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 (DIR) Post #ARuT0IXyxt12pSl2P2 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
       2023-01-22T18:12:26Z
       
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       > I feel like there are now three constant processes in our world:> 1) #Carcinisation - everything evolves to become a crab> 2) #Financialization - eventually all business eventually turn into finance firms.> 3) #Enshitification - all producers eventually strip-mine their reputations.-srboisvert on #Metafilter https://www.metafilter.com/198011/Enshittification#8352515
       
 (DIR) Post #ARuT0K29RCk5RJse48 by angusm@mastodon.social
       2023-01-22T18:22:49Z
       
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       @pluralistic Logically, the entire world will ultimately be owned by terrible private equity firms that are also enormous crabs.It's not QUITE the dystopian future I imagined -- I hadn't got to the crab bit yet -- but there's no arguing with the science. This is how it will be.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARuT0LUtznKnymL7WC by steve@discuss.systems
       2023-01-22T18:35:58Z
       
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       @angusm @pluralistic so in the physical world, fungi prevent the literal enshittification of everything. Where are the fungi of techno-finance?
       
 (DIR) Post #ARuusUTTX6sSDkiOFU by TrismegistusMx@unbound.social
       2023-01-22T18:34:12Z
       
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       @angusm @pluralistic I asked AI what that might look like.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARuusUvTqzHLcbokts by angusm@mastodon.social
       2023-01-22T18:59:28Z
       
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       @TrismegistusMx @pluralistic
       
 (DIR) Post #ARuusVPG4H696xkXJY by Godefroy_B@pouet.chapril.org
       2023-01-22T20:19:16Z
       
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       @angusm @TrismegistusMx @pluralistic Nice! Reminds me of the Government Flying Building from Moebius's L'Incal comic book, which very much foresaw this kind of social endgame...
       
 (DIR) Post #ARuusVn0dy64IcrVKq by karlauerbach@sfba.social
       2023-01-22T23:42:11Z
       
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       @Godefroy_B @angusm @TrismegistusMx @pluralistic - This was presaged by Swift's Laputa, a flying country ... well worth reading.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa
       
 (DIR) Post #ARuusW7vOCpLLUeCw4 by TrismegistusMx@unbound.social
       2023-01-22T23:49:08Z
       
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       @karlauerbach @Godefroy_B @angusm @pluralistic Which in turn reminds me of Cities in Flight (1950-1962).The series features entire cities that are able to fly through space using an anti-gravity device, the spindizzy. The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.One fun feature is that the spindizzy relies on vacuum tubes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight