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.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes (12 Apr 2023)

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Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes: Twiddled to death through algorithmic wage discrimination.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023)

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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
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