Again, this is not the original, but I seem to recall seeing it in the late 90s.

And this was definitely 90s.

Whoever has been left as its leadership is a dumbass.

Not in the slightest. More likely their annual bonus depends on boosting revenue right now. So they’re incentivised to generate short term increases in revenue but not for longer term. Plus, also, if/when Youtube goes tits up they’ll just get a different CEOing job (with “increased revenue by 25% in 2024 on their resume”) rinse and repeat.

Kind of my point. We gained ecommerce, streaming services, platforms such as this one, online gaming, mapping services, and others - at the cost of the freedoms for which people are nostalgic. And now we have ads, personalization, tracking, and inevitable enshitification.

Back in the days of the wild frontier things were chaotic, anarchic, violent, and unconstrained.

Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road

And now we’re all fenced in, regulated, allowed to wander only in approved lanes… oh, wait, sorry, we’re talking about the internet, not real life!

Me. Sigh.

Goldman Sachs is overhyped and unreliable.

I’m anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have read such pericombobulation.

You’d say what with the what now?

Musk also told staff that he would ask for the resignation of any executive “who retains more than three people who don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test.”

Pssst. Elon. You’re not any of those three things.

Pfffft. The AI couldn’t even fly its plane the right way up.

I miss Windows 3.11.

“The intent is to provide drivers with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heated seat configurations.”