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A better link: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/ https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-comput... Unfortunately
by squarefoot 3y ago
A better link:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/ https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-comput...
Unfortunately BoingBoing has slowly become enshittified itself; they also deleted my account for no reason while I was hospitalized for nearly 2 months, then when I came back home noticed that the ad-rticles where they sell overpriced low quality products (seriously, get better suppliers!) don't permit user comments anymore, presumably because some inevitably pointed to better and cheaper products. I recall thinking "ok, they went the IMDB way". IMDB once had a very active user comments sections, but when fake movie ratings, mostly by shills, became a thing, users started to expose them in comments, so what was IMDB response? Remove user comments, naturally.
- brookst 3y agoBoingBoing is the worst of the worst enshittification. All of the problems that the theory predicts, plus a sanctimonious tone like they're somehow above all that. They've become the annoying religious proselytizers who show up unsolicited, and are drunk to boot.
- flir 3y agoA few years back they were one of the big voices sounding the alarm about electronic voting. Now, according to them, that's an alt-right conspiracy theory. Not gonna lie, that annoyed me.
- kam 3y agoThey stopped sounding the alarm because they largely won that battle: The previous electronic voting machines everyone objected to had no paper trail and there was no way to verify that they were trustworthy. Modern electronic voting systems count paper ballots, and a recount can verify them by hand.
- mandmandam 3y agoRiiight. That's probably why we stopped doing exit polls, after many double digit discrepancies in 2016.
- bitwize 3y ago[flagged]
- leashless 3y agoPerhaps this Boing Boing situation is part of what inspired Doctorow to the enshittification insight!
- inhumantsar 3y agoExcept he was one of the key people behind it until a couple of years ago
- boomboomsubban 3y agoPresumably he left for a reason.
- mcv 3y agoIt is weird that a platform that he was a big part of and that supposedly supports his values, has apparently turned into they used to oppose. But I've got to admit I stopped reading BoingBoing a couple of years ago.
- brookst 3y agoI think its the classic “you become what you fight” thing. They got disillusioned and frustrated fighting agains all of the evils from disillusioned and frustrated people.
- SideburnsOfDoom 3y agoAnd you'll find some of it as audio read by the author on his podcast. On various feeds: https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_447 https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_447 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means/id81294582?i=1000623120314 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-internet-con-how-t... https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/podcast-cory-doctorows-craphou-169342/episodes/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-181510112 https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/podcast-cory-doctorows-cr... https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/88849f30-39ce-012e-11bd-00163e1b201c https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/88849f30-39ce-012e-11b...
- dang 3y agoOk, we changed to that from https://boingboing.net/2023/08/02/cory-doctorows-new-book-on-beating-big-tech-at-its-own-game.html https://boingboing.net/2023/08/02/cory-doctorows-new-book-on.... Thanks!