Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But no matter how many times we insist that the torment nexus shouldn't be created, ...
But no matter how many times we insist that the torment nexus shouldn't be created, the boardrooms of end-stage capitalism continue to invent them. Take HP, the poster-child for enshittification, edging out even KPMG in the race to turn everything into a pile of shit. After years of tormenting people to punish them for wanting to print things, HP has announced a new service that so mustache-twirlingly evil that it *lacks verisimilitude*:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/17/
Published at
2024-03-02 13:29:27Event JSON
{
"id": "a86ff768dc77d65b5da1e9383e4463efa74520ae2dc890a0606d58e72cabf698",
"pubkey": "21856daf84c2e4e505290eb25e3083b0545b8c03ea97b89831117cff09fadf0d",
"created_at": 1709386167,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"082beb15c8195c5f9755ebc3bb332d9f3f342b802a10126c901a956e097a8a8e",
"wss://relay.mostr.pub",
"reply"
],
[
"content-warning",
"Long thread/17"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/112026331903961820",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "But no matter how many times we insist that the torment nexus shouldn't be created, the boardrooms of end-stage capitalism continue to invent them. Take HP, the poster-child for enshittification, edging out even KPMG in the race to turn everything into a pile of shit. After years of tormenting people to punish them for wanting to print things, HP has announced a new service that so mustache-twirlingly evil that it *lacks verisimilitude*:\n\nhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/\n\n17/",
"sig": "0740c8b5bc8c5e3b1173c40c2b3ebe167dd88ab69ad51d431bff24c81000dcc506d0e11d37ba8c1b348a486a4d3ebbc1cf260b8f10db2b77e6234b18883c2a1d"
}
