Also, being subsumed into a depersonalizing social media ecosystem that constantly emphasizes individualistic self-mythologization and vomitous, consumer-oriented lifestyle posting made me have the "everything is ashes. no hope. no hope" feeling.
April 20, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Also, being subsumed into a depersonalizing social media ecosystem that constantly emphasizes individualistic self-mythologization and vomitous, consumer-oriented lifestyle posting made me have the "everything is ashes. no hope. no hope" feeling.
Gender reveal parties are important to Americans because we want to know ahead of time what kind of product ecosystem their future consumer will require and a shopping experience tailored to it
August 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Gender reveal parties are important to Americans because we want to know ahead of time what kind of product ecosystem their future consumer will require and a shopping experience tailored to it
I'm seeing a lot more consumer-side complaints about Facebook? Just anecdotal of course but the interesting thing is I think creators are kind of the canary in the coal mine. Like, as you make artists life more miserable while advantage SEO dipshits, slowly but inevitably the ecosystem collapses.
January 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I'm seeing a lot more consumer-side complaints about Facebook? Just anecdotal of course but the interesting thing is I think creators are kind of the canary in the coal mine. Like, as you make artists life more miserable while advantage SEO dipshits, slowly but inevitably the ecosystem collapses.
In other news, former FCC boss Ajit Pai has been rewarded for years of anti-consumer fuckery by being put in charge of the U.S. wireless industry's biggest lobbying and policy organization
CTIA
CTIA represents the U.S. wireless communications industry and companies throughout the mobile ecosystem.
www.ctia.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In other news, former FCC boss Ajit Pai has been rewarded for years of anti-consumer fuckery by being put in charge of the U.S. wireless industry's biggest lobbying and policy organization
They refuse to think about their role in the political ecosystem. They refuse to think about how public opinion forms. They refuse to consider whether Americans have the capability of caring about anything other than consumer prices.
February 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
They refuse to think about their role in the political ecosystem. They refuse to think about how public opinion forms. They refuse to consider whether Americans have the capability of caring about anything other than consumer prices.
It is not true that indie studios will save the ailing games industry. That is a thing that is impossible on the basis of how both the economy and the game development ecosystem work.
What IS true is that you, the consumer, pivoting to seeking out & purchasing indie games can save indie STUDIOS.
What IS true is that you, the consumer, pivoting to seeking out & purchasing indie games can save indie STUDIOS.
September 12, 2026 at 9:04 AM
It is not true that indie studios will save the ailing games industry. That is a thing that is impossible on the basis of how both the economy and the game development ecosystem work.
What IS true is that you, the consumer, pivoting to seeking out & purchasing indie games can save indie STUDIOS.
What IS true is that you, the consumer, pivoting to seeking out & purchasing indie games can save indie STUDIOS.
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December 20, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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imagine being a freelance artist and hating furries, imagine despising a healthy art consumer ecosystem and being able to afford rent
September 22, 2024 at 6:22 AM
imagine being a freelance artist and hating furries, imagine despising a healthy art consumer ecosystem and being able to afford rent
Landscapers that lay astroturf profit from destroying your local ecosystem. Neither consumer or contractor pays the true cost of damages. Pavan Sukhdev calls this concept the "Economic Invisibility of Nature" and this is something that our Government need to start acknowledging.
January 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Landscapers that lay astroturf profit from destroying your local ecosystem. Neither consumer or contractor pays the true cost of damages. Pavan Sukhdev calls this concept the "Economic Invisibility of Nature" and this is something that our Government need to start acknowledging.
“These people knew they were buying into a more closed ecosystem” is an annoying argument, debatable, and presumes the consumer spends as much time on Reddit as them.
May 21, 2026 at 7:37 PM
“These people knew they were buying into a more closed ecosystem” is an annoying argument, debatable, and presumes the consumer spends as much time on Reddit as them.
in the coming years, everyone who said they enjoyed eurojank to be chic is about to be put to the ultimate poser test as the material conditions of central and eastern european consumer computing which facilitated that loosely defined gaming ecosystem are internationalised
March 29, 2026 at 4:26 AM
in the coming years, everyone who said they enjoyed eurojank to be chic is about to be put to the ultimate poser test as the material conditions of central and eastern european consumer computing which facilitated that loosely defined gaming ecosystem are internationalised
Impacts of deep-sea mining on microbial ecosystem services
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Impacts of deep‐sea mining on microbial ecosystem services
Interest in extracting mineral resources from the seafloor through deep-sea mining has accelerated in the past decade, driven by consumer demand for various metals like zinc, cobalt, and rare earth e....
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May 25, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Impacts of deep-sea mining on microbial ecosystem services
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It sort of mirrors Biden's situation: a legitimate commitment to unions, diversity, and consumer protection alienated highly educated, white, and wealthy members of the Democratic coalition. Except this time it's independent grifters on the edge of the conservative media ecosystem
July 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It sort of mirrors Biden's situation: a legitimate commitment to unions, diversity, and consumer protection alienated highly educated, white, and wealthy members of the Democratic coalition. Except this time it's independent grifters on the edge of the conservative media ecosystem
![How to Fix the Gaming Age Divide
- [ ] Games by veteran devs targeted at children instead of all ages (see Humongous Entertainment)
- [ ] New IP instead of something literally from when Mom and Dad were kids
- [ ] Berlin Airlift into the Roblox Ecosystem
- [ ] Restore Consumer Purchasing Power to 40 year highs.
- [ ] Make a Gameboy that costs 99USD through dark magic or other heresies](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i7fb2ebm5hrot3bnldi7wuqg/bafkreib7i7m2tu2wxpd6ns7yz5lsvy6f7gqnydpfeiaaltda2zc26szk7e)
Gosh, I wonder if the threat of antitrust action for anti-competitive & expanding ecosystem of right-to-repair laws is finally influencing the world’s most famous maker of tethered devices to be more consumer-friendly. Who can know? But this Post subscriber would read the heck out of that story.
Apple told The Washington Post it is easing a key restriction on iPhone repairs.
Starting this fall, owners of an iPhone 15 or newer will be able to get their broken devices fixed with used parts — including screens, batteries and cameras — without any change in functionality.
Starting this fall, owners of an iPhone 15 or newer will be able to get their broken devices fixed with used parts — including screens, batteries and cameras — without any change in functionality.
Apple will approve used parts in iPhone repairs, in long-awaited reversal
Starting this fall, you may be able to pay less for a fully functioning fix if you have an iPhone 15 or newer.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Gosh, I wonder if the threat of antitrust action for anti-competitive & expanding ecosystem of right-to-repair laws is finally influencing the world’s most famous maker of tethered devices to be more consumer-friendly. Who can know? But this Post subscriber would read the heck out of that story.
"“This is an extremely anti-consumer decision that has no legitimate justification and communicates a disdain for players in their ecosystem,” Michael Futter, founder of video game industry consultancy F-Squared, told CNBC."
www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/s...
www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/s...
Sony’s 'ironic' PlayStation disc decision upends gamer conventions and threatens a $7 billion resale market
In 2013, Sony tweaked Xbox by showing how easy it was to share a PlayStation disc. Now, gamers say Sony has become exactly what it mocked.
www.cnbc.com
July 22, 2026 at 4:43 PM
"“This is an extremely anti-consumer decision that has no legitimate justification and communicates a disdain for players in their ecosystem,” Michael Futter, founder of video game industry consultancy F-Squared, told CNBC."
www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/s...
www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/s...
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November 20, 2024 at 3:27 PM
2025 we are going all in with creating an ecosystem based on DIRECT TO CONSUMER practices 🤝
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“The entire consumer ecosystem is connected."
A January report by the Consumer Technology Association estimated that Trump's tariffs would increase (at the top end) the cost of laptops & tablets by 68%, smartphones by 37%, and video game consoles by 37%.
A January report by the Consumer Technology Association estimated that Trump's tariffs would increase (at the top end) the cost of laptops & tablets by 68%, smartphones by 37%, and video game consoles by 37%.
Trump’s Tariffs May Hit Gamers Especially Hard
With Nintendo delaying preorders for the Switch 2 console, industry experts warn of increased prices. But will this sway Trump’s supporters in the community?
newrepublic.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“The entire consumer ecosystem is connected."
A January report by the Consumer Technology Association estimated that Trump's tariffs would increase (at the top end) the cost of laptops & tablets by 68%, smartphones by 37%, and video game consoles by 37%.
A January report by the Consumer Technology Association estimated that Trump's tariffs would increase (at the top end) the cost of laptops & tablets by 68%, smartphones by 37%, and video game consoles by 37%.
Cinemo, the infotainment software provider for automotive applications, has announced an expansion of its open cloud ecosystem to power connected experiences also for the home and consumer electronics.
#consumerelectronics #homeentertainment #musicecosystem
#consumerelectronics #homeentertainment #musicecosystem
Cinemo Expands Automotive Media Ecosystem to Consumer Electronics and Home Applications
Cinemo, the infotainment software provider for automotive applications, has announced an expansion of its open cloud ecosystem to power connected experiences also for the home and consumer electronics...
audioxpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Cinemo, the infotainment software provider for automotive applications, has announced an expansion of its open cloud ecosystem to power connected experiences also for the home and consumer electronics.
#consumerelectronics #homeentertainment #musicecosystem
#consumerelectronics #homeentertainment #musicecosystem
Increasingly find the consumer surplus of streaming oddly depressing. I’m paying £5.99 a month to watch essentially, most of the greatest shows in the history of US TV, and thereby destroying the ecosystem that created that TV:
HBO Max pins hopes on Friends and Harry Potter to win UK streaming war
Warner Bros-owned brand’s late arrival to British TV prompts deals for viewers as battle for subscribers heats up
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Increasingly find the consumer surplus of streaming oddly depressing. I’m paying £5.99 a month to watch essentially, most of the greatest shows in the history of US TV, and thereby destroying the ecosystem that created that TV:
Can we just speedrun the thought experiment, and pretend that we're at the place where it happened, it all crashed, and we've decided to do worker's rights, consumer protection, a social safety net, and rebuild the ecosystem afterwards?
June 10, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Can we just speedrun the thought experiment, and pretend that we're at the place where it happened, it all crashed, and we've decided to do worker's rights, consumer protection, a social safety net, and rebuild the ecosystem afterwards?
The ire seems to be rooted in selling direct to consumer booster packs for a high demand product that could be driving engagement in the LGS ecosystem. And that this is a(n) (Overton) Window into the future.
August 27, 2026 at 3:44 PM
The ire seems to be rooted in selling direct to consumer booster packs for a high demand product that could be driving engagement in the LGS ecosystem. And that this is a(n) (Overton) Window into the future.
Over the years I’ve invested so much in the Xbox ecosystem that even if it was at a premium, I could see myself eventually picking up a handheld that is essentially a Xbox series S or X with a screen shoved onto it.
And as their target consumer, when I saw that wasn’t the case… I was out. Kinda sad
And as their target consumer, when I saw that wasn’t the case… I was out. Kinda sad
October 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Over the years I’ve invested so much in the Xbox ecosystem that even if it was at a premium, I could see myself eventually picking up a handheld that is essentially a Xbox series S or X with a screen shoved onto it.
And as their target consumer, when I saw that wasn’t the case… I was out. Kinda sad
And as their target consumer, when I saw that wasn’t the case… I was out. Kinda sad
Just as a major conservative goal has been to produce an alternative media ecosystem to combat what they see as being locked out of traditional media institutions, so, too, do they want to create now an ideologically-aligned suite of consumer products.
December 10, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Just as a major conservative goal has been to produce an alternative media ecosystem to combat what they see as being locked out of traditional media institutions, so, too, do they want to create now an ideologically-aligned suite of consumer products.
13. After generations of slow optimization, open-source tools like GNU/Linux are usable enough for the average consumer that they have a thriving ecosystem of casual programs including all games.
January 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
13. After generations of slow optimization, open-source tools like GNU/Linux are usable enough for the average consumer that they have a thriving ecosystem of casual programs including all games.