This is kind of an incredible website:
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This is kind of an incredible website:
Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
@davidho This is US based although it covers some European brands. However, note that some European brands sold in the US are made under licence.
Just a note to people that the fediverse is worldwide. Perhaps mentioning the country that an article deals with would be helpful to others.
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@unchartedworlds @davidho I recall people pointing out the LLM use when it launched. Author works in LLMs I believe too. I don't trust it either. Plenty of other places to learn about how private equity destroyed good products.
@kzodasnowman @unchartedworlds @davidho author works at palantir, and yeah the blog is LLM slop
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This is kind of an incredible website:
Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
@davidho Thanks for sharing! Just subscribed to updates.
Edit: Disappointed to learn this is AI-generated. Hopefully the analysis itself holds up.
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This is kind of an incredible website:
Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
sadly no newsfeed… but only some shady newsletter thingy
one could say… its… worse on purpose?
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@unchartedworlds @davidho I recall people pointing out the LLM use when it launched. Author works in LLMs I believe too. I don't trust it either. Plenty of other places to learn about how private equity destroyed good products.
@kzodasnowman @unchartedworlds @davidho This rhymes with what I was hearing about the website two or three weeks ago.
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@kzodasnowman @unchartedworlds @davidho author works at palantir, and yeah the blog is LLM slop
@gray17 Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten that since I heard that months ago. Fuck every Palantir employee.
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This is kind of an incredible website:
Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
@davidho too bad basically all the text is written by AI.
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This is kind of an incredible website:
Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
@davidho if only it wasn't so Muricaaa
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This is kind of an incredible website:
Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
@davidho thanks for sharing!
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This is kind of an incredible website:
Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
@davidho
I read the one about Cookware and I can't tell if its #AIslop or not, but it was pretty alarming and the facts about all these company takeovers etc can be verified, I imagine.But what this particular article boils down to is that trusted high quality brands like Sabatier, Pyrex, Corning Wear, Tupperware are no longer made by the original companies or in the original countries.
New owners have cut corners to increase profits and as a result quality, safety and guarantees have been seriously diminished and eroded. But we are still paying high prices for the name we used to trust.
This seriously pissed me off, as I have trusted Sabatier and Pyrex in particular and bought them for myself and family for the past fifty years.
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This is kind of an incredible website:
Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
@davidho I read a few articles, and this is (badly, if at all) edited AI slop.
That makes me not trust the content either. (Which is also using fairly sensationalist language.)
The idea is great, but using enshittification to call out enshittification is ... ironic to borderline insulting.
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@kzodasnowman @unchartedworlds @davidho author works at palantir, and yeah the blog is LLM slop
Thanks!
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@kzodasnowman @unchartedworlds @davidho author works at palantir, and yeah the blog is LLM slop
@gray17 @kzodasnowman @unchartedworlds @davidho it's in his LinkedIn?
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Would be interested to know if the author is using LLM-assisted writing. It has a bit of that flavour to me, but maybe it's just their style.
@unchartedworlds @davidho Yeah. It seems to mostly consist of clickbaity repackaging of the articles it links to. It’s got little gems like “The steak and eggs at a diner in the Texas Panhandle and […] in northern Maine […] came off at the same pallet in the same distribution center” (that one is from the “food got worse” post, & seems to be an attempt at spicing up a line from The Nation’s article on Sysco). (1/3)
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This is kind of an incredible website:
Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
Dishwasher, agree on Bosch/Siemens, they only have cosmetic differences.
But stay away from Unreliable Smart features.Washing Machines, Miele beats all, I had to repair my near 30 year old miele some time ago.
Parts were not cheap but readily available.Fridge, I have one from Bosh Siemens, it has a design flaw, the condensation pipe runs to a motor evaporation tray, the whole pipe and tray thing fills with stinking mold and maggots.
That no matter how often I clean the crap.. -
This is kind of an incredible website:
Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
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@adamgreenfield oh damn
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@unchartedworlds @davidho I recall people pointing out the LLM use when it launched. Author works in LLMs I believe too. I don't trust it either. Plenty of other places to learn about how private equity destroyed good products.
@kzodasnowman @unchartedworlds @davidho Where can I find these other places? The connections it makes between products on shelves, corporate ownership, and product quality are information people wish they had better, easier access to.
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How certain are you that it's slop?
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookware-got-worse-on-purpose
Newell Brands bought Calphalon in 1998, promised nothing would change. It moved production to China, and closed the last American Calphalon plant outside Toledo at the end of 2023, 130 jobs.
There are a couple of bits of nonstandard grammar here that I wouldn't expect an #LLM to emit. Of course, it's possible that Sapp did the opposite of what many people do: got an LLM to write the article and then manually edited it for voice to disguise its origin. But I've not seen an LLM being as consistently critical of big companies as I've seen on this site; presumably the big #AI companies don't want to get sued.
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