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The Enshittification Hall of Shame

Slashdot 06 Feb 2025
In 2022, writer and activist Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification" to describe the gradual deterioration of a service or product ... Here's a summary of each thing mentioned in their report. Smart TVs ... Google's Voice Assistant (e.g., Nest Hubs).
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As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders

Ars Technica 05 Feb 2025
Two years ago, a Canadian writer named Cory Doctorow coined the phrase "enshittification" to describe the decay of online platforms ... Doctorow believes there are four basic forces that might constrain companies from getting worse.
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February Is Here for Lovers of New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books

Gizmodo 31 Jan 2025
Start turning pages on these 47 new releases from Edward Ashton, Heather Fawcett, James Rollins, Cory Doctorow, and many more ....
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This Week in Google 804: Big Potato

Twit TV 30 Jan 2025
Leo's AI Toys DeepSeek How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions Mark Zuckerberg post re ... It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic. Daily links from Cory Doctorow Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection Dr.
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Cory Doctorow Asks: Can Interoperability End 'Enshittification' and Fix Social Media?

Slashdot 26 Jan 2025
This weekend Cory Doctorow delved into "the two factors that make services terrible ... Doctorow argues that federated and "federatable" social media "disciplines enshittifiers" by freeing social media's captive audiences.
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New Law Would Allow AI to Replace Your Doctor, Prescribe Drugs

Futurism 25 Jan 2025
When it comes to AI outpatient care, you don't need to be Cory Doctorow to imagine a world of stratified healthcare — well, anymore than we already have — where the wealthiest among us have access to ...
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Why does it feel like everything's getting worse? There's a word for it

RNZ 21 Jan 2025
The word burst into our lives in 2023, thanks to author Cory Doctorow, and quickly became a favourite way to describe how once-great things inevitably go bad ... Doctorow, a renowned technology journalist ...
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The bright side of TikTok’s downfall

Vox 17 Jan 2025
In the words of the Cory Doctorow, who coined the term, enshittification is “how platforms die.
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You Can’t Outrun Spotify

New York Magazine 15 Jan 2025
As I write this, my “Home” tab is being dominated by an autoplaying tech-bro clip about artificial general intelligence, which Spotify has decided to shove in my face because it’s “trending.” It’s a ...
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There’s a reason why it feels like the internet has gone bad

CNN 13 Jan 2025
“enshittification.” The term, coined in 2022 by the author, journalist and activist Cory Doctorow, refers broadly to the deterioration of services (especially online) as a result of giant companies extracting maximum profits from their customers.
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This Week in Tech 1014: Just Say It's Capitalism

Twit TV 13 Jan 2025
See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location. Host. Leo Laporte. Guests. Nicholas De Leon, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Cory Doctorow ... Sponsors.
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Celebs and tech luminaries including Mark Ruffalo want to create a fully open social media ecosystem

Engadget 13 Jan 2025
Some of the big names behind this project include actor Mark Ruffalo, actor/director Alex Winter and sci-fi writer/journalist Cory Doctorow.
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Punk programmers and queer hackers expose Reagan-era tech corruption in Cory Doctorow's new novel, on ...

Boing Boing 08 Jan 2025
Cory Doctorow, my friend and longtime Boing Boing colleague, has a new Kickstarter campaign that has already raised over $46,000 ...
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Zuckerberg’s MAGA turn insulates Meta for a while. But the business has bigger problems

CNN 08 Jan 2025
That hits Zuckerberg where he lives, because he’s the biggest individual shareholder, says Cory Doctorow, a journalist, author and activist with the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?

The Observer 08 Jan 2025
I know, I know ... The internet is rapidly being overtaken by AI slop ... What Cory Doctorow memorably termed the gradual “enshittification” of the internet (the degradation of services in pursuit of relentless profit-seeking) is accelerating ... Share ... .

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