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thisishell.com
Cory Doctorow on his Financial Times article, "'Enshittification' is coming for absolutely everything: The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we've entered the 'enshittocene'?" "Rotten History" follows the interview. Cory also has a new novel, The Bezel. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon. |
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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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www.morelightmorelight.com
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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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