If you think AI won't replace human workers, leaving them unemployed, or that companies, then I ask you to consider the annoying automated answering machines. What do you think happened to all those positions & the people laid off once companies installed those machines? Enshittification indeed.
August 2, 2026 at 2:51 PM
If you think AI won't replace human workers, leaving them unemployed, or that companies, then I ask you to consider the annoying automated answering machines. What do you think happened to all those positions & the people laid off once companies installed those machines? Enshittification indeed.
I assumed everyone knew this was predicted to occur when they sacked 50% of the NOAA staff and started canceling weather balloons that collect data last year; but if not. 👇
Thomas Paine wrote: “If we omit it now, some [dictator] may hereafter arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and the discontented, and by assuming to themselves the powers of government, may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge.”
July 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Thomas Paine wrote: “If we omit it now, some [dictator] may hereafter arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and the discontented, and by assuming to themselves the powers of government, may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge.”