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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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It's the only electric vehicle I've even been excited about, not even because it's electric (I would frankly prefer gas) but because it's a small truck. I used to drive a '98 S10 with a manual transmission and hand-cranked windows and I want a truck like that again but no one sells them - I was so disappointed when Ford brought back the Ranger but made it big.
Another upcoming entrant in the small truck market is Telo with their MT1. While more expensive than the base Slate, Telo's even smaller by nearly two feet, seats five, still has a 5 foot bed (that can extend to 8 feet if you fold the back seats), more range, faster charging, more power, option of AWD, more payload capacity, and significantly more towing capacity.
https://www.telotrucks.com/
$41.5k base versus Slate's $27.5k
That 4-second 0 to 60 time looks so tempting.
"subcompact" truck