@kyleford I'm pretty sure this is what @pluralistic was talking about when he used the term Reverse Centaur. Now I'm picturing a world where people accomplish random inscrutable tasks in the real world dictated by AI slop bots and they have no way of knowing what they just did. Isn't this part of the plot of the Severance TV show? Please, don't create the Torment Nexus
#ReverseCentaur #enshittification #enshittocene #TormentNexus
This is the most dystopian thing I've seen all week, and I'm living in 2026 America so that's *saying something*
@kyleford I'm pretty sure this is what @pluralistic was talking about when he used the term Reverse Centaur. Now I'm picturing a world where people accomplish random inscrutable tasks in the real world dictated by AI slop bots and they have no way of knowing what they just did. Isn't this part of the plot of the Severance TV show? Please, don't create the Torment Nexus
#ReverseCentaur #enshittification #enshittocene #TormentNexus
Gelesen: Enshittification (2025) von Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic). Sehr lesenswert! Er erklärt anhand von Beispielen wie X, Amazon, TikTok, Meta und Apple, wie das Leben online immer schlimmer wird und was man dagegen tun kann.
#bookstagram #books #enshittification #enshittocene #bookstodon
Gelesen: Enshittification (2025) von Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic). Sehr lesenswert! Er erklärt anhand von Beispielen wie X, Amazon, TikTok, Meta und Apple, wie das Leben online immer schlimmer wird und was man dagegen tun kann.
#bookstagram #books #enshittification #enshittocene #bookstodon
from @pluralistic
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet#t=661
'If someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyways, YOU DONT HAVE TO KEEP FOLLOWING THEIR ORDERS' - when referring to American tariffs.
All the claps and cheers, EU seems done with American bullying.
Now hopefully Canadian leadership can see that and stop pandering to the dipshit dictator
#cdnpoli #Canada
You are a great coiner who coined #enshittification and #enshittocene .
Do you have a name for this new political coalition that you're talking about?
I'm looking for something short that drives the message home, something that could be spray painted on a wall.
Because I don't own a newspaper.
Great conversation between Jesse Brown of Canadaland and @pluralistic about Canada’s moment in the #enshittocene and what we might do about it.
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/1256-how-to-unshttify-canada-with-cory-doctorow/
Great conversation between Jesse Brown of Canadaland and @pluralistic about Canada’s moment in the #enshittocene and what we might do about it.
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/1256-how-to-unshttify-canada-with-cory-doctorow/
A central fact of *enshittification* is that the growth of quality-destroying, pocket-picking monopolists wasn't an accident, nor was it inevitable. Rather, named individuals, in living memory, advocated for and created pro-enshittificatory policies, ushering in the enshittocene.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/#invest-dont-acquire
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Learned a new word: Enshittocene.
@pluralistic what have you done.
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