CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@NicelyManifest @Steve ...and standing up to Cheetoh Mussolini

Spain and Mexico both strike me as democracies on the rise.

@NicelyManifest @Steve I would! But that flight in...especially the landing...freaks me out

That said, I suspect you have your share of things going on across the pond.

As flawed as it may seem, Spain is looking awfully tempting right now.

@NicelyManifest @Steve Not at all

I've spent so much time seeing cops enforcing "quality of life crimes" against poor people that the term seems to have been coopted. I can see the merit in trying to take it back.

@NicelyManifest @Steve Careful there, that term is used to police poor people more than it is to empower them

https://www.incite-national.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/toolkitrev-qualitylife.pdf

@deFractal @AnnieBuddy @pluralistic I suspect the difference may be regulation and resources then

@deFractal @AnnieBuddy @pluralistic If you think the public sector cannot be held accountable, wait until you meet the private sector monopolies we've created!

Red tape runs both directions

@NicelyManifest @Steve "We had to destroy the village in order to save Wall Street" has become a recurring meme.

@LordCaramac @pluralistic I've always thought that could work. But since technology is subordinate to the social and economic order, the bots SERVE the bosses and not the other way around.

@AnnieBuddy @pluralistic I work in the CRM industry and have watched this for years. When it comes to both chatbots and human-centric support centers, the quality of content and interactions are generally proportional to customers' ability to hold that company accountable for a bad experience.

Chatbots, like the processes we put into a human call center, can be tweaked to be relevant. But there is varying incentive...and competence...to do so.

@hub @pluralistic ...just like they took responsibility for the Global Financial Crisis, Enron, Worldcom, and any number of other things they caused?

No. They'll just deploy their PR flacks and stans to defend the move as somehow being good.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116532575439934052

Just as @pluralistic says: AI can’t do your job. But a sleazy AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with their shitty chatbot. And now those bad decisions are coming home to roost.

To which the court responded “Go home, Space Karen..,you’re drunk. Or in ketamine. Or just entitled.”

We need a hashtag!

#JEdgarBoozer

@pluralistic 's #enshittification in Backpacks...as usual, driven by private equity and the practice of "value engineering"

Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose

In 1986, a corporation that made women's lingerie bought every backpack brand you've ever trusted.

Worse on Purpose (www.worseonpurpose.com)

I wonder what odds prediction markets are taking on whether Bibi will die in office or face a jury.