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I wonder if this place will be open tonight 💀

#alcohol #texas #DWI #trashy

If you think your office software is bad, you should try live video production tools. Dumpster.

Potentially related: I'm running the church livestream this morning and the tech inspires atheism.

Tonight I went to see friend Gregg Prickett play with Jonathan F. Horne. I didn't know of Jonathan before, and this is quite the rabbit hole:

theyoungmothers.com/#band-section

#music #local

"Slack’s arc, starting out as a darling, then getting bought by a large corporation, losing against an inferior competitor, and finally morphing into an example of product design gone wrong, is simply a textbook example of what happens to our software over time and under the influence of large piles of cash."

daniel.industries/2023/12/30/salesforce-slack-quintessential-enshittification/

Some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets AAAAAHHHHHrrrrrgh....

ISO a good, not expensive non-smart-watch. Do any of you use those anymore?

I see we're all back on the Internet today.

TIL enshittification has its own Wikipedia page (since June?)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

In the most shitty example of enshittification from the shittiest platform: if you share a Mastodon URL in an Instagram message, Instagram turns it into an internal link to a (likely non-existent) Instagram account. Despite the fact that it starts with HTTP.

I'm still baffled by the fact that I cannot buy a book from my phone except from the company that owns the device's operating system. This seems like the definition of monopolistic practices that legislation was designed to prevent. Legislation that has been used to prevent similar issues with other OS's. But for some reason we're all like, "Aww...ok (shrug)"