The two options always seem to be:

• Option 1: Do the thing that expands the hyper-surveillance police state.

• Option 2: Do nothing and wait for the problem to get worse, until you’re compelling to accept Option 1.

Strapping a lead albatross to your space program is certainly a choice

I wish these were proper failures. They’re such an entrenched monopoly, a whole lot would have to change before a $3.2T company sees any kind of tangible penalties.

I’ve had more luck with Mint, thanks to its Windows-adjacent GUI and user-friendly on ramp. Still encountered a few issues (a couple of peripherals that didn’t support Linux drivers). But on the whole, it’s improved system performance over Win10 and synced smoothly with my workstation.

Windows will continue to degrade as Microsoft fires more of its professional staff and turns to “Vibes Coding” for increasingly delicate systems development. They’ll keep pushing out the OS as a vector for unwanted third-party advertisements. They’ll keep ratcheting user control of the OS away from the hardware owners. And they’ll keep injecting bloatware into their applications and services.

This isn’t the end of enshitification. It is a brief retreat and regrouping by a company that has invested tens of billions of dollars into the AI sunk cost.

If you can tell me how to un-fuck this nation in a way that will actually wake people up

People are already Woke Up. They’re still powerless.

Whatcha gonna do about them?

It’s not like I invite any of them over to smoke a joint. They exist and I can’t do much about it

A healthy chuck of CEOs have a humanities degree. It’s a common undergrad before moving to B and J-School.

Wasn’t that deemed illegal back in 2021 by the Chinese Courts?

And didn’t it kick off a wave of labor protests? The lie flat movement?

China is not communist in any form anymore

Just a planned economy governed by it’s native population with a public policy centered on general social welfare.

Nothing Communist about this at all, no sir.

And before someone says “but they execute billionaires”, they only execute billionaires that get in the way of other billionaires’ profits

That’s certainly the American spin. It’s actually double-plus capitalism when you prosecute plutocrats. Because a rules based national order promoted domestic growth. And that’s… bad?

Anyway, don’t ask about their social housing, public education, public health care, and public mass transit. That’s Not Real Communism!

Idk who “they” is. But from what I’ve seen, the administrators of Wikipedia tend to bias intake of new power-users and mods to people who have been with the project from inception (or, at least, the earlier the better). You get all sorts of justifications for why they’ve adopted this policy. But the bottom line is that Millennials and GenX make up the overwhelming majority of ranking users. And as they age out, they aren’t being replaced with people who were their age when they started using the platform.

This traditionalist base has done a lot to calcify how Wikipedia functions, even as variant communities have improved on the model.

The AI-summary shit is just the tip of the iceberg on the system’s problems. The website is filling up with dead links. The definition of a “trusted news source” is getting outrun by private sector buyouts of old media and unemployed journalists spinning up new media. A big chunk of the organizations’ resources have to deal with fending off legal threats and attacks on system vulnerabilities. The centralized hosting model is expensive to maintain. The rush to be “first to post” creates unnecessary drama among power users in popular niche fields. International language support is… meh (one area where AI would be a huge benefit, as LLMs really shine in this field).

This goes a lot farther than “they want to hurt my Wiki”. And if you bothered to read the whole article, you might see more of why. The Wiki Foundation has dragged its heels on automation and clustered around a handful of power-mods in a way that’s undermined its Open Editor model. Fighting over Simple Article Summaries is just the latest fumble by the leadership, a sizable commitment of resources that’s tossed in the dump almost as soon as its off the press.

Doing a backflip: enthusiastic applause

Doing a backflip on ice skates: eye-rolls, bored face, getting up to leave

The guy in the comments calling you a tankie

Can’t wait until they double down and make this some kind of monthly service DLC.

Sony locking the technology that removes the fun part of a game from the game behind the 1,000 year IP door is an accidental blessing.

despite

Misspelled “Because”

We’ve formed a committee to look into it