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Re:Reflections on Palantir by red-iron-pine on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:33AM (#41869524)
> Doctorow is not one of the examples he provides, but I'm not sure that any of this negates the point.

lol what? Doctorow created "enshitification" to describe rent seeking and its behaviors, and has been creating a technocratic journalist vocab since the BoingBoing days.

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Re:Reflections on Palantir by BryantD on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:00PM (#41875741)
Yes, precisely.

The point is that we tend to think of jargon creators as particularly insightful when their biases/viewpoints match our own, and annoying when they don't.

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