Google's enshittification memos (pluralistic.net)
Interesting read on economics, commodification, and search results gradually getting worse...
Pluralistic: Cloudburst (03 August 2023) (pluralistic.net)
Enshittification isn't inevitable: under different conditions and constraints, the old, good internet could have given way to a new, good internet. Enshittification is the result of specific policy choices: encouraging monopolies; enabling high-speed, digital shell games; and blocking interoperability.
Forcing your computer to rat you out (pluralistic.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2757988...
Why They're Smearing Lina Khan. (pluralistic.net)
Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) (pluralistic.net)
Pluralistic: The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant (17 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
Looking forward to reading the book someday.
Amazon illegally interferes with an historic UK warehouse election (pluralistic.net)
Rosemary Kirstein's "The Steerswoman" (review by Cory Doctorow and reflections on the publishing world) (pluralistic.net)
Boeing’s deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage (pluralistic.net)
The seductive, science fictional power of spreadsheets (pluralistic.net)
This has a lot in common with science fiction, a genre full of thought experiments that ask Heinlein's famous three questions:...
Pluralistic: Precaratize bosses (19 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
Pluralistic: Humans are not perfectly vigilant (01 Apr 2024) (pluralistic.net)
Pluralistic: Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell (15 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
Pluralistic: The CHIPS Act treats the symptoms, but not the causes (pluralistic.net)
Pluralistic: Apple to EU: “Go fuck yourself” (06 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
How I got scammed [by Cory Doctorow] (pluralistic.net)
Un'intelligenza artificiale può fare il tuo lavoro, ma il tuo capo può essere indotto a licenziarti e a sostituirti con un bot che non riesce a fare il tuo lavoro. (pluralistic.net) Italian
Questa è una vecchia storia tecnologica: avevo un amico a cui era stato affidato lo streaming live di uno spettacolo di premiazione canadese agli albori del web. Hanno prenotato più linee ISDN da Bell Canada e hanno allestito un’imponente stazione di codifica Mbone sulle quinte del palco. Solo un problema: gli ISDN si sono...
"...apart from a smattering of Rust programmers, the main residue of crypto is bad digital art and worse Austrian economics" (pluralistic.net)
Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a monopoly horror-story (pluralistic.net)
Pluralistic: Sympathy for the spammer (15 Jan 2024) (pluralistic.net)
Pluralistic: Tech workers and gig workers need each other (13 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
How the NYPD defeated bodycams (pluralistic.net)
Cory Doctorow on "Adversarial interoperability" (pluralistic.net)
[ang] "Jeśli kupując nie wchodzisz w posiadanie, to piracąc nie kradniesz" - Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
Cory Doctorow pisze o DRM-ach i tym, że to nie najważniejsza w uniemożliwianiu napraw nie jest technologia (którą można analizować / badać) tylko prawo, które zabrania tego badania. I ogólnie o tym całym bajzlu zamykania technologii przez producentów, jak to ostatnio widzieliśmy w przypadku wyłączania pociągów....