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💩 OMG there is now a *sequel* to the excellent Enshittificator short film about #enshittification named "The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator": 🍿 https://vimeo.com/1226731365 Definitely also check out the first installment: https://vimeo.com/1168468796 Thanks to @finnmyrstad@eupolicy.social for the original post: https://eupolicy.social/@finnmyrstad/116141082378515849 And, of course, @pluralistic@mamot.fr for coining this iconic term! Sources: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/shortlife/ https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree #bigtech

@sundogplanets Yes thank you so much! 🙏 I gave a talk on so-called "AI" to college students in 2025 but couldn't fit in its environmental effects, so learning from you would be *so* helpful. For what (little) it's worth, I also published my slides if it's helpful to anyone: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17655034 🤔 Hmm, come to think of it I wonder if it'll be useful to co-create an openly-licensed set of slides about the problems with "AI"? Anyone interested? #AI #presentation #datacenters #bigtech

@sundogplanets Thank you so much for giving this talk! ❤️ Do you plan to share any of it (e.g., a handout, slides, etc.) or at least the list of references??

@qurlyjoe Amazing image, thank you for sharing! Who's the author and can you share an original source?

@toolbear @sundogplanets So well said! Agreed. 💯 ❤️

@sundogplanets No worries, sorry that was meant more as a general question for everyone. Didn't mean to give anyone any pressure haha 😅 Thanks again for doing this, and also for your recent podcast episode with @markhurst's Techtonic!

@cainmark @qurlyjoe Thank you! Always great to know the source and author. :)

@beps @fsfe Ah, I see. Thank you for explaining! As someone who has done academic research, I've seen this quite often. It's really frustrating......😩

@aleesteele@post.lurk.org Hey I just saw the new dates, how exciting and thanks for the message! Yeah just let me know when and how I can help. 👍

@aleesteele@post.lurk.org @turingway@fosstodon.org Sounds good!!! Agreed on starting with a lo-fi version. Let's definitely catch up then and discuss this.

@beps @fsfe Thank you for sharing this frustration! Can you elaborate on the details of your experience? Which for profit organisation, and what was it about public research institutions that prevented you from releasing your thing under an open source license? I'd love to have something to point to when I tell others about this story!

@eliza Thank you for doing this, what a cool idea to do this in public libraries! ❤️ 📚 How do I learn more about how you organise these events?

@dank Thanks for sharing! Can anyone share a link to the original source of this image?

@hiramfromthechi@mastodon.social Wow, thanks for sharing this. Do you have more details on the context of this photo, where it came from, etc?

@tenzingContrib@neuromatch.social Thanks for the tips! Is there a good explanation of what JATS-XML is and how to use it??

@aleesteele@post.lurk.org Amazing, thanks for doing this! But I'm bummed that I'll not be in the UK and will miss this again. Is there (or will there be) a written-up version of the tour where I could read along and walk myself through the tour???

@aleesteele@post.lurk.org Sadly I'm not in the UK for almost all of Mar.... But you got me thinking! IMHO it'd be cool - if you're up for developing a "read along" version of the tour - to make it open source as a digital notebook, just like @turingway@fosstodon.org There would be an "canonical" version by you, *and* others could fork & adapt, maybe even add to the tour; curate shorter or longer versions; make one for a different city, etc. Many possibilities! Anyway, let me know if I can help make this happen! 😀

@cwts@social.cwts.nl @anaparroncab@social.cwts.nl Unfortunately I have a conflict and most likely can't make the event. Will you share a recording afterwards? Thanks for putting this together!