#Micron's decision to un-diversify their #RAM sales, and exclusively pursue sales the current #AI growth instead of the home, #gaming, and commercial #PC market is a dangerous move. I predict that when the #AIbubble pops, they will find themselves in a bad position to compete with #Hynix and #Ssmsung, which are still marketing their chips to non-AI end users, and not putting massive investments to keep up with the current demand.

It's also (obviously) very bad for the average person, regardless of what they use #computers for, that this is happening.

Will the short term profits outweigh the sudden loss of sales once the #bubble pops? No idea. But this kind of wild speculation-driven chaos in the #markets is exactly the reason support for #capitalism is at an all time low, as #afforfability worsens throughout the developed world due to #hyperfinancialization of basic goods.

#economics #economy #hardware

Now that Twitter is a Junkyard, I Need a Way to Deal with the Twitter Posts Cited on this Blog

“Live, ongoing connections to people – not your old posts or your identifiers – impose the highest switching costs for any social media service,” argues Cory Doctorow in a recent post. Well, yeah, but hear me out. 

http://lvgaldieri.com/2024/12/17/now-that-twitter-is-a-junkyard-i-need-a-way-to-deal-with-the-twitter-posts-cited-on-this-blog/

#collapse #enshittification #financialization #hyperfinancialization #mutualAid #socialCollapse #socialMedia #switchingCosts #Wordpress

It annoys me, the little things that hyper-financialization have done to the internet. Like this Deals bot that keeps showing up on every major server: no one is actually going to buy the things, but if the metric they are being paid on is number of clicks or places the link has been posted, that doesn't matter, because it's worth it to just have the stupid bot keep making accounts and spamming the network with posts.

It's not even useful work, it's not even selling any actual product, it's just filling the space with garbage and wasting moderator minutes.

At least we don't have a financial incentive here on #Fedi to be anything but hostile to that sort of behavior.

#Spam #Bot #bots #moderation #hyperfinancialization #Enshittification