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— REVISED DEFINITIONS OF THE VERB “TO GOOGLE” – “To receive results as ten-second videos that present a sponsored product as the only possible answer to your question.” — Become “the World’s Worst Cleric” in a medieval game inspired by Disco Elysium. — A new website seeking to define the term “liberal”. It’s common media…
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And I don’t just mean that nobody uses it anymore. Like, I knew everyone under 50 had moved on, but I didn’t realize the extent of the slop conveyor belt that’s replaced us. — Read on pilk.website/3/facebook-is-absolutely-cooked
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Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders. More here. I maintain…
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Stranger Things was a show people loved because of the vibe. Now, Stranger Things is a show people watch because they remember loving that season one vibe, and they figure they might as well finish the rest of it. — Read on www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/scifi/stranger-things-vibe.html