David W. JonesDeliberate understaffing as enshittification
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Pluralistic: Catch this! (16 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Deadbeat Guitarist🇨🇦The internet has massively sucked for quite a while now. @pluralistic calls this Enshittification. Let's talk about it and some ways we can get around it. In this installment I talk about cutting the noise of the internet with an RSS Reader. https://deadbeatguitarist.ca/2026/01/13/fight-against-the-enshittification-of-the-internet-with-an-rss-reader/ #enshittification #rss #fluentreader #takebacktheinternet #rssguard #linux #news #coreydoctorow #rssreaders #bigtech #techbros #mastodon
bsmall2> What Kind of Bubble is AI, tech writer Corey Doctorow writes ‘Tech bubbles come in two varieties: The ones that leave something behind, and the ones that leave nothing behind. Sometimes, it can be hard to guess what kind of bubble you’re living through until it pops and you find out the hard way.’ Past manias, such as the 19th-century British railroad bubble at least left useful infrastructure. It is hard to see what other uses there can be for all these data centers.
#CoreyDoctorow #TechBubbles #BubbleInfrastructure #BubbbleNothing
#CoreyDoctorow #TechBubbles #BubbleInfrastructure #BubbbleNothing
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Have a good read about the AI bubble, courtesy of Corey Doctorow:
> ... what these platforms aspire to is their own demise.. It’s what Trump aspires to, to be in a world in which no one can tell him no and in which every bad idea that kind of materializes in the vacant spaces in his head becomes a policy. And so, you know, enshittification — enpoopification is the collapse of discipline. And America’s ruling class has managed to neutralize all the discipline that it ever faced. Their weirdest, worst ideas are the ones that we’re all stuck with.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/cory_doctorow
#CoreyDoctorow explains #JamesBuchanan economy
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/cory_doctorow
#CoreyDoctorow explains #JamesBuchanan economy
“Enshittification”: Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It
Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now! to discuss his new book Enshittification, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online platforms like Facebook degrade over time as companies seek to maximize profit at the expense of their users, and it has since become shorthand for describing a pervasive sense of dropping standards across various aspects of modern life. Enshittification is “the collapse of discipline,” says Doctorow. “America’s ruling class has managed to neutralize all the discipline that it ever faced. Their weirdest, worst ideas are the ones that we’re all stuck with.” Doctorow also elaborates on a point he makes in his book: “Donald Trump’s election represents the ultimate triumph of enshittification in the political realm.”
Pluralistic: Plenty of room at the bottom (of the tech stack) (29 Sep 2025)
And I've always called this "pushing my costs onto someone else", like pushing the cost of environmental damage caused by corporations onto society-at-large...
Pluralistic: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed (23 Aug 2025)