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molosovsky 🐿✊💗<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://norden.social/@wackJackle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wackJackle</span></a></span> I wo. Die ›Innovation‹ von Jeff Penis und Co sieht so aus:</p><p>»Chokepoint Capitalism« (2022) von <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/RebeccaGiblin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RebeccaGiblin</span></a> und <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://literatur.social/@molosovsky/111732268848714397" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">literatur.social/@molosovsky/1</span><span class="invisible">11732268848714397</span></a></p>
Andy Piper<p>Last night, a friend and I took part in the weekly quiz at a local pub. We were a bit stuck for a team name, and ended up hitting on the (we thought amusing) name “The Enshittiification Continues”. </p><p>At the end of the first round, as he always does, the quiz master came around to collect the team name – the bar staff then got to vote on the best / most amusing one, and that team got a packet of crisps (!) and an extra point. </p><p>So, we gave him the name – and he said he did not get the reference. We then attempted to explain the concept. That’s in spite of “enshittification” being a Word of the Year <em>somewhere in the world</em> in both <a href="https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2023</a> and in <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-26/macquarie-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2024/104648884" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2024</a>. </p><p>Being in tech, and an avid reader of <a href="https://craphound.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cory Doctorow’s work</a> (mostly on the non-fiction side, but I’ve dipped into some of the fiction stuff too), of course, it’s a term I’m very familiar with. Last night’s experience was another reminder of the remarkably tiny interest and social bubbles in which we exist.</p><p>… our team name was not even listed as one of those that got any kind of attention from the bar staff, and we lost out on that much sought-after (!!) packet of crisps.</p><p>… we did, however, come second overall when the scores were totalled up, which was pretty impressive considering there were only two of us, and at least 14 out of 60 questions were sports-related (although we did nail 17/20 of the movie round, so there’s that). Hurrah!</p><blockquote><p>Shout-out to the man Ash that runs that weekly quiz, he’s nice guy, and doesn’t get a ton of support from the venue, we appreciate him when we’re there!</p></blockquote> <p>In semi-related news, the fancy Nokē smart padlock1 that I was gifted as a birthday present ~10 years ago is the latest victim of capitalism and tech eating themselves. </p><p>Arrived home on Friday night to discover that the rarely-used gadget had been used to lock up a delivery, but that since I hadn’t used the app for months, Apple had kindly uninstalled it from my phone. The only problem was that I then could not log back in to my account in the app. A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/1gr192z/seeking_others_affected_by_discontinued_noke/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reddit search later</a>, and also a grep through the depths of my email – the company was sold to another one last year, the servers taken down, and the promised “transfer of function” to the new company’s app was never actually communicated to customers. Fortunately, a day later I was able to use the failsafe mechanism to unlock it (having already sourced a potential loan of an angle grinder). </p><p>My appeal to a support email address to resolve the issue has been ignored, but “rewarded” (!!!) by apparently immediately being added to the marketing email list for the new company, as yesterday I received a junk message. 🤬</p><p>Needless to say: the enshittification does, in fact, continue; and I am <em>very</em> annoyed about it.</p> <ol><li>I know… technology may not always be an ideal solution to every problem. It <em>was</em> a very nice gift, though, and it was good while it lasted. ↩︎</li></ol><p><a href="https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/02/18/the-enshittification-continues/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/02/18/the-enshittification-continues/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/100daystooffload/" target="_blank">#100DaysToOffload</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/complaining/" target="_blank">#complaining</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/cory-doctorow/" target="_blank">#coryDoctorow</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/enshittification/" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/quiz/" target="_blank">#quiz</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a></p>
Adrian Segar<p>Content versus conversation. Cory Doctorow said, "Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about." I agree!</p><p><a href="https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/03/content-versus-conversation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">conferencesthatwork.com/index.</span><span class="invisible">php/uncategorized/2010/03/content-versus-conversation</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meetings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meetings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EventDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EventDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>content</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/versus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>versus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conversation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conversation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eventprofs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eventprofs</span></a></p>
Red<p>There are only a handful of activists whose work gives me real hope that an international labor movement for economic, social justice is on the horizon, and two of them talk here:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4LM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4L</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organizing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YanisVaroufakis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YanisVaroufakis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneralStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralStrike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Arnd Layer<p>Great talk with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YannisVaroufakis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YannisVaroufakis</span></a></p><p>My personal highlight was when the standardization of office file formats was discussed as I was involved in that in 2006 and 2007.</p><p><a href="https://pca.st/episode/7e000efc-df59-4419-b348-988610722389" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pca.st/episode/7e000efc-df59-4</span><span class="invisible">419-b348-988610722389</span></a></p>
molosovsky 🐿✊💗<p><a href="https://literatur.social/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> und <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/YanisVaroufakis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YanisVaroufakis</span></a> in einem neuen Jacobin-Gespräch nehm ich gern mit auf Spaziergang.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/xkIDep7Z4LM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/live/xkIDep7Z4LM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
knizer<p>Fri-Sun - SF convention <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Boskone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boskone</span></a> is this weekend - free reading by <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> tonight boskone.org/<br><a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boston</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a><br><a href="https://toot.boston/tags/BostonWeekend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BostonWeekend</span></a> 3/x</p>
Mark Carrigan<p><strong>Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification</strong></p><p>After the US election in November 2024 there was a significant movement of users from Elon Musk’s X platform, which had been <a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/11/26/twitter-x-has-ceased-to-be-a-neutral-platform-its-time-academics-let-go/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">deployed politically</a> by an owner now explicitly affiliated to a candidate. There’s a risk of overstating the size of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/15/x-bluesky-social-media-platforms" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">exodus</a>, given that at the time of writing Bluesky has <a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/how-and-why-to-join-bluesky-which-now-has-30-million-users-as-a-twitter-alternative/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">30 million users</a> compared to what clearly remains a much bigger userbase on X, even if it is difficult to trust their reported numbers given Musk’s vested interest in repudiating a narrative of decline. Even so there are now thriving communities on Bluesky engaged in patterns of interaction which are eerily reminiscent of the early years of. For many academics this has clearly been a relief following the changes imposed on Twitter/X over the last two years. Even if I remain sceptical about the future of Bluesky, for reasons I will explain below, it’s hard not to be touched by the goodwill which pervades the platform, at least if you are wired into the academic networks who are now so enthusiastically using it.&nbsp;</p><p>So why did it take academics so long to leave X? In asking the question I realise that I’m interrogating my own motivations for remaining there until after the election. I found myself using the platform ever less frequently, eventually not logging on for months at a time, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to delete the account. In part this was because I was conscious that my university valued markers of public engagement, which a social media account with almost 10k followers constituted even if I rarely posted on there. It feels slightly awkward to explain that I was driven by the <em>appearance </em>of social capital to remain on a platform which I felt increasingly hostile to. For other academics it was the <em>reality</em> of the social capital which left them bound into remaining on X, even if they felt increasing uncomfortable with the culture of the platform and the user experience associated with it. If you built up a following on Twitter/X then leaving it unilaterally meant that you would lose your place within that network, missing out on the appearance and reality of visibility which can feel so significant in an <a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/04/07/life-in-the-accelerated-academy-carrigan/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">anxious sector</a> into a state of political and economic crisis.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>In my case a prominent <a href="http://www.markcarrigan.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">academic blog</a>, sites where I was a regular guest blogger and a popular Linked account meant I was less concerned about losing my connections. In fact I was in the strange position of being engaged in a slow multiyear project of shrinking my online network, having become one of the most visible sociologists on Twitter during my PhD, <a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/12/06/why-ive-deleted-my-twitter-account-exhaustionrebellion-by-mark-carrigan/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in support of my own wellbeing</a>. I felt I had the platform that I wanted but I was concerned about that platform being legible to my employers in a manner they would value. Ultimately I’m not sure it matters whether it’s the connections themselves or the appearance of them which leads academics to remain committed to a social media platform. The fact our working lives are now mediated in this way is what’s really significant, such that our professional fortunes are now tied up in our use of platforms (see for example <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-021-00269-x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the role of the impact agenda in the UK</a>) which once seemed like liberating spaces free of the strategic conduct which defined university life.&nbsp;</p><p>This is why it’s not a simple matter for academics to move between platforms. At root these are issues posed by <em>switching </em>costs. What are the costs incurred when you move between platforms? To the extent a platform operates as a walled garden, a closed ecosystem controlled by a particular firm, there will be costs imposed on users who want to leave. Not only are the large platforms aware of this dynamic, they have actively built their strategy around it. For example in <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3035-the-internet-con?srsltid=AfmBOoqmUiTk7DD-ZN_9QsRdrTQPBbOSAq_iwmbsjE8YN4_ViEQ8aXtq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a recent book</a> Cory Doctorow reflects on how the threat posed by Google’s nascent social network Google+ was perceived by Facebook, including correspondence from an executive which revealed a confident stance:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>“[<em>P]eople who are big fans of G+ are having a hard time convincing their friends to participate because 1/there isn’t [sic] yet a meaningful differentiator from Facebook and 2/ switching costs would be high due to friend density on Facebook.”</em></p><p>Since Google+ ceased operating in 2019, eight years after launch, this executive’s confidence seems well founded in retrospect. This wasn’t simply a neutral observation about how the platforms had developed but rather a reflection of a deliberate policy to maximise switching costs, relying on mechanisms like photos to keep users locked into the platform. If you deliberately make it an ordeal for users to switch to another platform you fortify your own position at the cost of user experience. This reveals, as Doctorow puts it, “a company that is thoroughly uninterested in being better than its competitors – rather, they’re dedicated to ensuring that leaving Facebook behind is so punishing and unpleasant that people stay, <em>even if they hate Facebook</em>”.&nbsp;</p><p>Bluesky is distinctive because it is built on a protocol intended to mitigate this problem. The <a href="https://atproto.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AT Protocol</a> describes itself as “an open, decentralized network for building social applications”. It actually emerged from a project incubated within Twitter from 2019 onwards, reflecting former CEO Jack Dorsey’s interest in a decentralised approach to social media.&nbsp;The problem is that, as Cory Doctorow <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">points out</a>, “A federatable service isn’t a federated one”. The intention to create a platform which users can leave at will, without losing their social connections, does not mean users can <em>actually</em> do this. It’s a technical possibility tied to an organisational promise, rather than a federated structure which enables people to move between services if they become frustrated by Bluesky. The promise to make it easy for users to exit in future is nothing more than a promise, unless there is a pathway to implementation.&nbsp;</p><p>This might not feel like a problem for a platform in this early stage but we must consider where it might be heading. What happens when investors start to pressure Bluesky to increase engagement on the platform? What happens when a certain level of user growth becomes a non-negotiable condition for funding? The reason other social media platforms turned out the way they did is not due to the malign influence of bad actors (though clearly they didn’t help) but rather due to the strategic logic of building a mass commercial social media platform. If you need it to operate at scale, you design it in ways which shape user behaviour to this end, even if that wasn’t the vision which initially animated the platform. Musk pursued this logic in a particularly aggressive and politically partisan manner. In doing so he gave license to others within the digital elite to shift their public profile, as can seen in the <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/mark-zuckerberg-wardrobe-facebook-maga-trump?srsltid=AfmBOopkzM0sdKV0tqXVf64PexajAkbWlTCer2soZ4fy1WDj0l24BIDe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">political repositioning of Mark Zuckerberg in the last month</a> following a longer term rebranding exercise which laid the groundwork. He did not however create the logic he was following, instead confronting an operating environment in which the uncertain economic model of the opening phase&nbsp;mutated into something very different, once the <a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2023/02/26/thank-you-for-using-web-2-0-your-free-trial-period-has-ended/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">free trial period</a> was over.&nbsp;</p><p>The fact Bluesky has staff with patently good intention and the firm itself is a public benefit corporation doesn’t provide us with grounds to assume they will evade this trend, at least if they want to build a commercially viable business. The problem is that, <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">as Doctorow observes</a>, “The more effort we put into making Bluesky and Threads good, the more we tempt their managers to break their promises and never open up a federation”. If you were a venture capitalist putting many millions into Bluesky in the hope of an eventual profit, how you feel about designing the service in a way that reduces exit costs to near zero? This would <a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-02-ulysses-pact-tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast-b2f89bb5b4d8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mean that</a> “An owner who makes a bad call – like removing the block function say, or opting every user into AI training – will lose a <em>lot </em>of users”. The developing social media landscape being tied in the Generative AI bubble means this example in particular is one we need to take extremely seriously.&nbsp;</p><p>I could be wrong. It’s certainly a <a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/11/26/twitter-x-has-ceased-to-be-a-neutral-platform-its-time-academics-let-go/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">much better place for academics to be</a> than Elon Musk’s X. It would be a mistake to <em>assume</em> it will stay that way, given the forces likely to drive <a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/12/16/the-enshittification-of-enshittification/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">enshittification</a>. It’s illuminating to compare this (partial) academic migration to Bluesky to the failed migration to Mastodon, analysed by <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.04005v2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wang, Koneru and Rajtmajer</a>. While there was an “initial surge in sign-ups” following Musk’s takeover, this “did not translate into sustained long-term user engagement” because “the level of established history, as well as the strong communities established on Twitter, with some over a decade, proved too significant to overcome”. If it’s the community which holds academics in place, it raises the question of how we might better coordinate that community in future, recognising social media as the <a href="https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-views-of-the-uk-2023-2-twitter-thread/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vital part of the research infrastructure</a> which it has become. The tendency has been to see <a href="https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/social-media-for-academics/book261904" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">social media for academics</a> as a trivial feature of professional life, whereas in reality it is now central to how academic networks form and reproduce.&nbsp;</p><p>It can be difficult to recognise this significance because it’s far upstream from specific collaborations but the things which academics do together (empirical research, scholarly communication, public engagement etc) now frequently feature social media in their origin stories, even if not necessarily in a central role. Even though it’s become a routine feature of academic life it’s still treated as a purely individual matter, in terms of choices, training and regulation. There’s little sense of strategic purpose concerning social media as a form of digital infrastructure upon which research collaboration depends, which leaves the sector precariously outsourcing it to unpredictable private corporations. We’ve seen how badly this can work out in recent years with Twitter/X. Could we respond in a more organised and effective way to future waves of platform enshittification? I hope so but it would require universities, as well as sector-wide organisations such as funding councils and learned societies, to recognise and take a stance in relation to these issues in a way they have thus far failed to do.&nbsp;</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/academic-networks/" target="_blank">#academicNetworks</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/bluesky/" target="_blank">#BlueSKy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/cory-doctorow/" target="_blank">#coryDoctorow</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/elon-musk/" target="_blank">#elonMusk</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/enshittification/" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/mastodon/" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/platforms/" target="_blank">#platforms</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/research-comms/" target="_blank">#researchComms</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/social-media-for-academics-2/" target="_blank">#socialMediaForAcademics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/twitter/" target="_blank">#twitter</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/x/" target="_blank">#X</a></p>
CorentinQ<p>Livre bien reçu, merci <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@hervelc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hervelc</span></a></span> </p><p>Y'a plus qu'à maintenant.</p><p><a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/livres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>livres</span></a> <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/corydoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corydoctorow</span></a> <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/cetfeditions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cetfeditions</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"National Democratic Party ... did some very good work as [Justin] Trudeau's coalition partner. They made him do a bunch of stuff he wouldn't have done otherwise, like universal dental care ..."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span>), 2025</p><p><a href="https://craphound.com/overclocked/2025/02/09/mlms-are-the-mirror-world-version-of-community-organizing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">craphound.com/overclocked/2025</span><span class="invisible">/02/09/mlms-are-the-mirror-world-version-of-community-organizing/</span></a></p><p>(1/?)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NDP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/JustinTrudeau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JustinTrudeau</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DentalCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DentalCare</span></a></p>
Tuckers Nuts Resist! 😈<p>🥥 Why is there never a Luigi around when you need one?<br />&quot;The crimes that monsters commit in the name of ideology pale in comparison to the crimes the wealthy commit for money.&quot; --Cory Doctorow<br />Doctorow lays out the criminal nature of private equity companies and the Nazi-era corporate roots in their DNA. <br /><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plu</span><span class="invisible">nderers/#farben</span></a><br />🥥<br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PrivateEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PrivateEquity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Luigi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Luigi</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuckersBalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuckersBalls</span></a></p>
Tuckers Nuts Resist! 😈<p>🥥 Here&#39;s a link to a Cory Doctorow article in which he lays out in detail how private equity works and how it&#39;s the nearest thing to legalized theft and fraud other than Musk&#39;s continuing illegal raid of the US government:<br /><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plu</span><span class="invisible">nderers/#farben</span></a><br />🥥<br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PrivateEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PrivateEquity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Theft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Theft</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fraud</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuckersBalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuckersBalls</span></a></p>
Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a></p><p>"Two years ago, a Canadian writer named Cory Doctorow coined the phrase 'enshittification' to describe the decay of online platforms. The word immediately set the Internet ablaze, as it captured the growing malaise regarding how almost everything about the web seemed to be getting worse.</p><p>(. . .)</p><p>Doctorow believes there are four basic forces that might constrain companies from getting worse: competition, regulation, self-help, and tech workers. One by one, he says, these constraints have been eroded as large corporations squeeze the Internet and its denizens for dollars.</p><p>If you want a real-world, literal example of enshittification, let's look at actual poop. When Diapers.com refused Amazon’s acquisition offer, Amazon lit $100 million on fire, selling diapers way below cost for months, until Diapers.com folded. With another competitor tossed aside, Amazon was then free to sell diapers at its price from wherever it wanted to source them.</p><p>Anyway, we at Ars have covered a lot of things that have been enshittified. Here are some of the worst examples we've come across. Hopefully, you'll share some of your own experiences in the comments. We might even do a follow-up story based on those."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/as-internet-enshittification-marches-on-here-are-some-of-the-worst-offenders/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">2/as-internet-enshittification-marches-on-here-are-some-of-the-worst-offenders/</span></a></p>
Watson<p>Canadian writer, activist, and tech critic to log in as System Crash's first-ever guest host: Cory Doctorow (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span>). Brian Merchant and Cory examine Elon Musk’s campaign of governmental destruction in Washington DC, how <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> will continue to unfold in 2025, and what, if any, hope there is for us, the humans and the users.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corydoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corydoctorow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialweb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <br><a href="https://youtu.be/zEZPa-YzaUs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/zEZPa-YzaUs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
PrivacyDigest<p>As Internet <a href="https://mas.to/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> marches on, here are some of the worst offenders<br> <br>Two years ago, a Canadian writer named <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> coined the phrase "enshittification" to describe the decay of online platforms. The word immediately set the Internet ablaze, as it captured the growing malaise regarding how almost everything about the web seemed to be getting worse.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/as-internet-enshittification-marches-on-here-are-some-of-the-worst-offenders/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">2/as-internet-enshittification-marches-on-here-are-some-of-the-worst-offenders/</span></a></p>
lps<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@gurgle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gurgle</span></a></span> <a href="https://mograph.social/tags/corydoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corydoctorow</span></a> for <a href="https://mograph.social/tags/primeminister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>primeminister</span></a> we need you now more than ever:)</p>
Jamie T<p>For anyone interested, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> will be doing a talk at the Media School at Indiana University on March 7th 4pm EST! It's free and you can register for the talk here! <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/corydoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corydoctorow</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <br><a href="https://events.iu.edu/mediaiub/event/1783095-with-great-power-came-no-responsibility-how-enshitti" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">events.iu.edu/mediaiub/event/1</span><span class="invisible">783095-with-great-power-came-no-responsibility-how-enshitti</span></a></p>
der Technokrat<p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Pluralistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pluralistic</span></a>: A sexy, skinny defeat device for your <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/HP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HP</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/printer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printer</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/inkcartridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inkcartridge</span></a> (30 Sep 2024) <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/life-finds-a-way/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/lif</span><span class="invisible">e-finds-a-way/</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a></p>
Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@HorizonMass" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>HorizonMass</span></a></span> Thanks for sharing this <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> interview! Quoting one of many great paragraphs:</p><blockquote><p>“We can reverse those policy choices. Technology is not fully cooked. In the beginning of the neoliberal era, in the era of Margaret Thatcher, she was famous for saying this phrase, 'There is no alternative,' which is capitalism-ese for 'Resistance is futile.' Of course there are alternatives. I think that despair is our worst enemy. People that are angry about technology are actually angry about a kind of monopolism, and a set of policy choices. The same forces that allowed cartels to destroy computing are also the forces that allowed them to raise the price of eggs, the price of gasoline, and to make container ships bigger and bigger until one of them blocked the Suez Canal.”</p></blockquote>
datum (n=1)<p>"in 2017, the pilots' union for American Airlines forced their bosses into a raise. Wall Street freaked out and tanked AA's stock. Analysts for big banks were outraged. Citi's Kevin Crissey summed up the situation perfectly, in a fuming memo: "This is frustrating. Labor is being paid first again. Shareholders get leftovers":" [1]</p><p>[1] <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/29/which-side-are-you-on-2/#strike-three-yer-out" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/01/29/whi</span><span class="invisible">ch-side-are-you-on-2/#strike-three-yer-out</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/prices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prices</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a></p>