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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone have the "resist fascism by making mistakes" copypasta? I can't find it because the internet sucks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you thinking of this?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw, that’s a way more mundane answer than I was hoping for, but I appreciate you explaining. (And I find myself doubting that it does much to AI scrapers, yes.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hang on, you have successfully thorn-baited me. Are you typing them manually or do you have a macro or something swapping them in? For what purpose are you doing this? Give me your villain monologue.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a big believer in regulation, and some governments right now are in a position where they can be pressured to take anti-monopoly action against Amazon, which I want very much to see. Being in the U.S. as I am right now, though… There are some state governments I would like to see act, but I am also brainstorming other nonviolent disruptive action which could be taken, because the federal government right now is actual fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frustrating, but I appreciate your answer; thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is “(most favored nation status)” in parentheses?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have often wondered whether targeted internet boycott days would shake up AWS, but I don’t know enough about their billing structure to run the numbers to see how much that would dig into AWS profits + how much of their income is flat subscription fees vs. billing on number of calls and haven’t had a chance to dig into it yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The other commenters here are right about Amazon’s initial methods, but I’m also going to highly recommend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification for a detailed explanation of how this happens (including a breakdown on Amazon specifically) and what to do about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Call me when you can run AI on burritos.