2026-05-11 08:39 UTC
If I search "how to fix a washing machine" most, if not all, results are pages trying to sell me washing machines, the services of a plumber, or an article that looks useful at first but turns out to meander around anything concrete. Capital works like misinformation, to make it harder for us to find what we're looking for, or in this case, to alter the purpose of the web, to make it a shopping mall.
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@tamewhale@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 09:05
If the web is a democratic project, capital and LLMs are a force to undermine that. To the capitalist, the early days of the web, of any kind of computing that a person could create or alter themselves, were a kind of wild west, an unexploitable landscape. Automating this kind of work, and making that automation expensive is a way of "correcting" that, of literally seizing the means of production away from the riffraff.