The digital savant on ‘enshittification,’ how ‘twiddlers’ secretly rip us off, powering down Big Tech and more. A Tyee interview.
Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification
It seems that we’ve had a rash of formerly loved internet services going down the enshittification curve. As coined (brilliantly) by Cory Doctorow, enshittification is the process by which a compan…
Cory Doctorow Predicts the AI Bubble Will Burst | The Tyee
The writer sees a shaky future for a technology that has many of us in a lather.
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification, with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel
Beneath The Enshittification, Something Amazing Is Growing
Last month Terry Godier published a great essay on his website about “the boring internet,” discussing how the internet that many of us grew up with, the wonderful, empowering, exciting…
What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants
Tech's market concentration—summed up brilliantly by Tom Eastman, a New Zealand software developer, as the transformation of the Internet into "a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four"—has aroused concern from regulators around the world.
AI, I tried to love you – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
Among my peers who study the cultures and economies surrounding technology, I often find myself more tech-positive than most. On the whole I like computers, like the internet, and like in general the emergent human creativity that these things have enabled and revealed. A source of my appreciation is that I expend a lot of effort on the practice of “slow computing,” which is to say, choosing tools and technical communities that I can feel in right relationship with. I tend to approach new socio-technologies (like gig economies, blockchains, and social media) not from a perspective of why is this so bad? so much as asking how could we do this right?
An Open Letter to Cory Doctorow: Ollama is part of the enshittification!
A response to Cory Doctorow's defense of generative AI, examining the contradictions in supporting Ollama while championing open source principles, and an …
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
Who Fixes the Internet? the Autistici.org Case and the Invisible Work Keeping Internet Open Controversie (IT) · Keep the Internet free
Who fixes the Internet? The autistici.org case and the invisible work keeping Internet open - Anna Pisterzi for Controversie (Italian)
Shirky: In Praise of Evolvable Systems
Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source, and Genetics As Information Science
Really feels like the open Internet is falling apart, with bsky as a rare bright spot.
Ashton Pittman
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