Holy #surveillance hell, Batman.

Let me get this straight:

First, they feed your video, which is already stored in their cloud, into an #AI transformer to write descriptions.

Then they feed your descriptions into a pattern learning system (ML, maybe?) to figure out your patterns and habits.

All of this is stored in the cloud. So they not only have your video, but a narrative about your habits, ready to be exfiltrated, monetized, and shared with law enforcement.

#ai #enshittification#RingCamera

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/amazons_ring_ai_video_description/

A world free of Big Tech. Can you imagine? 💭

Join us for a special event for the 20th anniversary of Open Rights Group 🎂

As well as being a renowned author, activist and journalist, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic was a founding member of ORG! He'll be talking to fellow writer and activist Maria Farrell about #SurveillanceCapitalism, the #enshittification of digital platforms and fighting #BigTech monopolies.

🗓️ 16 July, 6pm BST
💻 Zoom

Sign up ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/

#ORG20 #digitalrights

Anything written before 2023 will have less #enshittification. However, nothing beats the '80s. Probably the peak of #software development, everything was tight and clean. Yeah it might not have a lot of bells and whistles, but it works every time. I turn it on, there's no #AI, there's no asking me to pay a #subscription, there's no internet connection required, no goddamn #advertisements. I open a word processor and I fucking type.

The time has come for me to propose that #Gentoo leaves #GitHub.

#Microsoft has been purveying #enshittification of this platform for years now. Pushing #Copilot everywhere was the last straw.

https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/1c0b6be5cb24d51deecaed2ccf99593d0fac185e.camel@gentoo.org/T/#t

#AI#LLM

Pourquoi les plateformes deviennent toutes "merdiques" ? - Blast le souffle de l'info

https://video.blast-info.fr/w/r9LWj7vUtQ1WmEyg3z9V7Y

avec du @pluralistic et du #graeber dedans

#enshittification #uberisation
#socialDumping

Rejoignez-nous, devenez sociétaire : https://www.blast-info.fr/devenir-societaire Netflix, Uber, Facebook, Amazon : les plateformes ont envahi notre quotidien et révolutionné nos modes de consommat...

Enshittification comes for open source:
Slack is kicking two large open source groups, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Kubernetes, off of their donated enterprise tier, giving them one week notice to migrate multiple years of data to a new platform before it's all deleted: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/16/cncf-slack-workspace-changes-coming-on-friday-june-20/

Instead of learning from this experience and not trusting the good will of profit-motivated closed source companies, it looks like both projects will be moving to ... Discord. Because "people know it." Will we never learn?

(Dropped Cory because he's probably getting tons of spam from this. Sorry!)

#enshittification

#enshittification ☝️

🌱 Grow commons. Want to help free #academia from corporate #enshittification?

Note the call for action in the previous post. Delightful #OpenScience is looking for dedicated gardeners (maintainers) who work with such tools themself and thus able to bring the necessary quality and rigour that is required for the #scientific process.

Boosts are appreciated.

Please open an issue if you can offer help:

https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-open-science

@bonfire @scifed

#science #academics #research

Cory Doctorow interviewed about enshittification by Jesse Mulligan on on RNZ;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018985178/feature-interview-how-meta-and-x-will-eat-themselves

#radio#RNZ#Afternoons #JesseMulligan#CoryDoctorow #enshittification

@pluralistic