@seachanger I think we backslid a lot in terms of intellectual capacity. For one, the ability to anticipate right wing tactics just isn't there. Second, our journey from Twitter days to now has taken us from narrating around terms like #toobigtofail, #oligarchy & #rashism to a more coarse old-left vocabulary focused on "capitalism" which is all over my fedi TL. Old Twitter consciousness recognized that capitalism was dead, so I'm at a loss as to why the fedi intelligentsia does not.
Threads federates, you don't subscribe to anyone on the instance. Happy now?
Threads federates, you blacklist the whole instance in your user blacklist. Now happy?
Threads federates, you subscribe to a few people whose writing you like. Happy?
Threads federates. Threads users realize, they can jump ship to another Instance and still talk with and to and about their friends. Threads loses users. Happy!
If I had the funding, I'd explicity start an eMail provider that blocks everything but #E2EE - encrypted [ PGP/MIME ] eMails and forces everyone to properly encrypt their shit.
Because I ran out of spoons and 10+ years after #Snowden and #PRISM there is no excuse to act like a Snitch!
#TheGrifters came out after a (not "the) #SavingsAndLoan (manufactured) crisis and used that indirectly in its depiction of greed and the "conned".
It's relevant in this world of #BernieMadoff, #crypto and #NFT's, #Enron, #StockMarkets, #TooBigToFail, all the other cons and con artists we know and acknowledge as such, and all those very many others that are still considered legitimate.
As history proves, the bigger the con, the more people believe and want to get taken...
#Enshittification is the process by which a #platform lures in and then captures end users (stage one), who serve as bait for business customers, who are also captured (stage two), whereupon the platform rug-pulls both groups and allocates all the value they generate and exchange to itself (stage three):
This is the Great Enshittening, a moment of universal, end-stage platform decay. As the platforms burn, calls to address the fires grow louder and harder for policymakers to resist. But not all solutions to platform decay are created equal. Some solutions will perversely enshrine the dominance of platforms, help make them both #TooBigToFail and #TooBigToJail.
Der #Republik-Artikel von @adfichter zu #Xplain zeigt auf, dass
1️⃣ die Behörden sich selbst immer tiefer in Abhängigkeiten zu Xplain navigiert hatten,
2️⃣ für diesen Lock-In keine Exit-Szenarien existieren und
3️⃣ Due Diligence vernachlässigt wurde (wieso?).
Übrigens: Ein IT-Sicherheitszertifikat wie #ISO27001 oder #SoC2 sagt nichts über die tatsächliche Sicherheit aus, nur dass man viel Text dazu geschrieben hat.
I usually write this blog 5-6 days/week, but every now and again, I take a break, and when I do, I get massive link backlogs of stuff I want to write about, but lack the time to address in depth. When that happens, I turn my Saturday edition into a #linkdump. Today, I present the sixth in the series - here's the other five:
My god, they sure hate#LinaKhan. This once-in-a-generation, groundbreaking, brilliant legal scholar and fighter for the public interest, the slayer of #Reaganomics, has attracted more vitriol, mockery, and dismissal than any of her predecessors in living memory.
She sure must be doing something right, huh?
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this to read or share, here's a link to pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Auditors are capitalism's lubricants, who keep the gears of finance capital smoothly a-whirl, allowing investors to move their money in and out of companies without having to go pore over their books and walk through their facilities. Without auditors, the gears of capitalism would grind themselves to dust:
Unfortunately for capitalism, auditing is irredeemably broken. The Big Four auditors (#PWC, #EY, #Deloitte and #KPMG) have merged to monopoly, becoming #TooBigToFail and #TooBigToJail. These four gigantic firms have spun up fantastically lucrative "consulting" divisions that advise companies on how to cheat on their audits and attain incredible (paper) gains.