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: 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: How Google's trial secrecy lets it control the coverage; The Lost Cause prologue, part III (09 Oct 2023)

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How Google's trial secrecy lets it control the coverage: You got it wrong, but we won't tell you how.
The Lost Cause prologue, part III: Going viral in the free world.
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Pluralistic: Google's enshittification memos (03 Oct 2023)

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Google's enshittification memos: Truly, Big Tech can't stop telling on itself.
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Pluralistic: How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California (14 Sept 2023)

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How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California: Hot labor summer was just for openers.
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Pluralistic: Saturday linkdump, part the sixth (09 Sept 2023)

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Saturday linkdump, part the sixth: The new digital disorder.
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Pluralistic: Forcing your computer to rat you out (02 August 2023)

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Forcing your computer to rat you out: Self determination starts with the right to decide who can know which facts about you.
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Microincentives and Enshittification

How the Curse of Bigness wrecked Google Search.

A clip from a Jenga ad showing a dad knocking over the Jenga tower.

It’s hard to convey just how revolutionary Google Search was when it debuted in 1998. It blew rivals — from AskJeeves and Altavista to Yahoo — out of the water. It was so good, it was almost spooky, surfacing the best of the web with just a few clicks.

Today, Google owns the search market, controlling more than 90 percent of searches. Its worth hovers in the trillion-dollar range, and it employs some 180,000 people in offices all over the world. Almost every online journey we take starts with a Google search.

And here’s the thing: Google Search suuuuucks.

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Pluralistic: Autoenshittification (24 July 2023)

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Autoenshittification: How the computer killed capitalism.
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