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  • I hear ya, but various cities are re-thinking this to help revitalize their downtowns. For example, streets can be made pedestrian-only during the summer to create outdoor dining or event spaces then returned to car-focused during the winter. Businesses love this because it turns out if you have a lot of people just wandering around, more people come into your business. So next time the roads need major repairs, they are redesigned to be pedestrian-focused in summer and car-focused in winter.












  • Because then the manager might directly order you to wait. So then if you leave you’re directly disobeying an order.

    But if you just sign off and they call you on it, you can say you were SO ENERGIZED to meet this quarter’s deadlines that you just couldn’t stop yourself from getting back to work on the project! Then you can say “yeah, it’s my biggest flaw, I’m so excited about my work that sometimes I don’t spend enough time in meetings.” Bonus: that way you never get promoted to management.





  • copy/paste/edit:

    Enshittification refers not just to making things crappier, but to a process in which different people benefit. iirc:

    1. first the customer gets a lot of value and the platform loses money (bc the service is building a customer base)
    2. then the vendors get a lot of value bc the platform privileges them (this is most obvious with amazon - maybe less on social media platforms but maybe that’d be third parties that work on that plaform?)
    3. then the shareholders get a lot of value bc the platform squeezes every single possible penny out of the customer and the vendors.

    Most major social media platforms are very far into the enshittification process, so yes they do not provide a very “social” environment to the customer. They control the feed so you can’t just follow your friends, they force you to watch ads, they have ever-strict requirements to participate (one or more of: you can’t just observe you have to create an account, you can’t use VPNs, you must enter an email address, you must enter a phone number, you must enter a credit card, …) etc.

    The solution is either:

    • look for a platform that is early in the enshittification cycle (like those who went from Twitter to Bluesky) or
    • find a platform whose goal is to resist enshittification (like those who went from Twitter to Mastodon.)