This trend is incredibly depressing. In the 2010s, large parts of the left were optimistically talking about automation. But then everyone got degrowth, anti-tech brainworms. You gotta pitch a bright vision for the future to win, not just condemn everything.

a consequence of open protocols is anyone can scrape. a consequence of a closed protocol is that only the regime approved people can scrape your data. maybe that's better if you trust the regime, but a closed system with bad actors you disagree with running the show seems uniformly worse to me.

every day is black friday if you’re goth enough