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Tag: creative labor

Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023)


Today's links

  • Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.
  • Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
  • This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Continue reading "Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023)"

Author Cory DoctorowPosted on January 21, 2023February 1, 2023Tags algorithms exposed, big store con, bytedance, convincers, creative economy, creative labor, Emily Baker-White, enshittification, fauxtimation, forbes, giant teddy bears, pivot to video, potemkin ai, scissor bucket, surplus allocation, the algorithm, tiktok

Pluralistic: 17 Aug 2022: Chokepoint Capitalism Kickstarter is live


Today's links

  • Kickstarting the "Chokepoint Capitalism" audiobook: We wrote a book that Amazon won't sell.
  • Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
  • This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021.
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Continue reading "Pluralistic: 17 Aug 2022: Chokepoint Capitalism Kickstarter is live"

Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 17, 2022August 24, 2022Tags audiobooks, books, chokepoint capitalism, copyfight, copyright, creative labor, crowdfunding, gift guide, kickstarter, labor, monopoly, monopsony, rebecca giblin

Previous editions

  • Pluralistic: The Collective Intelligence Institute (07 Feb 2023)
  • Pluralistic: Bruce Schneier's "A Hacker's Mind" (06 Feb 2023)
  • Pluralistic: When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed (05 Feb 2023)
  • Pluralistic: Higher interest rates increase both the monetary supply and inflation (04 Feb 2023)
  • Pluralistic: Netflix wants to chop down your family tree (02 Feb 2023)
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