Oh Kottke. How I missed you when you were on hiatius a while back. In November Jason posted this link. The link goes to a fantastic article at Talking Points Memo.
Go on, read it. It's insightful. Private Equity Firms are buying up all sorts of businesses and enshittifying them. It's not just new outlets. Funeral parlours, local malls, small businesses. Even fucking dentists are not safe. It's crazy to think that your dentist could be shut down because it missed it's numbers or as this article described, it's more profitable to shutter it. Where does that leave everyone who needs braces, dentures, or a tooth extracted? My brain immediately went to Johnny Silverhand and his disdain for "Corpos". Science Fiction could have been a warning, not a roadmap.
Regardless, it is what it is. I don't have a solution, I'm screaming into the void. Maybe more local support is needed. Let's get off Social Media and into Real Life™. I know it's going to be painful. I know it is going to suck. I've lived with the breakup from Social Media. I still access it, it's only a little bit more inconvenient now to find out what's going on, and a lot more convenient to get off when you don't have an account.