I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.
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I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.
Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.
@gleick I remember when Amazon and Chapters launched, and one of the founders (I'm forgetting which) talked openly about how the publishing industry and the system of book store returns ran more or less on an honour system and was ripe for exploitation.
They were never good guys.
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@gleick Imagine unironically calling an imperialist rag like WaPo one of history's "greatest" newspapers.
I mean, it was?
You could make the argument that ALL legacy news media was and is imperialist, but not the WaPo more specifically and individually.
"1973 Pulitzer Prizes:
Journalism - Public Service
The Washington Post
For its investigation of the Watergate case
Woodward and Bernstein" -
I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.
Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.
@gleick Their remembrance don't matter to them. They have gotten rid of any shame, ethics or scruples. Their wealth is poisoning our world. They destroy so much. #TaxBillionaires - their billions are toxic. Let's detox those ugly rich.
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I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.
Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.
@gleick from the beginning, Bezos seemed to me like a disgusting janitor who secretly watches young girls
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@gleick aye
‘Yes #Bezos,
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2017/02/21/to-billionaire-doomsday-preppers-your-wealth-wont-save-you #Yes - -To Billionaire Doomsday Preppers: Your Wealth Won’t Save You
#music #TaxTheRich #FeedThePoor #TillThereAreNoRichNoMore #ArtMusic #TenYearsAfterTenYearsAfter
As I always say, eventually we WILL find the air intakes
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I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.
Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.
@gleick yeah, who knew that was just the Enshittification playbook all along...
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys -
@woozle @gleick My incarnation of a ‘social network’ predated that ‘other one’ by a couple of years. My social life took all my time. And I could not afford to spend money on the infrastructure needed to make it grow.
Or maybe it’s that I did not enjoy the constant requests to ‘find out who posted something’. Moderating is a thankless job. So a big thank you to our moderators!
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I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.
Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.
@gleick is Bill Gates the only one of the tech billionares who seemingly aged quite well?
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I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.
Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.
@gleick he started his career in a hedge fund. This already primed to see humanity via the distorted lens of financial data and having an "edge". Surveillance capitalism did not happen by accident, it is the programme of frontrunning and exploiting society by monitoring all its activities the way financiers could only do within the confine of financial markets.
Bezos, the Googlers, Zuckerberg etc. are evil in the deepest sense: they conceived and scaled a modern era dehumanization for profit.
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