The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: Big tech will start mistreating its programmers as much as its warehouse workers the minute it can get away with it.
Bad tech
2025-03-18
The Worldās Most Invasive Apps: I’m not particularly convinced by the methodology, but, even so, hardly a surprise Meta apps come out as particularly terrible for keeping your personal data private.
2025-03-16: š Want to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. …exposes both the personal and ā¦
2025-02-26: Deezer receives 10k AI-generated music tracks per day, artists aren't happy
2025-02-26
2025-02-24: More Musk censorship - his Grok AI was was programmed to explicitly ignore all evidence that he or Trump spread disinformation
2025-02-17: Apparently former free-speech-absolutist (lol), encrypted-messenger-app-Signal recommending Elon ā¦
2025-02-16
Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and Chinaās censorship requests: Amongst those from other regimes, autocratic and otherwise.
2025-02-15
Never Forgive Them: A long and eviscerating read from Ed Zitron on how and why the tech industry is making our lives substantially worse than they need to be - basically their incentives are no longer aligned with us, their users.
2025-02-11
More Than 800K Have Lost $2B on Trumpās Meme Coin: He, of course, profited vociferously.
2025-02-11: The incessant infusion of relentless advertising continues. Imagine coming to a stop in your prize ā¦
2025-02-09: Statista visualises some data from Duetti’s pretty interesting 2024 Music Economics Report. ā¦
2025-02-06: Zuckerberg hands over another $25 million to Trump
2025-02-02
DeepSeek Fails Researchers' Safety Tests: The hot new AI bot appears to be up for discussing pretty much anything, irrespective of harm.
āI lost 10 years of my lifeā: how UK betting giantās unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked: A particularly dark example of the perils of letting companies surveil, extract and exploit the trail of data modern life requires we generate.
2025-02-01: šŗ Watched Grieving Mother: AI was the Stranger in my Home.
2025-01-26: Spotify joins the inauspicious ranks of companies that funded Trump's inauguration
2025-01-26
2025-01-25
Bjƶrk Says Spotify Is “The Worst Thing That Has Happened To Musicians”: ‘The streaming culture has changed an entire society and an entire generation of artists.’
2025-01-24: Trumpian legislation via LLMs (we should be so lucky)
2025-01-24
Pope warns Davos summit that AI could worsen ācrisis of truthā: He was the subject of one of the more famous early deepfakes to be fair.
2025-01-23
A rotten Apple: Tim Cookās betrayal of LGBTQ+ rights: Never love a corporation part 9999.
The Emptiness Of Zuckās Promise To Move āBiasedā Trust & Safety From California To Texas: Zuckerberg’s ridiculous ‘we’ll move the remnants of our trust and safety team to Texas because that’ll make them magically less biased’ stunt is even sillier when it turns out many of them already live there.
2025-01-20
Zuckerbergās Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP Narratives: ‘Zuckerberg’s claim that he would stand up to government pressure on moderation is undermined by the fact that he’s revealing this literally while caving to government pressure on moderation.’
2025-01-19: Trump's inauguration fund has raised an unconscionable amount of money from people who should know better