bees will push balls around just for the hell of it - they trained the bees to push the balls and then took the rewards away and gave them unlimited pollen and sucrose and the bees kept going back to the balls. they just wanted to mess around

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6639406

Things I Wish Somebody Told Me Before I Founded My SaaS

yeah agreed. I don't think Cory Doctorow is right about everything but I think he was dead on with enshittification

I was on tiktok in 2019/2020 and for a brief period it was just ordinary users messing around and posting whatever they felt like. No tiktok shop, very few ads or thinkpieces, nobody was trying to build an audience. A lot weirder and a lot more fun

Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks