I note that this interview is from Oct, so maybe @pluralistic has modified his view on this since then but ...

One of the few things I really dislike among Cory's regular talking points is the misrepresentation of Shoshana Zuboff and the makers of The Social Dilemma, as if they ascribe to DataFarmers the invention of a "mind control ray";

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/339-cory-doctorow-enshittification-is-not-inevitable

Some credulous, Kara Swisher style faux-critics may have made this claim, Zuboff and TSD didn't.

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#podcasts #TeamHuman

"... if you're aiming all your energy toward bitterness, and jealously, and I want to take people down, what does that lead to?"

#ArdenLeigh, 2025

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/343-arden-leigh-chasing-the-hungry-ghosts

That's an insightful question.

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"... I keep coming back to this feeling that we're existing on this very thin membrane over ... just an ocean of tears. And, I've got more courage to go there and touch it, but it's ... there's so much grief!"

#DouglasRushkoff ( @Rushkoff), 2025

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/331-liana-gillooly

#podcasts#TeamHuman

"By leaving politics out [of the psychedelics movement] we just got co-opted by the worst of the worst. Same with the net, it's like we followed John Barlow; 'governments stay away, we don't need you', and it's like 'oh no, the corporations took over'."

#DouglasRushkoff, 2025

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/331-liana-gillooly

Barlow was responding to the kind of wrongheaded attempts at net regulation we've seen so many times recently; link taxes, youth bans, etc.

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#podcasts #TeamHuman #JohnPerryBarlow

en realidad...
#nomads espacio sociocultural para verano.
#teamhuman #resiliencia
en #digital
https://matrix.to/#/@somosnomadas:matrix.org
#somosuno

A good summary of the 1990s internet commons, and maybe a warning for the online commons of the 2020s?

"Well, the Market hadn't figured out how to monetize it yet, and the commoners, for their part, didn't preemptively devise ways to protect the value they were creating."

#DavidBollier, 2025

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/320-david-bollier

#podcasts#TeamHuman #commons#TheMarket