Cory Doctorow on Enshittification:
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: "It's a three stage process: First, platforms are good to their users; Then they abuse their users to make things better for the...
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- cory doctorow appears in 5 chunks across 5 episodes, from 2024-04-01 to 2026-03-30.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 4/1/24 (2024-04-01), with 1 observation on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with edge cas, combinatorial explosion, and smuggled infinity, while by chunk count it sits between black mirror and google doc; its yearly rank moved from #184 in 2024 to #160 in 2026.
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Cory Doctorow has an interesting thinking-persons' guide against AI.
Cory Doctorow has an interesting thinking-persons' guide against AI. A few nuggets: Centaur vs. Reverse Centaur: Machine-assisted humans (good) vs. humans as meat ...
Cory Doctorow asks if AI assistants can escape the enshittification trap.
Cory Doctorow asks if AI assistants can escape the enshittification trap. The answer is no, in my opinion. Going down the path of chatbots / LLM-as-friend / hyper-...
Cory Doctorow shared the story of a startup that is "Uber for Nursing."
Cory Doctorow shared the story of a startup that is "Uber for Nursing." The service buys the credit reports of nurses on the platform, and offers nurses who have d...
The metacrap fallacy is "If everyone would simply put things into the right bucket with the right metadata this would work!"
...ght bucket with the right metadata this would work!" The fallacy was defined by Cory Doctorow. A seemingly reasonable assumption that is secretly impossible. A smuggled infinity. Everything downstream of that assumption is also impossible. In ...