Truly, a politics of #scamculture.
Lord. The Amway to Insurance to MAGA Bullshit pipeline is STRONG
Because another thing about that family friend? He was an Amway guy who flipped that into being an insurance guy and eventually a guy who golfs.
A lot of these signifiers feel of a type like his did.
Anyway. The old folks used to say that the lord looks out for babies and fools.
A lot of these signifiers feel of a type like his did.
Anyway. The old folks used to say that the lord looks out for babies and fools.
September 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Truly, a politics of #scamculture.
This is a wild story. #ScamCulture
And also, who knew that Scotland *genuinely* had a burgeoning tea industry?
And also, who knew that Scotland *genuinely* had a burgeoning tea industry?
📰 The Swindle That Left Tea With a Bitter Taste 🧵
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How did a fake Scottish tea plantation fool the finest hotels?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/11)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How did a fake Scottish tea plantation fool the finest hotels?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/11)
Fraudster made £550,000 selling fake 'Scottish-grown tea'
Thomas Robinson imported leaf tea from abroad, then repackaged it and claimed it was grown in Perthshire.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is a wild story. #ScamCulture
And also, who knew that Scotland *genuinely* had a burgeoning tea industry?
And also, who knew that Scotland *genuinely* had a burgeoning tea industry?
Mix #scamCulture with the efficiency of #openSource, and you get #surveillanceCapitalism and an economy-wide collapse in trust.
While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.”
rjionline.org/news/the-tra...
While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.”
rjionline.org/news/the-tra...
The traffic and revenue crisis for news is a symptom of Big Tech’s economy-wide trust collapse
The news business is a key part of the solution.
rjionline.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Mix #scamCulture with the efficiency of #openSource, and you get #surveillanceCapitalism and an economy-wide collapse in trust.
While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.”
rjionline.org/news/the-tra...
While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.”
rjionline.org/news/the-tra...
I’m not an AI hater, I’ve been using it for years and even run my own local LLMs. It’s great for a lot of things. But it’s increasingly being used by scammers and for sketchy stuff. Same thing happened with Blockchain, and that didn’t end well.
#AI #LLM #TechEthics #ScamCulture #Blockchain #LocalLLM
#AI #LLM #TechEthics #ScamCulture #Blockchain #LocalLLM
March 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I’m not an AI hater, I’ve been using it for years and even run my own local LLMs. It’s great for a lot of things. But it’s increasingly being used by scammers and for sketchy stuff. Same thing happened with Blockchain, and that didn’t end well.
#AI #LLM #TechEthics #ScamCulture #Blockchain #LocalLLM
#AI #LLM #TechEthics #ScamCulture #Blockchain #LocalLLM
This may get me kicked out of #linux fan club, but what if it's not a coincidence that some of the biggest Linux-using companies are also some of the biggest #scamculture/#enshittification companies? […]
Original post on federate.social
federate.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This may get me kicked out of #linux fan club, but what if it's not a coincidence that some of the biggest Linux-using companies are also some of the biggest #scamculture/#enshittification companies? […]
In other news, #scamculture is everywhere. Some good recent links to scams enabled by Big Tech...
https://blog.zgp.org/mlp-2025-09-05/
https://blog.zgp.org/mlp-2025-09-05/
Links for 5 September 2025: more news from the low-trust society
blog.zgp.org
September 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
In other news, #scamculture is everywhere. Some good recent links to scams enabled by Big Tech...
https://blog.zgp.org/mlp-2025-09-05/
https://blog.zgp.org/mlp-2025-09-05/
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