website that you logged into yesterday because everyone must pay and nothing must get through. It is the hundredth Black Friday sale you got from a company that you swear you unsubscribed from eight times, and perhaps even did, but there's no real way to keep track. It's the third time this year you've had to make a new password because another data breach happened and the company didn't bother to encrypt it. All of these annoying little examples are inherently hostile toward the user, and they're a direct result of a tech industry oriented around growth driven by the pernicious and aggressive poison of growth-focused software. The Rot Economy has changed the incentives of everything you see and do on the computer — the websites you read that inexplicably recommend laptops that are actively_painful to use because of the affiliate revenue they drive to the website (with this intent driven by management rather than the writers themselves), Instagram swapping the location of your notification and message buttons, discounts on stores that require both your email and phone number, social networks that put things in the way of you trying to find the people and things you actually log on to see — all ways in which software is used to extract from, trick you mislead and control you. Note, when I say "control" I don't mean that these companies have the ability to subconsciously manipulate you and your desires, so much as they have spent decades finding new ways to gaslight and bully you into doing things they'd like. Everybody knows that Instagram sucks, and it sucks because there's things that you actually want to do on Instagram that Meta has hidden behind hundreds of little user interface changes optimized to increase your time on the app and thus the amount of money you make them.
February 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM