I hope it was all worth it for these tech CEOs. Doesn’t look like it though.

Enshittification continues.

After the Ashkenazi data leak, I deleted my data with them. Never sharing that again.

Sorry to hear. Hopefully you bounce back regardless of which direction you take.

What a dystopian nightmare we live in right now. Remember when politicians told us we have choices in our healthcare? I guess it says something that insurance CEOs are so hated that they need armed body guards and we’re so happy about “all our choices”.

I don’t think they’re mature. I think they’re just monopolized to the point where they don’t need to innovate at all. And I don’t see this as a net positive because these companies are so gigantic that they will drive down salaries and benefits for the rest of the middle sized and smaller sized companies. The other problem is that any company that gets this big now has the purchasing power to eliminate competition further cornering the talent pool and the tech market. These guys are the new oil barons of our time and their oil is our data. Not sure how to see this as anything but negative.

Yes. I try to buy local.

We participate in it with stock purchases. We voted for politicians that have systematically broken down American society this way.

It’s pretty clear that billionaire owners of publicly traded companies will do whatever is needed to continue the “number goes up” philosophy of American capitalism. It’s the rot that underlies the whole economy. This isn’t to excuse Zuckerberg but this is America as a whole. The need to increase profits takes priority over bucking fascism, pulling back on vitriolic public discourse, stuffing hyped AI products into every crevice of tech, and pursuing monopolistic business practices. It’s all baked in. And it makes everything worse. No one is attempting to address which is why America is absolutely doomed to collapse. No one is willing to even have the conversation about corporate control/influence of government as well as the philosophy of delivering shareholder value.

No fucking way.

Maury determined that this was a lie.

All of it is. Or pushing copilot into all Microsoft products like anyone is using this shit.

This is the danger of Ai that Elon Musk and Sam Altman warned us about.

lol. I mean. It was inevitable considering every other shit meta product.

No.

As someone that’s spent over a decade working in US healthcare, I can easily say it’s exhausting for everyone involved. It’s busy work. Especially if you are not providing direct care. Everything else is extractive fluff that makes cost of care more expensive, burdensome, and just dumb. And now with VC companies wading into healthcare everything is becoming even more expensive, even more dumb, and greedy.

And the costs for their shit products are astronomical.

Not to mention that Tableau is an awful product that will only continue to get worse.

They’re completely out of ideas.

I finally feel in control of my life and not emotionally beholden to someone who takes advantage of my kindness and refuses to do their part to make things work. I am now a lot more financially strained but I am so much more at peace. It’s been eye opening for me. I am glad I left. I’m hoping my kiddo also sees the difference in me.