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Too big to care: Enshittification is a choice.

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Cory Doctorow

2024-04-04 13:23:27

Remember the first time you used Google search? It was like magic. After years of progressively worsening search quality from Altavista and Yahoo, Google was literally stunning, a gateway to the very best things on the internet.

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Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List retractionwatch.com/the-retrac… (h/t Gregory Charlin)

* I am the Comic/Comic Book Walk kickstarter.com/projects/cecil…

* Capitalists Hate Capitalism locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doct…

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#15yrsago Why URL shorteners suck joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/o…

#15yrsago Heinlein’s house for sale web.archive.org/web/2009040610…

#15yrsago Game industry exec celebrates 60+ hour work-weeks web.archive.org/web/2009040513…

#15yrsago Nine year old’s survey project excluded from school because he learned some people don’t think of themselves as male or female thefourthvine.livejournal.com/…

#15yrsago Help save @bruces and Jasmina Tesanovic from US immigration hell! web.archive.org/web/2009040521…

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#15yrsago Pneumatic tube-based systems — the real series of tubes youtube.com/watch?v=MvSeL_Lfdb…

#15yrsago Berlusconi declares war on the press repubblica.it/2009/04/sezioni/…

#10yrsago Private equity, an infection that is eating the world web.archive.org/web/2014033000…

#10yrsago UK Tories call for a national of slaves antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…

#10yrsago Daniel Ellsberg to keynote HOPE X in NYC this summer 2600.com/content/daniel-ellsbe…

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#10yrsago Yahoo beefs up security in two meaningful and important ways eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/yaho…

#10yrsago The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation, a nuanced and moving history of race, slavery and the Civil War memex.craphound.com/2014/04/04…

#10yrsago Britain is turning into a country that can’t tell its terrorists from its journalists memex.craphound.com/2014/04/03…

#10yrsago Stop-and-frisk as the most visible element of deep, violent official American racism theatlantic.com/national/archi…

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#10yrsago David “Debt” Graeber evicted, implicates NYPD intelligence, claims revenge-harassment for OWS participation nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/…

#10yrsago Open net gets a huge boost in the EU: net neutrality and no roaming fees web.archive.org/web/2014040523…

#10yrsago Cats of Tanglewood Forest: illustrated modern folktale from Charles de Lint and Charles Vess memex.craphound.com/2014/04/03…

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#10yrsago House Science Committee: a parliament of Creationists, Climate Deniers (and dunces) scientificamerican.com/blog/th…

#10yrsago Big Data has big problems ft.com/content/21a6e7d8-b479-1…

#5yrsago 540 million Facebook users’ data exposed by third party developers upguard.com/breaches/facebook-…

#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren proposes holding execs criminally liable for scams and data breaches washingtonpost.com/opinions/el…

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#5yrsago How @eff's @evacide plans to destroy the stalkerware industry wired.com/story/eva-galperin-s…

#5yrsago After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn’t block open source implementations, Google says it won’t support open source implementations memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03…

#5yrsago After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn’t require filters, top EU Commissioner says “Article 13 requires filters” memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03…

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#5yrsago Notices at Intel press event seem to say attending photographers must assign copyright to all pictures and videos to the company? web.archive.org/web/2020061622…

#5yrsago Patagonia tells banks and oil companies that they can no longer buy co-branded vests buzzfeednews.com/article/katie…

#5yrsago Talking about Radicalized with the CBC: Privilege, atavism, techno-realism and seizing the means of information cbc.ca/books/cory-doctorow-on-…

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#5yrsago News organizations have all but abandoned their archives memex.craphound.com/2019/04/04…

#5yrsago After Christchurch shooting, Australia doubles down on being stampeded into catastrophically stupid tech laws memex.craphound.com/2019/04/04…

#5yrsago A rapidly proliferating software license bars use by companies with poor labor practices wired.com/story/how-github-hel…

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#5yrsago “Open source” companies are playing games with licensing to sneak in proprietary code, freeze out competitors, fight enclosure scalevp.com/insights/making-se…

#5yrsago Fear that far-right terrorists will stage attacks if Brexit is canceled theintercept.com/2019/04/04/sp…

#1yrago Elizabeth Warren on weaponized budget models pluralistic.net/2023/04/04/cbo…

#1yrago The problem with economic models pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all…

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Monday's threads: Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2024-04-02 14:25:27

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/cap…

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My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

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Both are national bestsellers!

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The Lost Cause HB

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Upcoming appearances:

* Computer Pasts/Computer Futures (NYU/virtual), Apr 4
steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/dean…

* UCLA Institute for Law, Technology and Policy, Apr 10
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* The Bezzle at Harvard Berkman-Klein Center, with Randall Munroe (Boston), Apr 11
cyber.harvard.edu/events/enshi…

* RISD Debates in AI (Providence), Apr 12
involved.risd.edu/event/977796…

* The Bezzle at Anderson's Books (Chicago), Apr 17
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Torino Tech Biennale, Apr 21
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* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
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* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Festival, May 5-11
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* “Enshittification” and the Future of AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
oreilly.com/live-events/tim-or…

* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (San Francisco), May 17
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
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* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
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Recent appearances:

* The Scam Economy (Lost Dollar Business Club)
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* Private Prisons, Finance Ghouls and The Bezzle (It Could Happen Here)
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* Cory Doctorow’s new tech crime thriller takes us back to the days of Yahoo! (Betakit)
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me in Boston with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then Providence (Apr 12) and beyond!

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pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi A demon from Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. It has a bulbous, tick-like body and the legs of a hoofed animal. Its ass is open, revealing a hollow space within, populated by other demons.

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