Hi, we’re a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.
We’re not a newspaper, we’re a content portal.
We’re not a taxi service, we’re a ride sharing app.
We’re not a pay TV service, we’re a streaming platform.
We’re not a department store, we’re an e-commerce marketplace.
We’re not a financial services firm, we’re crypto.
We’re not a space agency, we’re a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We’re not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we’re a large language model generative AI platform.
Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.
But we’re totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.
And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don’t apply to us.
Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections… They totally don’t apply to us.
Even copyright laws — as long as we’re talking about everyone else’s intellectual property.
We’re going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.
We’ve also raised several billion in VC funding, and we’ll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.
Once we have a near monopoly, we’ll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.
You won’t believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.
We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.
By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we’re doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.
By the way, don’t forget to check out our latest innovation. It’s the Uber of toothpaste!
@ajsadauskas @technology Aah yes, my favorite kind of (right-)libertarian: “no step on snek that steps on other snek”
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Yep #dotcons is what we have been calling this for 20 years. It’s a mess we have pushed over ourselves.
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In fairness, actual libertarians are pretty cool folks. It’s the big-L “Libertarians” (i.e. anarchists) who need to head for Mars.
I recently came across a comment analogizing libertarians to house cats in mentality, and I appreciate the spot-on comparison. 🧑🍳🤌🏼
LOL! It’s a good image.
In practice that’s a kind of “no true scotsman” argument though. Libertarians who actually believe in libertarian ideas are really pretty scarce (and I’d say they’re closer to anarchists in thought than most people, though potentially the cool kind of anarchist). Most self-described libertarians either want the government to regulate everyone but them, or they cluelessly take for granted the benefits of the way their world is utterly supported by non-market forces (the house cat analogy).
I don’t disagree with you. It’s hard to say what constitutes libertarian ideals, though, since the term has been co-opted by both communists and capitalists. In my mind, they’re people who advocate for the least possible government infringement on individual rights and liberties while acknowledging that there is a role for government in maintaining a functioning society. I believe this might be “night watchman” libertarianism.
Most self-described libertarians in the US today, at least those who are labeled by the media, are actually full-on anarchists and laissez-faire capitalists.
Libertarianism is a made up construct devoid of human behavior.
How so?
“It’s all on the blockchain now, so it’s not even us who’s doing it.
What are you gonna do, arrest me and these 7,000 graphics cards?”
Well, I’m not sure about arresting a bunch of graphics cards, but under American civil forfeiture laws, they could be sued, sort of. “United States vs. Approximately 7000 Computer Graphics Cards” has a certain ring to it.
You just gotta put very tiny handcuffs on the fan blades.
But they might overheat then! And if too many of them die in custody, the public might take notice and turn on the police.
Its weird how Uber isn’t already possible to replicate via blockchain akin to the way cryptocurrencies transact and perpetuate
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Nicely said
Clarity is good
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@virtualbri @ajsadauskas @technology Every disruption is an existing thing we figured out how to extract rents from
@ajsadauskas @technology “enshitify” is my new favorite word.
Here’s the source of that term. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Excellent article.
Investors: shut up and take my money!
We are not just a startup. We are a mix of dreams, passions, and a ton of passionate slogans.
When we aren’t drinking craft beer…
@ajsadauskas @technology
And we’ll change our TOS and user agreement to our advantage whenever we feel like it but won’t tell you what changed or why or how it’ll effect you. But legally we told you so f*ck off if you have a problem with that.The changes should just be highlighted like a fucking git commit.
Wow. This is a Mastodon account posting to Lemmy and we are getting cross platform engagement and it’s all working pretty seamlessly. This is the first time I’ve seen this kind of thing on Lemmy. The Mastodon users don’t get to see the upvotes though, right? The @ thing when they reply is kind of annoying but it seems like a fairly easy fix to hide those when browsing from Lemmy.
It’s pretty awesome, but generally Kbin does it even better in my experience. It’s designed to be able to interact with both. Looking forward to the API!
That is so, so cool.
so, sO, SO COOL
What is X? (aka: #deadbirdsite)
These services are interfaces for interacting with data that YOU create
