Enshittification has no bottom. It keeps delving new depths of shit its users will put up with until they just stop using it.

When they discovered that electricity can make line go up, all their climate promises meant exactly jack and shit.

Don't Be Evil (unless it is profitable).

Just wait until meme mill gets to them. The edits are going to be great.

No.

The front page is almost entirely stories about AI. I get it. AI makes line go up. Stories about AI makes line go up.

But, other things happen in IT and geek culture these days that don't involve line-goes-up at all.

Now all you need to do is pay people below living wage to mine it and contaminate the local landscape with the tailings. Then you can make the big bucks!

Nah, there is more fun stuff.

Making accounts that are just posting torrent links to Disney movies. Watch how fast they have to start censoring their service.

Those bloody cunts. Let's send them Rupert Murdoch as punishment! After all, it worked on the Yanks.

They make great hardware... to install OpenWRT on.

Yup. All commercial companies getting payouts from the government should have their contracts nulled out and be forced to justify why they are being paid each and every penny.

US companies when the government regulates their industry: "You should not interfere with the free market!"

US companies when there is competition from another country: "You have to interfere with the free market!"

I love rewriting my applications every 2-3 years because an API is no longer bussin and needs to have another buzzword iteration.

A subscription to allow for higher quality uploads would be an easy gotcha for some cash flow. Right now they crunch everything down to 2000x2000px JPG, and the art community on there is really noticing it.

We've all seen videos of these systems trying, and failing, to play chess. They just lose track of the game board and can't recover after that point, but happily hallucinate and are confident in their error.

Seems like that's all that's happening here.

My father, a bricklayer, had a great saying whenever something got fucked up: "Paint it red, call it a feature."

Offering bug bounties?