KM Gallagher

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Tiergartentunnel erneut gesperrt: Berlin hat ein weiteres Personalproblem S-Bahn, Polizei, Schulen – und jetzt der Tiergartentunnel: Weil überall das Personal fehlt, fallen ständig Teile der Berliner Infrastruktur aus. Probleme werden zur Problem-Serie.

Tunnel zu weil zu viele krank. (Letzte Meldung des Corona-Abwassermonitorings: +17%). Wann wird endlich begriffen, dass saubere Innenraumluft kritische Infrastruktur ist, genauso wie sauberes Wasser?

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I'd read that book fwiw

For some reason FB keeps showing me posts in groups for adult Disney fans (I haven't been since the 90s!) and...the EFFORT involved blows my mind. Waking up at 3 am to book tickets for things! Paying thousands! Booking time slots for everything! It seems like the opposite of relaxed & happy?

Our grandmothers were asked to get full time jobs and raise children on their own without sugar, butter, and coffee for literally years. You were asked not to go to an Adele concert. These are not the same.

Have most people just never been asked to do something slightly or moderately tough for the good of a whole group? Idk, I grew up on stories about rationing during WWII, it always seemed obvious to me that minor inconvenient sacrifices that help the whole community are common and necessary.

I wish things were at least less stupid if they had to be so dire

I think the coolest thing you can do right now is live with integrity and care about the people around you, not just your friends and family but your community. Deny the lie they want you to believe, that taking as much as you can while giving nothing back is the goal.

Streeck beschwert sich, dass wir zu oft zum Arzt gehen. Ich war letztes Jahr genau 1x wegen Krankheit beim Arzt und 2x zum Impfen.

In den letzten Wochen war ich 4x – dank Nachwirkungen einer Coronainfektion.

Erst alle durchseuchen, dann sich über die Kosten beschweren. Unverschämt.

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

...So if Omicron caused the big surge in deaths you would expect to see it later in January.

Truly, I am not trying to say that the vaccines were not a huge accomplishment and a life-saver for many people – but I just wonder about whether they really did 'end' the pandemic.

I just went and looked up the chart with dates. The peak was Jan 8th. IIRC Omicron didn't really hit the West until early Jan 2022. There was also usually a lag between infections rising, hospitalizations, and deaths (I think hospitalizations usually 2 weeks after infection, death a little after) 1/

I am very pro-vax, but doesn't this show that Omicron was the real game changer? That the risk of death became minimal for the vaccinated once we had vaccines, but without Omicron's lower death rate, the unvaccinated would have continued to die in huge numbers and put pressure on health systems?

I feel so dumb. I use two languages daily and suddenly am only finding words in one or the other.

Also – and this might not be a direct effect of the virus – feel a strong urge to punch everyone who told me over the years how "mild" and "cold-like" it is.

I just had it for the first time and it really knocked me sideways. I was also extremely depressed at the peak – that's now gone but the fatigue is still crippling.

Ich war 12 Tage positiv und bin jetzt seit 4 Tagen negativ. Ich bin so wahnsinnig erschöpft. Bitte sagt mir, dass es besser wird.

I see a lot of fake "historical" AI images (most infuriatingly, of supposed Holocaust victims), and a lot of nonsense about the royals because for some reason Facebook believes I am interested in them. It's almost unusable.

Ernstings v Tchibo? Habe heute genau die gleiche Erfahrung gemacht. Auch sehr ärgerlich: Jungs haben all die coolen Motive, dafür aber kaum was Buntes. Mädchen: bunt aber dafür gefühlt nur Einhörner oder "Always be happy"-Motive. Habe ganze 2 Pullover gefunden...

Day 12 and still positive.

Test 7 ist seit der Durchführung ganz schön nachgedunkelt, kann das sein? (Habe nochmal geschaut, weil ich noch positiv bin und vergleichen wollte, wie schwach dein letzter Strich war).

Danke!

Danke! Mein Schnelltest ist leider noch deutlich positiv.

Covid Day 10 and the line on my test is darker than it was yesterday 😭

Oje, das hatte ich noch nicht gehört. Dann würde es tatsächlich sehr wenig nutzen, wenn es ums Timing der Aufhebung der Isolation geht.

PS Egoistische Bitte: ich habe kein PlusLife und wäre dankbar für baldige Vergleiche PlusLife/Schnelltest. Ich plane mich momentan 48 Stunden nach dem 1. negativen ST zu isolieren, aber Daten, wie lange man dann noch PL-positiv ist, würden sehr helfen!

Heute bei mir ein schwacher Strich, aber noch viel Fatigue. Ich hoffe, wenn ich negativ bin, verschwinden auch endlich die Symptome. Mich hat es ganz schön umgehauen.