Absolute Johannes factotum
- SCP-7821 (?)
- SCP-7821 is not a physical object but rather the financial crisis at Site-666, a secret organization's facility, caused by a sudden streak of bad luck affecting its director, Randall House, whose gambling normally funds the site. To fix this, the organization brings in SCP-181, a man named Gregory O'Callaghan who can steal luck from others, making him incredibly lucky while causing misfortune around him. They use SCP-181, codenamed "Ace King," to gamble at casinos and win money for the site. However, during one operation, SCP-181 encounters a powerful, god-like entity named Pantelina Tyche, who is revealed to be the true cause of the bad luck at Site-666. SCP-181 challenges her to a high-stakes poker game in a supernatural casino, and by cleverly manipulating her own luck-stealing abilities, he wins, forcing her to lift the curse on the site and leave Las Vegas. This success neutralizes SCP-7821, restoring Site-666's funding and allowing SCP-181 to become a permanent, valued member of the team.
- Enshittification (?)
- The article describes "enshittification" as a process where two-sided online platforms and services, initially offering high quality to attract users, gradually decline in quality. This degradation occurs in stages: first, they abuse users to benefit business customers, and then they abuse both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders, often leading to the platform's eventual decline or "death." This phenomenon, popularized by writer Cory Doctorow, is driven by the ease of altering how a platform distributes value and its position as an intermediary holding both buyers and sellers hostage, enabling it to extract an increasing share of value. The term has broadened to describe a general decline in quality across various services, not just tech platforms, and has been recognized as a word of the year by prominent dictionaries.