Enshittification in action

A stark warning from insurance giant Allianz:

"We are fast approaching warming levels where insurers won't be able to offer coverage for many climate risks. The premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. This is already happening"...

www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...

I occasionally pop back to the 'X' to marvel at its toxicity. No matter how many individuals I block without interaction, the algorithm keeps trying to make me feel outrage to satisfy its insatiable appetite for 'engagement'. Like trying to clean a septic tank with a teaspoon.

So much nicer here.

And this is why you should use "Block lists" with care. I wholeheartedly support the ability to curate your personal digital space by using the block and mute functions with abandon but when someone else is doing the curating you find yourself at the whim of someone else's judgement.

Public Service Announcement: If you want to follow users but not see links to sites like the DM you can mute the domain like this:

Settings->Moderation->Muted words and tags

Add dailymail.co.uk

I'm sure this is obvious to many, but so many people have joined recently I thought this might help

Eloquent response. Free speech absolutists can go scream into the void for all I care. Noone’s stopping them, but I don’t have to listen to them.

Manages to be both very funny and intensely depressing at the same time.

A must watch, obvs.

Why our education system needs a radical rethink in the age of AI and the internet and why Estonia might have the answers, by Michael Muthukrishna www.theguardian.com/books/2023/s...