#enshittification

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Welllllll this isn't great.

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website

"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website

Pluralistic: Understaffing as a form of enshittification (23 Mar 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/22/nobodys-home/ by @pluralistic

FTA: "Businesses don't hire enough workers because that makes them more profitable. It's not because 'no one wants to work anymore' (though doubtless repeating that fairy tale helps shift the blame for long lines and poor service from real, greedy bosses to imaginary, greedy workers)."

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/116275772384259836

No, seriously - I can't possibly overstate the value in my life that has come from the internet or how it has enriched me.

Like Ed Zitron & @pluralistic have both written about at various times, I'm not mad at technology - I'm fucking furious at the fuckfaces who deliberately ruined it, just so they could squat their ignoble asses upon a mountain of riches like the shittiest, saddest little saggy dragons imaginable.

@pluralistic 's essay today is a compendium of CorporateSpeak, complete with examples of self-serving nonsense and redolent of bulshytt.

Decontent the ideators!

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/19/jargon-watch/#corporate-bullshit-receptivity-scale

Lost* my new copy of @pluralistic 's on the bus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

I hope someone on the to bus services enjoys reading it! 😂

So, I have to watch one of his great talks again instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4

* I'l absolutely remember this as an act of deliberate subversion... 😂

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116245164337719643

Ahh, good thing I saw that he was moving over from Twitter. We're still doing this thing in Seattle in July

Things are falling apart over there, too. We may have to consider migrating as some point as well. 😬

https://www.meetup.com/tezos-seattle/events/313542493/?eventOrigin=your_events

I review @pluralistic 's Enshittification. Short form, not surprising on the surface, much more surprising in the depths of Enshittification. Must-read, must-loan.

https://www.stevensavage.com/blog/2026/03/book-review-enshittification-by-cory-doctorow.html