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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening

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Because libraries are one of the few places you can go and be inside and spent large amounts of time without paying for anything or having to have a membership, librarians ----- LIBRARIANS! ---- are now being threatened, having to do medical interventions, dealing with the homeless etc ....

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On social media, Mychal Threets was spreading the gospel of “library joy” to hundreds of thousands of followers.

Known for his energetic delivery and signature Afro, Mr. Threets showed off the book-themed tattoos covering his arms and evangelized about the pleasure of reading while cradling one of his cats. Viewers found his enthusiasm for literature infectious, and he got a kick out of drawing in young readers.

But at his job, as a supervisor at the Fairfield Civic Center Library in Solano County, Calif., he was facing new challenges. The library, which he had begun visiting as a child, had become a gathering place for people experiencing issues like homelessness, drug dependence and mental illness.

Some of his duties had little to do with cataloging books and recommending titles. Over a year, Mr. Threets said, he filed more than 170 incident reports documenting how library patrons had acted out: property damage, harassment, physical altercations.

“There were several instances where people would get in my face and kind of threaten to physically push me,” Mr. Threets said. At one point, he added, a patron threatened to kill him multiple times — visitors pulled knives on each other, too.

His anxiety and depression, both present since childhood, had worsened. And he faced an impossible dilemma: What do you do when the pressures of your profession are harming your mental health?

In March, at age 34, he left the job, announcing his departure on social media in a characteristically upbeat way. “It’s been the honor of my life to work for the library that raised me,” he said.



https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/well/mind/librarian-trauma-homeless-drugs-mental-illness.html

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Brisketexan
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3.  Shaggybevo.  Truly the most enshittened enterprise in intergoogles history. Literally a scat site. How you left that off the list, I'll never understand.

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so i've been meaning to make a post about this. i've likened it the great chiseling. i think that's where we are. i feel like everything described in this thread is very true and depressing

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Buddy is a local librarian. Cool dude, always has great book recommendations. He dreads going to work. He hates summertime.  He is ready to quit.

Constantly harassed.

Drug use in the library.

Multiple fights

Last month there was a stabbing in the library

He was told he needed to get more advanced First Aid training. His comment was "if I wanted to be a social worker or EMT I would have studied that."

 

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Validation... yay?

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

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We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow wrote earlier this year.

In 2023, Doctorow coined the word “enshittification”, which has just been crowned Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year. The dictionary defined the word as follows.

“The gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.”

Social media users, if they don’t know the word, will viscerally understand the concept, the way trolls and extremists and bullshitters and the criminally vacuous have overtaken the platforms.

 

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Pretty sure the first recorded case of enshittification is what happened to Shaggy Bevo.  It was brought down by trademark bullshit and every subsequent iteration has been worse and worse.

I didn't think it was trademark - the university didn't take the site down because of the "Bevo" in the name. It was because the former owner made a shit business deal with a scumbag and got fucked over after the fact.

The site was lost because the shitty business deal person successfully argued in court to a judge that shaggy was worth $350,000, based on Blacklab saying it was worth "tree fiddy" on a reddit AMA

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5 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I didn't think it was trademark - the university didn't take the site down because of the "Bevo" in the name. It was because the former owner made a shit business deal with a scumbag and got fucked over after the fact.

The site was lost because the shitty business deal person successfully argued in court to a judge that shaggy was worth $350,000, based on Blacklab saying it was worth "tree fiddy" on a reddit AMA

We did have to change it to shaggytexas because of a lawsuit from the university though. 

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Just now, TwiceHorn said:

Well just curious how hair-trigger they are on trademark issues.  I have pretty mixed feelings about over-aggressive use of trademarks.

I have an outstanding working relationship with them now. It has more to do with that and who's toes you stepped on than them being a bully. 

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They never sued but did say if I didn’t sign and return the docs they sent they were going to sue the next day. 
 

I did have a decent chance at defending but it wasn’t worth the money or time to defend. 
 

Pussy

(Sarcasm for those who don't know it's obvious) 

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6 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Just type in a Google search for "Pussy".  I'd also turn the filters off so you get the best meme's and GIF's back.

Trust me.  I know stuff.

 

Luckily, Google blurred out all the images when I was doing my first search. Life comes at you hard and fast.

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On 11/24/2024 at 12:26 PM, InkaUtexas said:

Buddy is a local librarian. Cool dude, always has great book recommendations. He dreads going to work. He hates summertime.  He is ready to quit.

Constantly harassed.

Drug use in the library.

Multiple fights

Last month there was a stabbing in the library

He was told he needed to get more advanced First Aid training. His comment was "if I wanted to be a social worker or EMT I would have studied that."

 

The lessons of the tragedy of the commons are everywhere. Paradoxically, maintaining a useable and pleasant public space will always mean you have to keep a very small part of the public out. Otherwise it becomes a place for only them. 

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30 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The lessons of the tragedy of the commons are everywhere. Paradoxically, maintaining a useable and pleasant public space will always mean you have to keep a very small part of the public out. Otherwise it becomes a place for only them. 

A very compact way of putting it.  Nicely done.

Also, it's why places like Facebook, Surly, and (once upon a time) Twitter have/had policies for user conduct.  Once a turd slips into the punchbowl, then the whole thing is just shitpunch.

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Took this week off of work to fix some things around the house including a sagging porch roof since I’ve got family in town and they’ve offered to help with it. The nearest home improvement store that had a jack post in stock was Home Depot in Longview, over an hour drive away. Fuck it, whatever. Place the order for pickup.

Two hours later I get an email that the order has been cancelled because the 7 that they showed in stock are suddenly not. No phone call, offer to order it to the store or have it delivered. I go online to order the jack post for delivery by today. When it arrives, both box ends are damaged and the bolts and threaded screw to adjust the height are missing. Called Home Depot to ask for a replacement sent expedited. Their response was, “We don’t do replacements or expedited shipping. You can return this one to the store, and place a new order if you need a replacement.”  I go online to order a new one but it won’t arrive until later this weekend when my help has already left.
So now, I’m returning this one to the local HD store but keeping the baseplates and one of the poles. When the new one arrives, I’m returning it but keeping the other pole, the bolts and the threaded screw and telling them it arrived damaged again. Fuck these guys and their non-existent customer service.
I’m getting myself a free jack post for this hassle.

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11 minutes ago, Chilly Water said:

Took this week off of work to fix some things around the house including a sagging porch roof since I’ve got family in town and they’ve offered to help with it. The nearest home improvement store that had a jack post in stock was Home Depot in Longview, over an hour drive away. Fuck it, whatever. Place the order for pickup.

Two hours later I get an email that the order has been cancelled because the 7 that they showed in stock are suddenly not. No phone call, offer to order it to the store or have it delivered. I go online to order the jack post for delivery by today. When it arrives, both box ends are damaged and the bolts and threaded screw to adjust the height are missing. Called Home Depot to ask for a replacement sent expedited. Their response was, “We don’t do replacements or expedited shipping. You can return this one to the store, and place a new order if you need a replacement.”  I go online to order a new one but it won’t arrive until later this weekend when my help has already left.
So now, I’m returning this one to the local HD store but keeping the baseplates and one of the poles. When the new one arrives, I’m returning it but keeping the other pole, the bolts and the threaded screw and telling them it arrived damaged again. Fuck these guys and their non-existent customer service.
I’m getting myself a free jack post for this hassle.

Perfect example.  Consumers end up gaming the business's system because the business's system games them.  It becomes a ratcheting upward game of fuckery.  NEITHER side should start it.  But here we are.  Where "no, fuck you, HD" is the only rational response.  

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