*hold onto tech (my current phone keyboard busy showing off how much of an improvement it is over its predecessor, I see)

Hell, a major part of the reason people home onto text is because newer models are, very reliably at this point, worse. Shopping for a few device has become an exercise in determining which one will be easiest to modify into a useable version.

NO WAGE ! Only spend 😡

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

Shocked to find gambling going on in this establishment, & c.

And of course, the final epitaph: [Zap Turned Off]

injecting code into other people’s software in such a way that it seems native, famously the behavior of only the most trusted tech companies

I think I get what you're going for, here, but the history of the arts in capitalism has been nothing but artists' skilled work not being classed as labor; and this does not protect against exploitation, but rather facilitates it.