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  • (Edited title, see details for original) Here's why you're getting enshittified...

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  • The irony

    How so?

  • TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

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  • Trump's dream of building a ballroom at the White House is becoming a reality

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  • Don't worry, there's a backup plan...

  • World's oldest baby is born in the United States

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  • From the makers of Oldboy (2013) comes... Oldbaby.

  • (Edited title, see details for original) Here's why you're getting enshittified...

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  • That's wonderful! It's good to diminish the amount of enshittification you experience in your life!

    Enshittification, writ large, goes on regardless. The point of the essay is that avoiding it in your personal life is good (if sometimes tiresome, depending on the specifics of your life) and you should totally do that, but the root causes of enshittification can be defeated by organized collective action.

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  • he should try not starting with belittling people's efforts that they can do in there individual lives of which doesn't preclude anything they can do communally

    “Do all this! Do more! You’ll make your life somewhat better, and in some cases, much better.”

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  • Valve nor the Canadian government started either of those efforts, but they helped signal-boost and take concrete supportive actions when they see that even a small group of people independently have supported that change already.

    It's nice when that happens, when big-money players take notice of grass-roots movements and push forward their agendas. Pretty rare, though.

  • (Edited title, see details for original) Here's why you're getting enshittified...

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  • “Do all this! Do more! You’ll make your life somewhat better, and in some cases, much better.”

  • (Edited title, see details for original) Here's why you're getting enshittified...

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  • The great news is that he's on Mastodon, if you'd like to reach out: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

    He might care a little about distributed services.

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  • First, it looks like this may be a dressed up advertisement for their newly released book:

    To be fair, this is a web archive of Cory Doctorow's email newsletter, normally sent to a self-selecting audience that expects to see Cory try to sell us his stuff. But also, as the coiner of "enshittification" this is a subject he's been examining for many years.

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  • I’m not going to bankrupt them, but I’m not helping them.

    That's good!

    If you ever want to step up to hurting them, you'll probably need to party up.

  • (Edited title, see details for original) Here's why you're getting enshittified...

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  • Defeatism will get us nowhere.

    I agree! And, I think the linked essay agrees, also? I mean the last sentence literally says, "You can't fight enshittification. But together, we can."

    That sounds very different than, "Acceptance of or resignation to the prospect of defeat. Acceptance of the inevitability of defeat. Acceptance of defeat without struggle."

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  • Well, it's Cory Doctorow doing the saying.

    But in my own opinion, boycotts work for products and services that you pay for; personally refusing to use services that rely on money from other business, less so. The #DeleteFacebook movement has existed since at least 2017. Twitter loudly hemorrhaged users after the Musk buyout. "DeGoogle" has been a thing since 2006. Small business, progressives, and others have been advocating boycotting Amazon for over a decade... and yet they all still exist, they are all still bad actors, and show no signs of getting any better.

    The people who have left those services are better off, and that's good -- better than good! But these corporate ogres haven't stopped destroying society because of it. They haven't even slowed down.

    To look at it another way: ALL of these corpos fear government regulation, especially in labor and fair business practices: You know that's true because they ALL spend billions fighting it tooth and nail.

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  • Far be it from me to defend a jumping-off point for discussion, but I didn't see anything in the essay saying that people shouldn't "do the right thing." Just the opposite, in fact ("Do all this! Do more! You'll make your life somewhat better, and in some cases, much better.")

  • Man, I love manga

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  • 3-koma?!! BUT HOW?!!

  • Open 24/7

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  • 3 of 7!

  • Freud's Tetris

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  • Wait 'til he plays "The Grand Master."

  • Open 24/7

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  • Have you signed up for 7 of Rewards? After 7 Slurpees the 11th one is free.

  • Starfleet runs on Miles (suffering)

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  • Who needs dilithium? I'll power the station! 😬