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I know it's no longer a novel observation how the entire internet is enshittified now but it's still shocking that so many of the things we depend on had such a sudden and marked decline in quality.

Google results are mostly ads. Facebook is 90% ads, 10% domestic terrorists. Twitter is... well, not Twitter and it's only good for Nazis to yell at each other in the hopes they make .0004 cents per tweet. Instagram is ads. TikTok is misinformation central. YouTube serves forty-seven ads per second of videos watched.

Every news article is behind a paywall, and some of them are just AI-text garbled from someone else's much better article, also behind a paywall.

AI art has made it impossible to find images you want. It's also exploded the use and potential use of misinformation. Your data is now being fed to generative AIs to make cheap slop that only makes information harder to find and source.

Everyone wants you using their app instead of a web browser so that you aren't allowed to block the 3,487 ads per page that have to load.

Amazon is full of fake or low-quality dupes of the things you actually want to buy. Netflix and other streaming services are raising prices, cutting available shows, and erasing the existence of shows in order to avoid paying writers. Art hosting sites such as DeviantArt allow your work to be scraped for NFTs and generative AI without your consent or any form of compensation. Spotify has demonetized over 80% of their tracks and pays the rest astoudingly low, worse than the other streaming services which also underpay.

Everything is a subscription service which means not only are you paying for the same product in perpetuity but you never technically own any tool you use and your right to use it can be revoked at any time. Everything has to be a "smart" product so when the business inevitably folds and/or the servers shut down, your product no longer works. Hope it's not something you need!

Every company no longer accepts phone calls but routes you through a series of automated messages until finally dumping you off to an overworked and underpaid person who has no power to help you. Speaking of phones, you can't use them for calls. There are so many robocallers and scams that no one in their right mind picks up the phone anymore. Texts are going the same way. No one wants to dig through 100 scam messages to find the one from the person they actually want to talk to.

It's all just the inevitable end result of capitalism. It doesn't have to be this way. But there needs to be regulation, and fast, or the "Dead Internet Theory" will no longer be a fringe theory.

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like

can't format a work email? templates

don't know how to write a resume? templates

writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates

not sure how to format your citations in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net

summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffsnotes.com

recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com

there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI

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No thanks.

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Author/creator Tony Weaver, via the character Superalloy Blackluster from One Punch Man, discusses the importance of recognizing 1) when you've been antiblack in your creation, intentional or not, 2) the value of acknowledging the history, and 3) becoming a better creator and creating a better story by changing it instead of making excuses!

I searched for this video for twenty minutes after losing it; I really wanted you all to see this!

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THANK YOU. I don't want to see any idolizing of that creature

PSA that even though Trump’s followed through on the temporary ceasefire, let’s not forget that he is still a shitty person. He’s acted like the word Palestinian is a slur on live television. He’s many things but he’s also someone who doesn’t like wasting his money, he isn’t doing it out of the goodness of his heart but rather out of not wanting to waste funds to support Israel.

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I survived because the fuck it we ball inside me burned brighter than the it's so over around me

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Oh my heavens

tiktok: christinajulian_91

audio credit: anthony vincent

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just had a convo with my friend. she mentioned she doesnt like sake cause its sparkling.

“wait, sake is sparkling? what have i been drinking?” i said. because i also dont like sparkling stuff.

i look at the sake bottle ive been drinking from for fun events for the past year. its vinegar.

i’ve been drinking strawberry flavored vinegar.

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Um.

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don't go Nanamin don't go

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i'm not saying "reddit atheists'' weren't insanely racist and shitty or whatever but it's still insane to me how people talk about them like they're a group with any real actual power compared to like. any religious institution (good or bad) or even like. walmart. like it's especially weird living in a country where the evangelical christian right is trying to take away women's rights, bring back prayer's in school and ban any form of sexuality that isn't cis heterosexuality, to see people go "reddit atheism has gone too far" like has it? has atheism actually negatively affected your life in any meaningful way compared to like. the catholic church.

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Parents don’t get to decide if they were “really good” parents. I know that’s harsh and there’s a lot of mommy positivity circles online that just give each other a positive feedback loop but you don’t decide if you were a “really great parent” to your child. Your children tell you if you were a good parent or not. I see this a lot of no contact parent circles where the person who is no contact with their children is like “well I was a GREAT parent so it isn’t my fault and I didn’t do anything wrong”. Normal parents wonder if they’re doing a good job, ask themselves how they can improve, are open to feedback from children and other parents. If you are 100% sure you were a faultless fantastic selfless awesome fantastic parent totally beyond reproach and your shitty ungrateful willful delinquent children just don’t appreciate you enough, you are a terrible parent.

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