@cyberlyra @pluralistic
Last week was scifi ethics week for my social informatics students. I have a long tradition of having them study Doctorow's CC open materials at Craphound because they're very good and ... open. I've augmented that the last few years with examinations of Doctorow and numerous other scifi authors on the Fediverse, to examine how concepts of rights, humanity, augmentation are portrayed regarding recent events.

This time, one of my students encountered Doctorow's Mastodon page, full of poop emojis for the book drop, and visibly reeled in confusion. What was this prof getting the class into? I told them to do a web search for enshittification. What? Really? Okay. Open the Wikipedia article I said. They looked. Oh wow! This explains so much. Lights on.