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@patrickquin@furry.engineer
2026-11-01 04:56:30
Content warning: VRChat call to action pessimism, gen AI

Wish I could trace down that thread by Casey Explosion about how app driven gig economy parasites start out as loss leaders to engage in predatory pricing. How they are able to burn through cash for so long because such apps are still seen as “the future” and a cargo cult of venture capital forms around them.
There are other examples of this happening, even if predatory pricing is not part of the formula, rather “the future” of tech being seen as sci-fi being made real leading to the v…

@ripienaar@devco.social
2026-10-13 07:41:18

The sad cargo cult here who repost anything negative without any scrutiny about a set of topics including right wing bots, AI etc is pretty fucking sad.
The Russian bot story is probably false and have been known to be false for a long enough time that there really is no more excuse.
patre…