Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (08 Dec 2023)

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"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing": When Big Content makes the paid version *worse* than the free one.
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Pluralistic: The moral injury of having your work enshittified (25 Nov 2023)

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The moral injury of having your work enshittified: I missed my mother's funeral for this?
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Pluralistic: Don't Be Evil (22 Nov 2023)

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Don't Be Evil: My new Locus Column.
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot (09 Nov 2023)

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The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot: Firms undisciplined by competition, regulation, or self-help measures.
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Pluralistic: Amazon is a ripoff (06 Nov 2023)

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Amazon is a ripoff: New Amazon paradox just dropped.
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Pluralistic: Big Tech's "attention rents" (03 Nov 2023)

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Big Tech's "attention rents": Enshittification comes out of the barrel of an algorithm.
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Pluralistic: Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit (30 Oct 2023)

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Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit: $46.5 billion incinerated and he's richer than ever.
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Pluralistic: Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA (26 Oct 2023)

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Amazon Alexa is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Microincentives and Enshittification" (24 Oct 2023)

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Podcasting "Microincentives and Enshittification": They’ve run out of lands to conquer and they’re taking it out on you.
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Pluralistic: Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic (14 Oct 2023)

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Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic: The brittle equilibrium of stage three enshittification.
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