While it will probably never catch on because I have neither the talent nor the stomach for relentless self-promotion that Cory Doctorow does, I feel like we have gone beyond enshittification and are now in a phase of asshole-ification of every product and platform.
I saved this beauty off the free pile in front of a house up the block yesterday. It’s an actual flip clock—possibly exactly the same model we had in the kitchen when I was a kid—and it actually works.
This stupid Cloudflare "Confirm you are human" checkbox bullshit is quickly becoming as instant a NOPE to your website for me as the "Subscribe to our newsletter" and "Disable your adblocker" popovers. I don't have to prove I'm human, motherfucker. You need to prove you have something worth reading.
The thing is, have you ever thought about how The Void feels about all the screaming? It can't be great. Maybe just a normal conversation… ask how The Void is doing, how it's day has been.
To be clear, I do not actually think this is the case.
It's weird how the music that my parents liked was terrible, but the music my kids like is also terrible.
I guess I was just lucky enough to be born and come of age at exactly the right point in history when all of the groundbreaking and objectively good music was being made.