Depends on the name. Malnourished Wallet is probably an emo/grunge band. Ill Bills is thrash-punk. Skinny Pockets is an indie, alt-rock duo.
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Got any tips on researching these things? I'm always concerned that "buy-it-for-life" testimonials are only so trustworthy when the item was made years ago already, and the manufacturing process could have changed since.
The AI has denied ~~your cancer treatment claim.~~ you insurance based on your genetic history for cancer, thanks to buying your genome from [insert company that bought out 23andMe/Ancestry.com]
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Ah, good. I had "racist profiling ~~AI~~LLM" on my 2024 bingo card
About 50 years too late. I suppose increased damage could at least me mitigated.
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Which, as I've said (repeatedly), they don't. Nobody does. That's the problem with it.
So your point is that...people know what you mean when you shout the name of a very particular animal? That...doesn't really have any bearing on what I'm saying.
With "enshittification", what people mean is obvious - in the vast majority of uses I've seen, they just want to say "shit" but don't because it's not cool or something, idk. What the word means is not clear. That's my point. It's so rare that I see it used to mean what it's intended to that Doctorow might as well not even be credited, and he shares most of the blame for that.
Doctorow wrote a overwrought, psuedo-intillectual blog post to describe in detail what this word means, and then gave us...that. The end result didn't lead to a better understanding of how and why companies are abusing and draining their customer bases for every penny they can wring from them, or a way to call them out on it as they're ramping it up faster than ever before. No. He just gave the world another way to say "shit". Clearly that's worthy of "Word of the Year". 🙄
That definition, not "Things that are willingly made shittier." Things get shittier for an endless amount of reasons. The reason for the shittiness is very important to the meaning of the word here. That reason is also entirely unclear when just hearing the word on it's own. Ipso flipso, bad word.
I could guess what it meant before I even heard his definition of the word: Things that are willingly made shittier.
Right, and that's not what it means. Hence my statement that it's a bad word.
Lots of them, yes.
Such a pointless thing to be upset about. Turns out some people like funny/mildly interesting stories. How shocking.
Not every article ever written needs to be a Peabody contender. It's ok to read something frivolous sometimes.