This is marketing spam about a theory that marketing spam is destroying our ability to communicate. This "article" and people like Cory Doctorow are quite literally the problem. Cory is now aggressively engaging in every business practice he has decried from the pulpit.

I never trusted this creep after he started to rebrand our old problem "spam" as "enshitification". We've been having discussions about spam for decades and we've generated some decent solutions, by rebranding our problem as something new Cory has actually made it substantially harder for us to solve this problem.

Spam is the problem. Cory isn't pitching a solution, he's just creating more marketing. How can we possibly take this grifter seriously?

This article is nonsense about nothing. The entire premise has no value. The "economy" that they're referring isn't a description of massive system based on consumer choices. The "economy" that AI is propping up is just a metric farm. None of the numbers mean anything.

If I walk into a store and buy a pizza for $20 then I've created $20 in revenue. That $20 counts towards the national GDP, makes sense, right? But if you use an app (company 1) to order a pizza from a restaurant (company 2) and pay with a digital payment system (company 3) that you're funding with your credit card (company 4) you've still only done $20 worth of business but now 4 different companies get to claim that $20 as revenue and now that single pizza pie might somehow get calculated as an $80 increase in GDP. When people describe tech "growing the economy"

GDP is a stat that means nothing. "Unemployment figures" mean almost nothing since they are curated in a way that excludes most unemployed people from the calculation.

For most people, "the economy" means grocery prices and housing costs and none of the stats we use to describe the economy actually have any meaningful way of reflecting. The "minigame" parts of the economy have completely replaced real business and America can no longer create productive business at a large scale specifically due to our choice to create metrics that correlate to value rather actually doing productive work.

I don't understand what your comment has to do with the fact that Facebook is lying to regulators about the number of users they have on their platform. 3 billion PEOPLE are not using their platform on a regular basis. Accounts are not people and because of the complete lack of user-privacy we all KNOW that they know which accounts are sock puppets. They are deliberately misleading the entire world something that everyone in the world knows: 90% of instagram accounts are fake and would have been deleted if they actually moderated their platform.

Competitive markets are a myth.

I'm not suggesting that we bust anything up or roll back any mergers. Their corporate charters simply need to be revoked and the board members need to be bared from the industry. Breaking up a company means creating two companies that are both under the control of the same group of people who created the original scam. They don't re-staff the company when they split it up so nothing ever changes.

There are no recent examples of any any markets actually getting better for consumers after being broken up. Bell was broken up. Shattered into a series of company that continued to collude against consumers and they have all been re-consolidated under John Malone.

You're not pitching a solution that can possibly solve our problem. Why don't think we should actually solve this?

You had to ignore most of my comment in order to find a sentence you could find a way to disagree with...and you didn't even nail that.

You're not actually solving the problem. You are simply creating another gameable system in front of the purchase. Your fake solution isn't even remotely related to the problem we actually have of widespread corruption and collusion within the market. Lotteries and all forms of gambling, are known as a source of and beacon for corruption and organized crime. Adding gambling to a corruption problem, can't possibly solve it. You're not even close to making a plausible point about the real world issue we're actually describing. And just for record there's a real easy solution: the corporate death penalty for both LiveNation and Ticketmaster.

LiveNation seems to be an ongoing criminal enterprise. They have been fined 24 times for over $160 million in penalties. They are bad actors and no longer deserve the privilege of running a corporation in our country. Time and time again they have been caught lying to their customers, stealing from their customers and killing their customers. Why isn't this your idea? Is your idea gambling instead of justice?

No. Full stop. This an awful idea. Not only are you describing a terrible user experience and teaching kids to gamble, this wouldn't actually solve the problem. The whole point is that the ticket resellers are using large numbers of obviously fake accounts with automated purchasing algorithms to manipulate and profit from the market. They can simply use all the exact same tactics to manipulate the lottery system that they're using in the current system.

I honestly can't believe that a human being made the comment you made organically. Everyone hates ticket lotteries. Forcing your fans to jump through hoops creates serious ill-will towards the artist.

Trying to turn every single aspect of our lives into a form of gambling is disgusting and I don't believe that you think it's a good idea to add gambling to the a market already known for corruption and organized crime.

The research described in the article doesn't actually support the headline. The US is creating a false economy. GPU's are a fake product that no one actually gets to use because everyone is using them run to chatbots that no one wants. Eventually the energy market realized that they can play along and make more money.

So now we have a massive chunk of the US economy being based around products we can't buy being used to generate services no one is actually paying for. It's all false scarcity. None of this shit is real.

The guy at the top of the LiveNation is a man named John Malone. He is the most powerful man in America and he's Catholic. The myth of "jewish controlled media" hasn't been culturally relevant for decades. John Malone is US's largest private land owner with 2.1 million acres and he holds are has recently held a controlling stake in the following media companies: LiveNation/Ticketmaster, iHeartRadio/ClearChannel, SiriusXM, Pandora, The Atlanta Braves, Formula 1 Racing and Charter Communications (the countries largest cable and internet provider). John Malone, a far-right Catholic and Trump donor, is quite literally controlling what most American's see on their screens.

Your race-baiting and rightwing propaganda couldn't be less relevant to the conversation we're having about media consolidation. Your comment is off topic, aggressive, hateful and just really, really stupid. Thanks for showing everyone know just how ignorant and irrelevant your worldview really is.

We're talking about a cartel.

Cartel - A cartel is an association of independent firms or nations that collude to restrict competition and control prices for a product or service.

All of these resale businesses are clearly part of Ticketmaster's business model. They are beholden to them and exist for their benefit. They run conventions where they all get together and describe their collusion against the customer (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestar.com%2Fnews%2Finvestigations%2Fwe-went-undercover-as-ticket-scalpers-and-ticketmaster-offered-to-help-us-do-business%2Farticle_475cbd40-6c6b-555f-83a3-7d225694669d.html).

I sincerely believe that the word "cartel" has been so heavily associated with the beheadings and airline bombings of transnational drug operators so we'd stop associating it with the market manipulating scumbags in our economy. America has a Cartel problem.

The US seems to the worlds largest extortion industry and spyware is an incredibly profitable tool for that kind of business. Jeff Bezos laid it all for us when he took out a full page ad accusing Mohammed Bin Salman of hacking his phone and the Dave Pecker/AMI using their access to his data in an extortion attempt.

Since this event there seem to be more shady tabloids weaponing more and more hacked cell phone data. All of these outlets seem to have deliberately designed themselves to be some monetized form of "useful idiot" for extortionists. The business model exposed by Bezos is clearly more widespread now than it was when he first told the story. Rupert Murdoch, a man who currently dominates the US journalism and broadcasting industries, was caught running one outlet that seemed to have a well-documented 20 year history of hacking cell phones. When you realize how ingrained into our culture these kinds of extortion rackets have become, it makes perfect sense that we're the ones spending the most on this kind of spyware.

America runs on extortion and spyware is it's greatest tool.

Oh you're confused. You think I'm trying to solve a cell phone problem. Staffing isn't the solution the cell phone problem, it's the solution the education. We can solve all of the education systems problems through greater staffing. All of it.

There's a reason why the single most important metric when choose schools is the student to the teacher ratio. We already know how to improve public education and increase the number of positive outcomes. A magnetic pouch isn't even on the table. It can't possibly solve anything. It can't solve the cell phone problem. It can't solve the staffing problem. It can't solve the monopoly over text books. It can't solve the recurrence of procurement fraud, But increased staffing can solve every single one of those problems. Because duh.

The only thing that I'll suggest is the only thing that any study has argued for at any level that matters; MORE FUCKING STAFFING. More people. People solve problems and the more of us aimed a problem, the smaller that problem becomes. That's the reality. We know this. Creating a one-size-fits-all solution that fits no one is perfect for a procurement scam but this shit is garbage for an education department product. Obvious scamola. Classic Albany-ham scam if ya ask me...but no one ever does anymore...

Dave Chappelle is stealing from public schools. 2.5 million students. $25 each. That's almost $62 million in public funds being diverted from schools to a product that doesn't work and has no educational value.

This is pure blackhat villainy.

BTW I work in entertainment and these things literally don't work. Anyone who cares enough will simply buy a secondary device and offer that up to the Yondr'er. And beyond that, they lose strength over time and can simply be cut open with a scissor or pulled apart. This is a product that doesn't solve the problem it's aimed at. This is a massive grift and blatant theft of public funds. FUCKING YUCK.

Wired is AI Slop. Over on Reddit they have a chatbot spamming their articles on every sub and posting comments. It's all slop. Of course they can't get banned because Wired and Reddit both have the same parent company, Conde Naste.

That being said...feel free to take a moment to head to Reddit and see what Wired is posting. If you believe it's a disruptive use of AI, which I'm sure it will be, maybe you'll feel like taking the time to report it.

The internet is an environment and spam is pollution. Let's fight some polluters.