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This week on my #podcast, I read #Twiddler, a recent @Medium column in which I delve more deeply into #enshittification, and how it is a pathology of digital platforms, distinct from the rent-seeking of the analog world that preceded it:

doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9… 1/ A mandala made from a knob and button-covered control panel.
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Enshittification, you'll recall, is the lifecycle of the online platform: first, the platform allocates #surpluses to end-users; then, once users are locked in, those surpluses are taken away and given to business-customers. 3/
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The DoJ's antitrust lawsuit against #Google triggered an avalanche of pearl-clutching editorials from establishment lawyers and economists who argue that such a move is both counterproductive and legally incoherent. 1/ 'What a Funny Little Government,' Horace Taylor's 1899 edito
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These Very Bad Takes are only to be expected, since they emanate from ideologues who volunteered to serve as Renfields for vampiric monopolists. 3/
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Netflix wants to chop down your family tree; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/02/non…

#Pluralistic 1/ A Victorian family tree tem...
From Feb 8-17, I'll be in #Australia, touring my book #ChokepointCapitalism with my co-author, Rebecca Giblin. We'll be in #Brisbane, #Melbourne, #Sydney and #Canberra, and I hope to see you!

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Netflix wants to chop down your family tree: The enshittification cycle comes for your most private domain.

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