The API change wasn’t it, it’s when it became clear to me they were selling all my data to Google. I frequented mental health subs, and I started getting Google ads for scams TARGETING people with mental health issues. Just sick.

You’re talking about rebuilding and continuing society; I’m talking about hospice. It’s like making sure someone on death row is getting plenty of exercise and eating healthy.

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For what? They can stock pile 200 years worth of food a supplies now and just sit on it till they run out. At which point they will die.

Probably not. I believe if we look at how poorly humanity as assimilated information about climate change, I think it is more or less a given that we will manage to kill ourselves off. A few stragglers might live in the bunkers the tech giants made for themselves, but humanity as a whole will be on the way out.

I have a very small set of friends, and I got my PhD in Indiana. Randomly, while renewing my visa in England, I bumped into some friends who were just traveling.

It’s almost as if there is a financial incentive to enshitify everything.