the machines know how desperate you/we are (20260104)

I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The ‘Priority Fee’ and ‘Driver Benefit Fee’ go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. : confession

via a friend and HN. true or not, this is where #LateStageCapitalism takes us.

20260106 update … Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit - casey newton from platformer got the receipts and did the digging. the good news, this was a hoax post. the bad news, there’s AI in the mix here and this kind of spoofing is only going to get better and harder to detect. we’re eroding the credibility of everything from every angle and we all pretty much assume that we’re getting scr00d in the interests of tech shareholders.