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Andrés Cumsille
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Postdoc | Studying Microbial Interactions, Natural Products & BGCs
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📍Madison, WI
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The Rot Economy's digital tinnitus has ruined everything you love about tech - Search, mobile browsing, and social media to name a few. When growth is all that matters, the user experience only exists to promote growth, even if the experience sucks.

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After a coup by head of ads Prabhakar Raghavan in 2019, Google intentionally made search results worse as a means of increasing the amount of times that people would search for something on the site. Ever wonder why your workplace uses Sharepoint and other horrible Microsoft apps? That’s because Microsoft’s massive software monopoly meant that it was cheaper for your boss to buy all of it in one place, and thus its incentive is to make it good enough to convince your boss to sign up for all of their stuff rather than an app that makes your life easier or better. Why does every website feel different, and why do some crash randomly or make your phone burn your hand? It’s because every publisher has pumped their sites full of as much ad tracking software as possible as a means of monetizing every single user in as many ways as possible, helping ads follow you across the entire internet. And why does everybody need your email? Because your inbox is one of the few places that advertisers haven’t found a consistent way to penetrate. It’s digital tinnitus. It’s the pop-up from a shopping app that you downloaded to make one purchase, or the deceptive notification from Instagram that you have “new views” that doesn’t actually lead anywhere. It is the autoplaying video advertisement on your film review website. It is the repeated request for you to log back into a newspaper website that you logged into yesterday because everyone must pay and nothing must get through. It is the hundredth Black Friday sale you got from a company that you swear you unsubscribed from eight times, and perhaps even did, but there’s no real way to keep track. It’s the third time this year you’ve had to make a new password because another data breach happened and the company didn’t bother to encrypt it.
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
cumsille.bsky.social
You could see them with your bare eyes
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
cumsille.bsky.social
It does for me. I do enjoy it tbh
March 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
cumsille.bsky.social
Those are great news! Hope to see you there!
February 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
cumsille.bsky.social
Disappointed but not surprised of not seeing FL in that list
February 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM