No, "convenience" isn't the problem: Enshittification isn't caused by "lazy consumers."

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Cory Doctorow

2024-04-12 13:05:31

Using Amazon, or Twitter, or Facebook, or Google, or Doordash, or Uber doesn't make you lazy. Platform capitalism isn't enshittifying because you made the wrong shopping choices.

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Pluralistic: No, “convenience” isn’t the problem (12 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/a-…

* A new bill would try to make tools like Zoom and Teams work together securely theverge.com/2024/4/8/24119268…

* Nobel Prize economist Angus Deaton rethinks unions, free trade, immigration businessinsider.com/nobel-priz… (h/t @thepublicdomain)

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#20yrsago Implicit ideology in video games reason.com/2004/04/01/free-pla…

#20yrsago BBC tries DRM-free distribution web.archive.org/web/2004042209…

#20yrsago Remembering gopher wired.com/2004/04/gopher-under…

#20yrsago MSFT pays $440MM to settle DRM patent dispute theregister.com/2004/04/12/ms_…

#15yrsago Billboards versus the attention economy: critical essay from 1960 web.archive.org/web/2009041405…

#15yrsago Statebook: how UK gov’t spooks see the Internet statebook.co.uk

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#15yrsago Manchester’s streets to be patrolled by CCTV cars that film you picking your nose at the wheel and then send you a fine news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/en…

#10yrsago Copy Me: a new critical animation series about copying, culture and copyright youtube.com/watch?v=62-UT84-fX…

#10yrsago Everything is a Remix vs Patent Trolls youtube.com/watch?v=Il9nXHoprs…

#5yrsago Foxconn’s inconsistent, chaotic behavior in Wisconsin looks awfully grifty theverge.com/2019/4/10/1829679…

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#5yrsago Victory! House of Reps passes legislation to restore Net Neutrality eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/vict…

#5yrsago Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent theappeal.org/chicago-electron…

#5yrsago Security keys are “transformative” and “revolutionary” for information security mrisher.medium.com/phishing-an…

#10yrsago RIP, Sue Townsend bbc.com/news/entertainment-art…

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#5yrsago Text-mining journalists find that lawmakers introduced 10,000 bills that were copypasted from lobbyists’ “model legislation” publicintegrity.org/politics/s…

#5yrsago Someone is targeting “critical infrastructure” safety systems in networked attacks arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago Courts and cops don’t know what to do with “sovereign citizens,” the delusional far-rightists who claim the law doesn’t apply to them youtube.com/watch?v=d_y-gLm9Hr…

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#5yrsago Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

#5yrsago Teen Vogue explains capitalism teenvogue.com/story/what-capit…

#5yrsago French officials call Project Gutenberg archive, 15 million ebooks, Grateful Dead recordings and Prelinger Archive “terrorism,” demands removal from Internet Archive techdirt.com/2019/04/11/eu-tel…

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#5yrsago Brexit is cratering London house prices bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

#1yrago Alissa Quart's 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream' pluralistic.net/2023/04/10/dec…

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Wednesday's threads: The unexpected upside of global monopoly capitalism; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2024-04-10 13:09:40

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The unexpected upside of global monopoly capitalism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/04/10/an-…

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* RISD Debates in AI (Providence), Apr 12
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* The Bezzle at Anderson's Books (Chicago), Apr 17
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* Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
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* The Bezzle at Book Passage (Corte Madera, Marin), Apr 27
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* Wordfest (Calgary), May 3
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* Massy Arts (Vancouver), May 4
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* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 5-11
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* “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
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* "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
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* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
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* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
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* The Scam Economy (Lost Dollar Business Club)
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