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www.versobooks.com
On 6 January, at the New York Times Square Hotel, the 134-year-old American Dialect Society voted that 'Enshittification' should be named as the 'Digital Word of the Year' for 2023. The decision came after a vote, presided over by Ben Zimmer, chair of the ADS New Words Committee and language columnist for the Wall Stre |
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webrocker.de
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. [...] Tiktok, for all that its origins are in the quasi-capitalist Chinese economy, is just another paperclip-maximizing artificial colony organism that treats human beings as inconvenient gut flora. ... |
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frobertjacobs.wordpress.com
Tech speak coined by writer Cory Doctorow (http://craphound.com), that describes a kind of platform decay that occurs when companies put profit growth ahead of users' profit and growth. At first companies are good to their users. Then they abuse their users to make it better for their business customers. Then they abuse those business customers... |
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