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An Amazon AI chatbot that sums up the book you are reading while you are reading it. While trampling over the writer’s rights.
“Ask This Book."
“Your expert reading assistant, instantly answering questions about plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements without disrupting your reading flow.”
Enshittification is too polite a word for all this.
#Books #Bookstodon
#Enshittification #AI
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Kindle's New Gen AI-Powered "Ask This Book" Feature Raises Rights Concerns - Writer Beware
In a recent press release, Amazon noted that some new features were coming to Kindle. We’re adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle.Victoria Strauss (Writer Beware)
Star Trek : Atlantis
Wait! What?!!
A show that does not, never did, and is not likely to ever exist.
IMdb however has a stub for this show with a photo of a female captain in a TNG-era uniform sitting on a Galaxy class styled bridge.
It just came up while I was searching for the Starfleet Academy show that will premiere in January 2026.
There was never such a fan project that I am aware of.
So, my conclusion is that it’s an AI hallucination.
Am I missing something?
#StarTrek #StarGate #Atlantis #AISlop #enshittification #AI @zora @startrek
Star Trek Atlantis (TV Series) | Sci-Fi
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La sección Antitrust Under Trump del libro de @pluralistic #Enshittification sintetiza muy bien el significado de la famosa foto de los CEOs de las Big Tech en la ceremonia de inauguración de la legislatura de Trump.
Para los libros de historia del futuro será un momento clave de la colusión que produciría un cambio a peor de las condiciones económicas de las mayorías.
Examples:
Last update: The extension prompts you to update vault entries when you log in, even though the username and password you entered came from Bitwarden and don't need to be updated.
This update: They've broken the Addy.io username generator AGAIN.
Not surprising, I suppose: contributing.bitwarden.com/con…
Goddammit.
#enshittification
COMPETITION TIME ⏰
We're giving away a signed copy of Enshittification by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic!
Be in it with a chance to win it. Enter by 5 January ⬇️
For us fans he obviously doesn't say much we haven't heard before* - but it's still a wonderful hi-speed tour de force through the topic for newbies & normies & as such, enormously important exposure 🙌👍😊
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*I think I've stressed before the importance of hammering on the same message; it may not be news to Us™️ anymore but A. repetition begets recognition & B. those of us who already know are not the target audience.
I'm sure you've seen this doing the rounds on here, but if you have a minute (😂) check out #Enshittification by Cory Doctrow @pluralistic
He's basically describing your daily struggles!
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I’ve been following @pluralistic for a while, but I’ve never seen him interviewed. This was absolutely captivating. Truly. There were like fifteen bites I wanted to capture.
Cory is super smart. And his brain seems to work at the same speed my ADHD brain does, which helps me absorb what he’s saying.
(Pro tip: watch in DuckDuckGo, @invidious, or @FreeTube to avoid tracking.)
#Enshittification #SocialMedia #TheDailyShow #CoryDoctorow
Interview with @pluralistic at The Daily Show!With special mention for Mastodon! This was excellent! I highly recommend watching it!👇✨
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#Enshittification #Facebook #Mastodon #Fediverse #Interoperability
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Been listening to the #Enshittification audiobook while testing hard drives at work the last week or so; I'll probably finish it tomorrow.
This shouldn't surprise me anymore, but I remain impressed with @pluralistic's ability to a) walk through and explain esoteric bullshit I haven't wrapped my brain around, and b) get me to accidentally neglect the other stuff in my Work Media Queue for a couple of days.
#enshittification
Legende @pluralistic war zu Gast bei Ronny Chieng in der #DailyShow und sprach darüber, warum das Internet immer schlimmer wurde und was wir tun können, um es wieder besser zu machen.
💥 Why did the word ENSHITTIFICATION catch on?
Cory Doctorow thinks people like a little cussing — & the word captures in blunt terms how tech platforms make the web frustrating & hostile.
Want more? 🎧 Listen to the full episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
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@AuthorsAlliance #Enshittification #CoryDoctorow
Future Knowledge | Enshittification
The internet wasn’t ruined by accident—it was ruined on purpose. In this episode, Cory Doctorow joins us to break down enshittification, his term for the slow, deliberate process that transformed a...Future Knowledge
Was rather surprised to this morning when watching The Daily Show to see that @pluralistic was interviewed, by a huge fan in Ronny Chieng. Well done! Enshittification is the perfect topic for that audience to learn.
Full video of Cory Doctorow's @pluralistic virtuoso rendition of #enshittification on the Daily Show
"In the dual digital enclaves of tech advocacy and political justice, the hope was that the two would come together at some point and champion digital and economic freedom for everyone.
I feel, with the interview of Cory Doctorow on a Novara Media IRL downstream event, finally the good ideas have gravitated toward each other! "
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Really good interview with @pluralistic and #novaramedia one that reassures me that there is a possibility of a better future!
Interview with @pluralistic at The Daily Show! 
With special mention for Mastodon! This was excellent! I highly recommend watching it!👇✨
youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5n…
#Enshittification #Facebook #Mastodon #Fediverse #Interoperability
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Making a talk on #enshittification in two weeks (in Russian), gotta need all the @pluralistic 's talk recordings despite having read every one of his blog postson the topic :) So thanks @joeldn for sharing.
It's one thing to say "read so much I can basically explain it myself" and another to actually go and explain.
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Finally started geading #Enshittification by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic .
Interesting read putting rigor, facts and words on what we all feel as users and customers nowadays.
I can't wait to get to the solutions chapter though.
The Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Novara Media
'Enshittification' explained.Novara Media
Shoshana 🏳️⚧️ (@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt)
"Kohler can access data and pictures from toilet camera" It's amazing what passes for a totally normal sentence in 2025 https://varlogsimon.leaflet.pub/3m6zrw6k2bs2pShoshana 🏳️⚧️ (LGBTQIA+ and Tech)
I am quite sure that if you haven’t donated to @bonfire ‘s campaign yet it’s just because you did not know about it yet, so here is a link: indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonf… 🙂
In case you are not convinced yet, here’s a slide for you about (and against!) #Enshittification 💩
In this moment, I think every project that fights enshittification should deserve attention and support. I myself contributed, and got me an awesome print (limited edition number 19, which as y’all know is binary for 🤟😜)
Holy shit, is #Flock speedrunning to be the shittiest company of 2025?
I hate that so many #California municipalities jumped on the chance to spend taxpayer dollars on these shitty cameras.
“After 404 Media contacted Flock for comment, the exposed panel became no longer available. Flock then declined to comment.”
#ai #flock #surveillance #enshittification
“Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI”
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Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
's apt and dreamy call to arms:
We could be a disenshittification nation. We could seize the means of computation. We could have a new, good internet that respects our privacy and our wallets. We could make a goddamned fortune doing it.
pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/dis…
#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #disenshittification #enshittification
It turns out that a lot of "impossible" things are really just fights you'd rather not have.
@pluralistic nails it. pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/dis…
#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #enshittification #disenshittification
Sources of America’s Hidden Inflation
How market power jacks up prices, and how Trump’s policies add to the pressureRobert Kuttner (The American Prospect)
"The short version is that YouTube used AI to 'enhance' the videos of Rick Beato and Rhett Shull. YouTube used an AI smoothing filter that made the videos look like they were AI generated, and didn’t tell Beato, Shull, or their viewers that they were doing it. They only admitted to it after the two made videos proving it happened, later claiming it was only a 'limited test'.”
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#YouTube #MOLE #AI #enshittification
YouTube is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore.
I’ve made YouTube videos for ten years, but I can’t do it anymore. I can no longer tolerate the abhorrent things YouTube and Google have gotten up to in the ...Josh Griffiths
