What We're Fighting For

They're pretty terrible, and they hit you everywhere, and they hit you in a manifest ways and manifold ways and ways that just fill you full of little poisons every day. And it's these little things that are mostly overlooked, mostly by the media. See the modern tech clash narrative pushed by the media hasn't been focused on anything other than big MEATI problems like METS Cambridge Analyticals scandal, while ignoring the gradual destruction of the products we use every day.

In the space of a decade, Google made its ads on search look near identical to regular search results, and only a few websites like search engine Land, for example, seemed to take that and the other changes made to the algorithm of one of the single most important sources of information in the world with any kind of seriousness.

The fact that I, a part time blogger with a podcast that runs a PR firm during the day, was the one to on cover and discuss how the ads team made Google Search worse for money nine months after the associated emails were made public. It's just a glaring example of the misalignment of the tech media with what actually affects people on a daily basis. But let me

give you another example. In Nvidia, one of the most single covered tech companies of the last year, has effectively lied about the launch of its RTX fifty eighty and RTX fifty ninety graphics cards, doing something called a paper launch, where stores like Microcenter received as few as two hundred thirty three RTX fifty ninety graphics cards nationwide, while Nvidia

did warn of stock shortages. It's laughable to even call this a launch, and I'd argue that the tech media as well basically no interest in covering it, despite this being a very very significant story about how in Nvidia is misleading people about its consumer and procemer graphics cards, which by the way, make up billions of dollars of revenue and a large percentage of it. And that and it does not appear to be able to deliver them on time or in any kind of value or volume.

These events hit millions of consumers in a tangible way. In Vidia, despite all its financial success selling AI chips to companies like Microsoft and Amazon, appears to be spurning one of its core customer bases, the one it built its name on, by the way, and the response from the consumer tech media has been steppit. The Verge covered this, by the way, tom Hardware has done it like there

are people covering it. And this is all despite the fact that PC gaming revenue is comparable insights to console gaming. It's forty three point two billion in two four compared to the fifty one point nine billion dollars the console gaming brought in, and according to research from new Zoo and PC gaming, by the way, is one of the only things that's growing right now. It's growing four percent year of a year, compared to a one percent contraction

in console revenue. This shit's really important. But things are worse. Things are worse than I'm even saying in Vidius fifty eighty graphics cards, well they kind of suck, and they represent how in Video is treating PC gamers in twenty twenty five. According to Paul's Hardware, a fantastic YouTube channel, and they skewered in video for slowly reducing the amount of performance gains you'll get out of mid range graphics

cards like the fifty eighty and the previous generation. And this is a cynical attempt to make it so that anyone looking for a real upgrade to their graphics card has to spend upwards of two thousand dollars and a fifty ninety A can't that they can't find. And there's more, by the way, And I can't really speak to this fully as I'm not super into the hardware spaceball. I'll include a YouTube right now. There is a massive scandal

going on that Technedia really isn't jumping on. In Vidos few fifty ninety graphics cards may have been poorly load balanced. Sounds technical right. It means all the powers going into like two wires and literally melting cards. This may lead to a recall. This is significant. I don't see anything on the new York Times about it. Guess guess something else is happening. I guess they're busy. But anyway, this

is significant. This is really significant. This is like Apple slowly over the course of years reducing the efficiency and performance of the regular iPhone in the hopes of deucing sales of the iPhone Pro. Yet the only people that are taking stories like these seriously appear to be video creators like Paul's Hardware who I've mentioned, and Game is Nexus. Stephen Burke, the fucking legend. Stephen, come on my show please. If you know Stephen, email me at my web zone,

easy at Better offline dot com. There's e Z at Better Offline dot com. Please Stephen. By the way, these these are not small channels. One point five million subscribers on Paul's Hardware, two point four million on Game is Nexus, and time and time again. These guys, specifically, they can on real stories that affect real consumers, like gaming PC builder NZXT creating a PC rental program that actively conned consumers with rates worse than a payday loan company. And

they act like Stephen and Paul. They protect consumers from active harm as the mainstream media chases their tales about whatever half broken bullshit Sam Moultman has farted out on their heads in video, a company discussed by what it feels like every single business and tech out there has a documented pattern of misleading and shortchanging customers. Why is

this not everywhere? Huh? It's almost as if the only reason that anyone's talking about in video is that there's a herd mentality in what stories are important to the modern media, rather than any kind of relationship to the

effects that these companies might have on actual customers. The mainstream media, especially when it comes to technology, does not seem capable or willing to discuss the real, tangible, obvious problems with the modern tech ecosystem, instead choosing to attack things piecemeal or blandly, reporting news with as little context as necessary, how with as many company quotes as possible. Look, people are pissed off at the tech industry because the

tech industry is actively pissing them off. They are getting less value from the products they pay for, and they're paying more for them too, and they're aware that the free products they use are getting worse as a means of making them more profitable. Stories about distrust and big tech continually failed to talk about the simplest, most obvious problems. Facebook sucks, Instagram sucks, Our apps suck, Microsoft teams sucks,

Zoom sucks, Google Meet sucks. It sucks. They suck. They're all like, I'm not even being polemic here, these are factual statements. These products are worse. They are worse. Everything feels like it's built to subtly fuck with us. And this is a problem that affects billions of people, one that's discussed so rarely that I am considered creative for writing a thousand words about the literal experience of using

a shitty laptop, as I did in my newsletter. Never forgive them, which are turned into the invisible war criminals. You know how the process goes, Folks more fun when I read it. Anyway, these problems are everywhere. They're everywhere, and they're real, meaningful stories, ones that are more important than Dario amideo anthropic farting into a microphone about how in maybe two years AI will be smarter than humans.

These fucking assholes just go on bloviate, and the media lines up like fucking idiots to go, Oh, mister Amiday, tell me how smart you are? Fuck you. I'm referring to AMIDE. I'm not telling the tech need to go fuck themselves. Regular people are not really, in my opinion from my experience from talking to people, not pissed off a big tech for any complex or multifaceted series of events that made them pissed off. The shit they pay for sucks. The shit they use sucks. The shit they

trade their data for sucks. The products are broken or in the process of actively breaking. And when consumers look at to these companies, they're told, yeah, well, what if you had some generative AI. What do you think? Do you like it? What do you think?

The first ad I received is for truth Social, you know, the Donald Trumps social network, followed by popular iPhone apps including Bumble, which is a micro transaction heavy dating app, Paramount plus Zoom Max that's HBO Max I don't know, Amazon Prime Video, and of course Tinder, another micro transaction heavy dating app, followed by another micro transaction heavy mobile gaming app, madd in NFL twenty five Mobile football, followed

by another micro transaction heavy mobile game, Clash of Clans, followed by another micro transaction game, Artro, followed by helpful apps for every day, which included Strava, a fitness at that I use, letter Bogs, the social network for people to review movies, StoryGraph and app for tracking books you've read,

Peanut and from others to connect with each other. And then some sort of app for discovering irl plans near you called Pie and part of Ale, and app for planning parties, immediately followed by an ad for Apple's own party and by app that specifically competes with them. It'd

be so cool if we had antitrust now. The next carousel is for ten great dating apps, the first of which is okay Cupid, a dating app with a one out of five star rating on trust Pilot, but the first review is saying that and I quote, everything is designed to force you into paying, and even when you do, you quickly realize it's not worth it. Okay Cupid is owned by the publicly traded Match Group, which owns three of the other apps on the list, Hinge, Tinder, and

plenty of Fish. And the reason I'm agonizingly breaking down these problems is because that I believe the problems of the modern tech industry are far simpler and far more

pervasive than the media will face. Apple's App Store, a trillion dollar marketplace where Apple take thirty percent of almost every buck of developer makes, actively promotes and profits off of exploitative free to play mobile games that academics believe rob consumers of their right to self determination, And an online dating industry that has adopted these very same ideas to turn romance into its own kind of free to play a game. I'm saying ale. By the way, my

single friends all experience this. These apps are insane. These apps are completely bonkers. They are asking you for money constantly. They very clearly hide the best matches behind pay wars. This is what online dating is now. It's a fucking gatcha game. It's a slot machine. It's a mess. It's absolutely abominable. And you know who makes a shit ton of money off of that abominability. Mister Timothy Cook of Apple.

The App Store largely promotes apps and their associated features from public companies with billions or trillions of dollars in market capitalization, and much like Google Search, only functions to bring you results that are convenient Apple and they no longer highlight apps based on anything other than shadowy partnerships

and profit incentives. No, I do not believe the App Store editorial group is going, huh, what if we advertise the literal apps that everyone has, the apps that people know about already, or maybe they just want more micro transaction revenue. It's that it's so obvious, and this is the way that tens, if not hundreds of millions of people are introduced to software, and the software they're introduced

to is inherently exploitative. It's like if every Kroger store sold bread that costs an extra three dollars, if you wanted to cut it into slices, or bacon that required you to subscribe to Bacon Plus, if you kept it in the fridge for longer than two days. I'm not even being facetious. This is the actual scale of the harms being done against actual consumers by a company with

a market capitalization of three point five trillion dollars. When somebody buys a new iPhone, they're not thinking like me or you or someone else deeply aware of the incentives behind these companies. They blindly, because nobody really explains this year or takes it seriously in the media, download whatever

apps they see promoted by Apple. Consumers trust Apple, and as a result, trust the companies that Apple chooses to promote, at which point whatever malevolent mechanisms these companies use are more effective because consumers believe that Apple, a company with a multi trillion dollar market cap, wouldn't allow nakedly explodedive apps on their phones. Except they do. They don't just let them in. They give them a comfy fucking chair

to beat the shit out of your wallet. Apple could very easily use its unilateral control over the entire app store to prevent these companies from existing, or at least choose not to promote them. Instead, they choose to both ensure and profit from their success by putting them in front of millions and millions of consumers every day. And I want to be explicit here. Apple could just not accept dating apps they use microtransactions. They could say, hey,

this seems like it's just fucking with consumers. They could do the same with these mobile games that use manipulative psychological tricks to make you do these things, and it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous because they it's not that they just allow it. It's not like this is just a we're being a galitarian. We let these companies in. We let everyone in, and as long as they apply to our standards. Also what standards, that's fine. They're like, yeah, baby, it's it's Apple time.

Join the Apple wagon. You want to be on the front of the app store. Fuck, yeah, I hope you scam someone give us that thirty percent. Baby. While micro transactions aren't inherently evil when I'm restrained, they naturally lead to evil outcomes. As I've repeatedly said, modern dating apps effectively require users to buy both a monthly subscription and piecemeal items that make your message your profile more prominent

in an app dominated by spam profiles. Mobile gaming, an industry that makes tens of billions of dollars of yearly revenue, has become dominated by free to play games that require you to spend money to progress, using deceptive psychological techniques to push users into spending money in small amounts that naturally add up to much more than a triple a gaming title and a console or a computer. I hammer so hard and repetitively on because they make up the

majority of the promoted content on Apple's app store. Good Lord, good fucking lord. We would scream if a city was dominated by people just selling drugs at every corner, if our streets were unsafe. Even if they're not unsafe, Republicans still go on TV and talk about harn's safe. They are somehow this is okay. Though, somehow this is okay, despite this being a direct portal into people's lives and into people's wallets. It's just disgusting. It pisses me off.

And as I've said, to be abundantly clear, Apple had and has the power to kill any of these industries are at the very least limit their harms. Apple controls every single thing that goes on the app Store, and could very easily make dark patterns that manipulate consumers, which are by the way, in the majority of subscription apps. You can just make them against the rules and harshly penalize the apps that use microtransactions. Apple could do this tomorrow.

They could do it today. Apple could easily take a stand against these companies. The combined micro transactions with loop boxes, which are essentially in game content that you don't know what you're buying ahead of time. You hit bun, money goes in, thing pops out. They could get rid of that. And by the way, this is a way of introducing kids to gambling. What do you think these kids go and use games like Fortnite and they just fucking Fortnite

have loop boxes. I'm one hundred years old. Nevertheless, Robox another title on there principally aimed at children with micro transactions. All of this is great. It's so good. I love watching this. This makes me happy. And one could argue that it's the companies themselves, not Apple, choosing to make these decisions. But at the scale at which Apple operates, they're effectively a kind of government, and any government regulation controls the kinds of products and services that can be

offered to a consumer. But Apple's app store isn't like a regular government or a democracy. It's a kleptocracy where sleazy companies like the Match Group who as I mentioned, they own Hinge, tinder match dot Com and OkCupid and Supercell who makes clash of plans they can make Apple billions of dollars in app store fees by tricking and

hurting consumers. Apple, through sheer scale, dictates exactly how the economics of apps and consumer purchasing at large, to an extent, operate, and it's their decisions that have allowed these poisonous flowers to bloom. This, i'd argue is one of the largest

scale consumer harms in existence. There are hundreds of millions of people with iOS devices, and Apple has perpetuated and profited off of economics that are actively harmful, manipulative, and cruel, and will continue to do so unless meaningful regulation or media pressure makes them do otherwise. The latter would require

the media to actually discuss this problem. I can find no major media outlet that's run anything even close to an evaluation of the state of the modern app store, Nor can I find any condemnation of the very obvious harms perpetuated by Apple or Google with their app stores, outside of the lawsuit between Epic and Apple, which hasn't so much been about the harms themselves, but the extent to which Apple has profited off of them, and stopped

other people from profiting themselves. Similarly, there's little coverage of the destruction of Google Search or the horrifying state of Instagram and Facebook. While outlets have had dalliances and little flirtations with the collapse of Search, Charlie wallzer that the Atlantic was earlier than most myself included. These are usually one and dumb features, the momentary hmm in the slop

of breaking news and hot takes. If these stories even happen at all, you might argue that one could not simply write these stories again and again, to which I say, skill issue the destruction of the products at the core of society, the fabric of society. It's real important. It should be in the news constantly. And like I said, they talk about crime all the time in modern metropolitan areas. This is a crime. It's not illegal, but I consider

it criminal in the zytron justice system. I will now be building and please on the Reddit let me know other things that need to be in the zitron justice system.

Companies like Google, Meta and Apple have been allowed to expand their wealth and influence to the point that they're effectively nation states, and I believe they should be ported on As such, the manifold ways in which Mark Zuckerberger's manipulated Facebook's users as a means to express growth to the public markets is a perpetual act of abuse, globally perpetuated. Yet it remains relatively undiscussed because the media refuses to

discuss technology in a way that actually affects people. The same ghost for Apples app store, and the same ghost of a Google search and shit, I'd argue most of them onder the internet? How is it not a bigger story that the mobile browsing experience on most websites ranges from awful to impossible to use because your browser crashed. And I think this is the thing that really confuses me. How the fuck is this not being written about? You

see it any time you use your phone. It's everywhere, always, all the time. There's so many examples, Yet tech coverage is always about news or how to do something on your computer or phone that isn't obvious without any acknowledgment that the reason that that piece has to exist, The reason that something isn't obvious is because user interface design

is terrible. They don't care anymore. And also, you want your website to rank high on Google Search, And I'd argue that regular people are experiencing these pains at scale, and they're so frustrated because they know, beneath the layers of abstraction, of worrying incentives and abusive you why choices, there's something they want or something they need. And I'm not just angry at Mark Zuckerberg for turning Facebook into

an actively harmful product. I'm angry that he's done so in a way that took away something that made the Internet magical in the same way, and I despise Probagar Ragavan and suned up a Shai for doing the same with Google Search. And I'm not just angry at one of the many different quarter page sized ads that block an article I want to read. I'm angry that one of the coolest things on the Internet, access to very media sources on the toilet, is literally obfuscated by the

demands of growth. The Internet allows us to do so many things, and what we see today is both a technological marvel and a disgrace to humanity. We right now have the ability to talk to somebody thousands of miles away, to send them a photo of a video of what we're doing, to meet people we'd never meet in real

life and build meaningful relationships with them. As a creator, a writer, whatever hell you call me, I'm able to shoot the shit with my buddy Casey and Socow or my editor Matt Hughes in Liverpool, and I'm able to do so about the same speed and as a result, right thousands of words of ideas and perform these long podcasts where I get extremely mad that well Matt Asowski or Matt Hughes ends up editing all with a few clicks, and I can distribute my newsletter to fifty five thousand

people and the podcast to a number larger or smaller that I can't say than that it's kind of cool. I can go on Boo Sky and shoot the shit with people I know well or who I've just met or never met in my life and have a blast doing so. I can sit in my living room and play a video game while I stream music to my phone from my phone to a big speaker and a few taps, and this technology has become more and more

accessible as the years have gone on. It's really cool, and we live in a time where technology does really really cool things that help billions of people these companies can innovate, and they can make our lives better. The problem is that software may have actually eaten the world, and growth hold software's leash. The rot economy sits above all things. It's not enough for Apple to make iterations

of the iPhone that are better and faster. It must sell more of them every quarter, and the software sitting in those iPhones must continue to generate monthly or quarterly revenue or annual revenue imperpetuity. The websites you read that have page wide ads, they're all run by people that don't read anything and must see revenue numbers increase. And they're doing so because they're looking for startup metrics in media,

which has never ever worked. And that's the same way that the Match group must always find new ways to increase quarterly revenues for their dating apps, even if they way they do so is to make them cost more money to connect with people and to officscate the connections that we log on to find. Each of these ideas a miniature little computer that sits in our and it gives us access to the world's information, or an app

for falling in love. They're extremely cool, Yet the reckless incentives of the rot economy and growth of poison them. And like I've said, I don't hate this stuff. I love it. I'm a broken hearted romantic. The internet made me who I am, and it allowed me to thrive both this as a person and a professional, and it continues to do so every day, except now I have the fight seemingly every app and service to get them

to do what I want. As I've said before, I will never forgive these people for what they've done to the computer, as I love what the computer has done for me, and I hate what the computer now does to other people and myself. Because Apple, Google and Meta need to increase quarterly revenues. Well, look, it's easy to give in too pessimism here, but I'd argue the better alternative is to be loud and annoying and extremely verbal

about the problems you see. Every single website you use has a feedback form, and I really encourage you to use them, as I encourage you to complain about these problems on social media and to regularly say the names of the people who cause these problems to everybody you know.

If you're feeling particularly spicy, perhaps right you're elected officials that you believe the quality of digital products you're using is getting worse as a means of increasing stock prices, and add that doing so is anti democratic, anti competitive, and an American and very harmful. But really, just say on American, say to them, look like, look, this isn't real business, this isn't what America's for. And I realized why that might not sound so good right now, But

maybe you listen to this in the future. And there's another idea. I think a lot of these executives have email accounts. Why not let them know how you feel. I'm not saying be horrible or rude like Jeff Atamazon dot Com. I think like, you don't need to. Don't be horrible to these people, really please don't. But I think you should look them up and let them know how bad things have become and mention how long you've used them and how bad they are, and how you're

going to keep emailing them every couple weeks. Let them know. You don't want to spam them, you don't want to thrown, you don't want to be nasty. You just want to very patiently let them know. Because these people, they're insulated, they're safe they don't have anything that really scares or upsets them. They read their emails. That's the one thing I know. But another thing you can do is be less useful. If you use Instagram, use it in a

way that actively generates less engagement. Click through a few stories, then drop off the app. Don't use the feed, avoid clicking or staying on any ads, go through them quickly, and as Jeff Fowler at The Washington Post recommends, reset your feed regularly. Delete the data that these companies have on you regularly, and they'll be links. By the way to this, and anytime a company asks you for feedback that isn't about a customer service w app, skip it,

close the browser. That data is only useful for them. In general, engage with apps less, both in the amount of time you spend on them and the amount of time you interact with their features and obsessively read every single privacy policy. These companies make billions of dollars off idle muscle memory based use of their software. So get used to letrics and work against them. And if you really don't use the service, stop using it. By the way, I'm not going to judge you for staying on an

oath of them. I'm still on Instagram because it's where a lot of my friends are and I like seeing what they're up to. Again, not against these products in principle, I just hate what they've become. But more importantly, I want you to find solidarity with others against the rot economy.

Every single person you meet is a victim. Every single person you meet faces similar problems to you, and every single person you know is likely pissed off at email spam, the collapse of social networks and Google, and or the abulnerable state of modern business software. We all have this. This is a thing that all of us deal with.

It's bipartisan, it's cross culture, it's cross class. Though I would argue it hurts people the lower their income is much like most of America, and this is something we all face. I know it sounds kind of smaltzy' to be like, oh, you're fellow man, but really it is. I don't know how else you connect with people, but

I guarantee their software pisces them off. But the reason that these companies have been able to penetrate and poison so many things using software as a combination of lacks regulation and a dose style society or approach to technology. They want no no, They need you to feel hopeless. They need you to think that they're too big, that they can grow oh forever, or do whatever they want to you, and that there'll never be enough negative sentiment

to change their ways. The reality is these people are extremely vulnerable, extremely unprepared, and they don't know how to deal with pushback. Tech executives are poorly media trained, thin skinned, and have never faced any meaningful negative consumer sentiment, largely because they've never faced any meaningful competition. They simply do not believe you will act in a way that doesn't benefit them, because they've done literally everything they can to

make it difficult to avoid or leave their systems. They need you to think that things will always be this bad, or that they'll get worse, and for you to just sit there and take it, rather than screaming in their fucking faces about what they're doing and saying it's unacceptable. They want you to give up. Don't let them destabilize you.

Do not let them pump you full of cynicism, of pessimism, of the belief that there's nothing good and thus that there can be nothing that will ever change that we're in this unchanging hell. We are not going forward. One of my missions with this podcast is to give you the language to describe what is being done to you and the names of those responsible for doing it to you.

I fundamentally believe that anyone can understand the stuff I'm talking about, and that the tech behind it is not magic, and that the terrible things being done to you are being done in the name of the rot economy and perpetual growth, and that none of these things are mystical or requires some insane background. You can do this. I talk to so many of you over email, and it's awesome because your teachers, robbers, your people that drive into banks and with a big car. No no, no, no

more criminal stuff. Please keep that off the Reddit. But generally most of the people that contact me, and non tech people, you all seem to fucking get out. I don't know what the problem is, and I want you to understand this stuff so you can make better decisions and also understand that you are the victim of a con where you've been convinced that you were behind the times, when the tech industry just actually gave up on serving you.

Our economy and the majority of public companies are run by people who do not face any real problems or do any real work, and the tech industry, run by similar people, has oriented itself around building products and services. To say, album these people do not use their own products, or if they do, they do so in such a distant way that it doesn't really matter if they suck. It's time to speak about these companies and this softer and

plain terms. We are in an era of rot our markets, dominated by a growth obsessed death cult so powerful that it's just accepted that the only good stocks are those that grow every single quarter. A good company is no longer one that provides a good service or that will be around in ten years. No, it's one that provides a service in such a way that they can jack up the prices or upsell customers while also somehow getting

more customers. If anything, the rot economy is kind of like a global Ponzi scheme, where the only companies that succeed are the ones that can continually get more customers and come up with new ways to get more customers that don't exist yet. Even if the service or the goods provided are bad, it doesn't matter to these companies that the only thing that grows forever is cancer, and the perpetual growth could very well falter and then crash everything.

It's short term thinking all the time. I want you to start seeing everything through the lens of growth, and I believe everything will start making more sense as a result. And these companies don't even have to do it this way success and being a decent in the moral sense of the word sparingly in the case of capitalism, you can do this as a company. These things are not mutually exclusive. These companies could have modest two to five

percent growth each quarter. They could make good software that people like. They could do all of these things, but they choose not to. They'd rather hurt us because growth is more important to them than whether our lives fucking suck. They'd rather refuse to maintain a rigorously test their products, especially their software, because investing in customers doesn't grow your customer base as fast as focusing on finding new ones.

And these things have been happening for over a decade, and being able to explain them for you, I mean, it's important. You need to be able to do this in plain English. Having conversations about this is important too. Talk to your friends and your family and your coworkers about this stuff. They're all dealing with it too. I don't care if my work's involved. Just tell them what's fucking happening. Look, you can't change the world on your own, and you may very well go through the world without

changing much at all. But in your own small way, you can, at the very least, contribute to a greater hope and positivity in the bubble around you. The ideas you have of a fair or better, more inclusive world, one where people are not vilified for being who they are, are shared by most people. We outnumber them, and we outnumber them by an overwhelming margin. The demands you make of the world do not necessarily need to be realistic,

but they can be fair. It's not unfair to demand a tech industry that is worth I don't know, a few hundred billion dollars while providing a service that largely benefits the world around us. At the very least, we can ask for shit that works. Discussing ideas what a better world might look like. It's eternal. It's the root

of humanity. It's what gives us light in the darkest times, and what the darkest people in the world wish to rob of us, not simply hope, but the ingredients of hope, the stuff that builds the foundation that allows us to truly believe. This isn't to say any of this will be an easy process, nor one without deep dark moments, but at the very least we can have standards and

beliefs in ourselves of what better looks like. And now it kind of feels a little silly to hold up better software and technology is such a serious concept, but I think the world as it stands is suffering due to the tolerance we've had for the horrifying conditions of modern software, which has now been deeply penetrated into every part of our lives, in some cases leaving trash lying around that we find ourselves tripping over all the time.

Software has, to some extent, truly improved humanity, all having levels of connection that are truly special, both with those we know and those we barely know. It has, however, grown without restraint, without true accountability for those who write it and deploy it, and let's be honest, barely maintain it or actively and consciously striving to undermine it. I cannot promise you that will ever have solutions to any of these problems. But I can, as you can, say

what a better world looks like. And a better world is one where software works for, not against, the people that use it. There's no harm in liking or even loving technology. Ges Liking it allows you to more articulately explain why you fucking hate what they've made of it. Expressing what good looks like what you love allows you to cut deeper with your hatred for those who have caused you so much harm. This starts, by the way, with naming those responsible for poisoning the world with software.

Sundopeshi of Google, satch In the Della of Microsoft, Tim Cook and Phil Schiller who runs the app store of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, and the other invisible war criminals responsible for the destruction of our digital lives. They have nothing but their names. The tech industry is so woefully unprepared to deal with regular people having the language and understanding of their horrible acts. Crisis p Arthentek does not know how to deal with real people saying why did

you fuck up my website? In the thousands or millions, These people have never ever dealt with real accountability, or even a real conversation about what they're doing and why they're doing it. We deserve better, so we should fucking ask for it. Thank you for listening to Better Offline.