Personally I'd say every single product and service being transparently wrapped in a personal information honeypot
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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I like those note-taking apps that require my location for a better user experience
In case someone needs help:
Uber/Lyft
Airbnb
Bitcoin/Crypotocurrency
ChatGPT/LLMs
Because you have 2/4 general terms:
- Rideshare
- Short term rentals
- Crypto
- LLM
"Rideshare" is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren't sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.
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shouldnt 4 also include AI generated images?
Better term would probably be generative AI to also cover music, video and my grandmother's soul.
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Forgot "Glorified Pump-&-Dump scheme" (NFT's)
NFTs are basically Bitcoin and fall under fake money for criminals.
Stamp collecting for criminals
Nah it's worse. Bitcoin actually has legitimate uses. (Yes, they are a minority of actual usage, but they exist.) NFTs are only useful for speculation, gambling and money laundering.
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I personally hate the "thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives" ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.
Literally the exact plot of a black mirror episode.
I swear there are some people watching Black Mirror and furiously taking notes
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On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it's clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It's dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children's media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?
You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don't pay the rent, they'll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.
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The Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
How about
- reinventing trains but worse
- rocketing amount of space launches filling up junk
- we deliver everything but once we take over it'll all be crap rip off products (for slave wages)
- we deliver any food by people who can't drive (for slave wages)
- we'll create algorithms to enforce society divisions and hurt mental health of children
- we'll take over a popular platform and make it even more disgusting and fascist
It so happens that stuff useful for criminals is sometimes also useful for political dissidents or simply people who consider the country's laws too oppressive. Encrypted communication is another example of this.
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What would we do without capitalist innovation? Before capitalism, nothing was invented. Look at us now!
Where's "video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them"?
Where's "removal of a common phone feature, because if you don't buy a $528 external DAC and a $9164 planar headphones, you'll be okay with a pair of raycons"?
Where's "video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them"?
This new and groundbreaking technological innovation?
So gatcha games are just video games returning to their roots?
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I like this meme every time I see it here on anarchist forums.
well now we can add on: “illegal gambling on literally everything”
and “1984 level surveillance being sold to the government instead of being done by them directly so somehow legal”
… maybe something about giant ai networks of murder robots waging war?
fuck why did we have to get the worst cyberpunk sci-fi future….
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To be fair, all money is fake and used by criminals
The leader of the country that prints the world's reserve currency is a convicted felon so that tracks.
Yeah but is it destroying the environment? Also yes.
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"Exploiting immigrants to deliver food"
Wait till you learn about their latest innovation!
Exploiting individuals from other countries to bypass labor laws in the country of business operation!
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