Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket. Your car's digital infrastructure is a costly, dangerous nightmare - but for automakers in pursuit of postcapitalist utopia, it's a dream they can't give up on.
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https://www.autoevolution.com/news/desperate-times-companies-buy-washing-machines-just-to-rip-out-the-chips-187033.html
These digital systems are a huge problem for the car companies.
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Desperate Times: Companies Buy Washing Machines Just to Rip Out the Chips
autoevolutionCory Doctorow
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https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/quality-new-vehicles-us-declining-more-tech-use-study-shows-2023-06-22/
What's more, drivers *hate* all the digital bullshit, from the janky touchscreens to the shitty, wildly insecure apps.
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Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use, study shows
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https://www.theverge.com/23801545/car-infotainment-customer-satisifaction-survey-jd-power
Even the automakers sorta-kinda admit that this is a problem.
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People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars
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https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip-david-graeber/#rolling-surveillance-platforms
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Now, leftists have been predicting the death of capitalism since *The Communist Manifesto*, but even Marx and Engels warned us not to get too frisky: capitalism, they wrote, is endlessly creative, constantly reinventing itself, re-emerging from each crisis in a new form that is perfectly adapted to the post-crisis reality:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/books/review/a-spectre-haunting-china-mieville.html
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https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781847927279
Under capitalism, capital is the prime mover. The people who own and mobilize capital - the capitalists - organize the economy and take the lion's share of its returns.
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Technofeudalism
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"Rents" are income you get from owning something other people need to produce value. Think of renting out a house: not only do you get paid when someone lives there, you also get the benefit of rising property values, which are the result of the work that all the other homeowners, business owners, and residents do to make the neighborhood more valuable.
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Capitalist philosophers railed against rent. The "free market" of #AdamSmith wasn't a market that was free from regulation - it was a market free from *rents*.
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https://locusmag.com/2021/03/cory-doctorow-free-markets/
Today, we live in a rentier's paradise. People don't aspire to create value - they aspire to capture it.
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Cory Doctorow: Free Markets
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/13/collapse-porn/#collapse-porn
Don't drive a cab, create #Uber and extract value from every driver and rider. Better still: don't found Uber, invest in Uber options and extract value from the people who invest in Uber.
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This is your brain on the #FourHourWorkWeek, #PassiveIncome mind-virus. In *Techno Feudalism,* Varoufakis deftly describes how the new "#CloudCapital" has created a new generation of rentiers, and how they have become the richest, most powerful people in human history.
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/28/enshittification/#relentless-payola
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https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/02/big-river/#beemers
Not to be outdone, #Mercedes announced that they were going to rent you your car's *accelerator pedal*, charging an extra $1200/year to unlock a fully functional acceleration curve:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-subscription-faster-acceleration-feature-price
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Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a yearly $1,200 subscription
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But it's just for starters. Computers are *malleable*.
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https://doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9690cce6
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Twiddler - Cory Doctorow - Medium
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7enex/tool-shows-if-car-selling-data-privacy4cars-vehicle-privacy-report
Digitization supercharges financialization. It lets car-makers offer #subprime auto-loans to desperate, poor people and then killswitch their cars if they miss a payment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U2eDJnwz_s
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New Tool Shows if Your Car Might Be Tracking You, Selling Your Data
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/27/boricua/#looking-for-the-joke-with-a-microscope
Digitization also opens up more exotic options.
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https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/
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Tesla allegedly remotely unlocks Model 3 owner's car, uses smart summon to help repo agent - Alt Car news
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https://restofworld.org/2021/loans-that-hijack-your-phone-are-coming-to-india/
#Usurers have always relied on this kind of imaginative intimidation.
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Loans that hijack your phone are coming to India
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Thanks to the malleability of computerized systems, digital arm-breakers have an endless array of options they can deploy to motivate you into paying them first, no matter what it costs you:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/02/innovation-unlocks-markets/#digital-arm-breakers
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https://doctorow.medium.com/apples-cement-overshoes-329856288d13
It's in fuckin' *ventilators*, which was a nightmare during lockdown as hospital techs nursed their precious ventilators along by swapping parts from dead systems into serviceable ones:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3azv9b/why-repair-techs-are-hacking-ventilators-with-diy-dongles-from-poland
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Why Repair Techs Are Hacking Ventilators With DIY Dongles From Poland
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https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8
That wasn't a happy story - it was a cautionary tale.
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About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors - Cory Doctorow - Medium
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Control over repair isn't limited to gouging customers on parts and service. When a company gets to decide whether your device can be fixed, it can fuck you over in all *kinds* of ways.
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https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/letter-from-tim-cook-to-apple-investors/
By usurping your right to decide who fixes your phone, Apple gets to decide whether you can fix it, or whether you must replace it. Problem solved - and not just for Apple, but for car makers, tractor makers, ventilator makers and more.
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Letter from Tim Cook to Apple investors
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/yp73jw/apple-recycling-iphones-macbooks
John Deere isn't sleeping on this.
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Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/31/dealers-choice/#be-a-shame-if-something-were-to-happen-to-it
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https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/07/inky-wretches/#epson-salty
But we're also fighting against #InsulinPump makers, who want to turn people with #diabetes into walking inkjet printers:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/10/loopers/#hp-ification
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/08/chair-ish/#r2r
These companies start with people who have the least agency and social power and wreck their lives, then work their way up the privilege gradient, coming for everyone else. It's called the #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust
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But there's also a policy dimension here.
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https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/
IP is key to understanding the rise of technofeudalism.
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Cory Doctorow: IP
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/30/ring-minus-one/#drm-political-economy
For more than two decades, various would-be feudal lords and their court sorcerers have been pitching ways of doing this, of varying degrees of outlandishness.
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And there's a new remote attestation technology making the rounds: Google's #WebEnvironmentIntegrity, which will leverage Google's dominance over browsers to allow websites to block users who run ad-blockers:
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity
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GitHub - RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity
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Certainly agree with all of that.
Years went past and no change but very expensive machines to save you colour matching the stick after a minute.
PowerPoints and growing numbers meant CHANGE!
I call it diabetic disneyland now
Gauge-a-betic. It’s really one of those things that so spikey and vile. #NormaliseThatGreed.
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Hutterite colonies try to avoid modern things like music and the like. When I worked at a JD dealership, a Colony had all the radios removed from the new combines and tractors and they went in the Minister's safe. The workers bought 3rd party radios and tried to install them. Chaos ensued.
Removing the radios required a re-program of the machine along with a check and approval from JD. When the boys tried to install the 3rd party radios, the machines wouldn't start. They wouldn't even initialise the computer boot-up.
It was a month of diagnostics, back and forth with Deere and finally a workaround so that the equipment would run without the radio and sneakily run the 3rd party radios for the boys who weren't even supposed to have them in the first place.
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Owners of troubled VanMoof e-bikes get their software keys from rival company
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Winter Trabex
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•The Bite of Seattle festival, which happened this weekend, was bought by a financial payments startup and they inserted themselves between the provider and customer in a way that is so stupid it almost seems like parody. Their tag line should be "We made it worse on purpose because we want your money."
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/bite-of-seattle-attendees-fed-up-with-food-ordering-app-from-tech-startup/
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•Not only this will save your data, but it will also improve your health and the life on planet Earth.😄 🌏 🌱 🦒 🐨
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