Disney+ While the first Disney+ K-drama, 'Snowdrop,' may have been met with controversy, the platform has thankfully continued distributing South Korean shows to great success.
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With the Digital Decade policy programme the Commission plans for Europe’s digital transformation by 2030. Investing in skills, infrastructures, businesses and the public sector.
If you had swapped the top and bottom sections of the page, things would already give a better impression.
Current page seems to reflect the actual priorities be on mindless #DigitalTransformation again. Let's fund that and enjoy our future:
People at the centre [of the machine]. Freedom of choice [but not offline]. Safety and security [for AI/cloud vendors]. Solidarity and inclusion [behind your screen]. Participation [with the mouse (or VR??)]. Sustainability [obligatory mention, AI-first].
I tooted earlier that in our Albert Heijn supermarket they switched to self-scan barracks surveilled by underage guards, ready to frisk your shopping basket. Everyone can be a thief, and thus by extension also a MS-13 gang member. Modern logic.
Digital transformation this way helps unravel the fabric of society. It only dehumanises us.
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@krystyna yes small purchases is fine. A cart full of self-scan shebang is super #enshittification.
What I notice is that people are waiting in long scan queue when it is busy, while the one slightly hidden cashier-operated check-out is idle. People seem to enjoy the chore and the #individualism.
And then you have the scanbro's who smoothly surf through the production line. Ultra-fast suave scan motions in a blur. 20 seconds.. "ah, I did it again". To the jealousy of the common scan folks. 🤣
I've never yet tried to figure out how to use a self checkout.
A year or two back, I walked into a McDonalds and found no menu board or humans to give money to, just some kind of giant human sized tablet thing standing by the entrance.
No apparent slot to take cash so I assume you *have* to use a card. I have no idea how it was supposed to work. I left.
I'm deliberately obtuse and slow at these checkout points, as a small act of resistence.
The way we continue to treat new technology as *progress* by default, and just dump it onto society, will do us in, I'm sure.
The xenophobes with their "illegal alien" stuff are choosing a future where on their death bed, there's only a machine to care for them.. if they have the money. Otherwise they rot on the street in a dehumanised society.
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Enough of the drama of the world, time for some lovely news:
"Man gets trapped in #LakeMichigan quicksand, emerges with a girlfriend"
Mitchell O'Brien and Breanne Sika were on their 2nd date
When she called emergency services for help further down the beach for a better signal, she referred to him as her boyfriend for the 1st time. At the same time, he was calling emergency services while stuck in quicksand, and he referred to her as his girlfriend for the 1st time
@courtcan I live along bluffs in the Toronto area, along Lake Ontario. There is a fair bit of erosion and some of that mud is very quicksandy. I tried, cautiously, to step over some one spring, after a slide blocked the walking trail, and my foot was sucked in scary-fast. I was able to pull it out as it was being sucked in and learned a valuable lesson.
Some time later, someone else decided to walk across similar mud, got sucked in, and died of hypothermia before rescue could come.
I had a dog that could fetch sticks on the beach all day. It was hard to stop because she would pout all the way home but I had to stop or risk injury.
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in reply to just small circles 🕊 • • •Let's put the by-lines first:
- People at the centre
- Freedom of choice
- Safety and security
- Solidarity and inclusion
- Participation
- Sustainability
I spotted a low-hanging fruit. See screenshot.
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in reply to just small circles 🕊 • • •If you had swapped the top and bottom sections of the page, things would already give a better impression.
Current page seems to reflect the actual priorities be on mindless #DigitalTransformation again. Let's fund that and enjoy our future:
People at the centre [of the machine].
Freedom of choice [but not offline].
Safety and security [for AI/cloud vendors].
Solidarity and inclusion [behind your screen].
Participation [with the mouse (or VR??)].
Sustainability [obligatory mention, AI-first].
just small circles 🕊
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in reply to just small circles 🕊 • • •This article gives a good name to a phenomenon that goes hand in hand with the mindless #DigitalTransformation hype: self-service age.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I tooted earlier that in our Albert Heijn supermarket they switched to self-scan barracks surveilled by underage guards, ready to frisk your shopping basket. Everyone can be a thief, and thus by extension also a MS-13 gang member. Modern logic.
Digital transformation this way helps unravel the fabric of society. It only dehumanises us.
Hell is not other people – it’s being stuck in the ninth circle of an automated telephone service
Hilary Freeman (The Guardian)Krystyna
in reply to just small circles 🕊 • • •If grocery stores credited me say $3 for each purchase I’d happily scan my own groceries. But since they don’t, I’ll go to a human.
I do appreciate scanning small purchases to avoid a wait.
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in reply to Krystyna • • •@krystyna yes small purchases is fine. A cart full of self-scan shebang is super #enshittification.
What I notice is that people are waiting in long scan queue when it is busy, while the one slightly hidden cashier-operated check-out is idle. People seem to enjoy the chore and the #individualism.
And then you have the scanbro's who smoothly surf through the production line. Ultra-fast suave scan motions in a blur. 20 seconds.. "ah, I did it again". To the jealousy of the common scan folks. 🤣
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in reply to just small circles 🕊 • • •@krystyna
I've never yet tried to figure out how to use a self checkout.
A year or two back, I walked into a McDonalds and found no menu board or humans to give money to, just some kind of giant human sized tablet thing standing by the entrance.
No apparent slot to take cash so I assume you *have* to use a card. I have no idea how it was supposed to work. I left.
just small circles 🕊
in reply to Steve Leach • • •@stevenaleach @krystyna
I'm deliberately obtuse and slow at these checkout points, as a small act of resistence.
The way we continue to treat new technology as *progress* by default, and just dump it onto society, will do us in, I'm sure.
The xenophobes with their "illegal alien" stuff are choosing a future where on their death bed, there's only a machine to care for them.. if they have the money. Otherwise they rot on the street in a dehumanised society.
Tech must serve people. It does not.