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Mix Mistress Alice💄Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. ><a href="https://vimeo.com/1059798497" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/1059798497</a><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshitification</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/monopsonies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopsonies</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twiddling</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LockedUsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LockedUsers</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LockedSellers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LockedSellers</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/GAFAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GAFAM</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/lecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lecture</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination</a>#speech <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceCapitalism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/interoperability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interoperability</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#competition</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regulation</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkersPower</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigData</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/sellers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sellers</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/users" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#users</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechnoFeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechnoFeudalism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/employment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#employment</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ratings" class="mention hashtag" 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href="https://todon.eu/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DataBrokers</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AntitrustLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntitrustLaw</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechLayoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechLayoffs</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/RegulatoryCaptures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegulatoryCaptures</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechnologicalAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechnologicalAbuse</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/value" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#value</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/GiantPileOfShit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GiantPileOfShit</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechnicalMechanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechnicalMechanism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/rankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rankings</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unions</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/digitalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digitalisation</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/nursing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nursing</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speech</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/lecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lecture</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#video</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/coporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coporatocracy</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopoly</a>

bmThe effect of <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twiddling</a> puts us up-and-coming writers in a dilemma that we didn't ask to be put in. We would like that qualitative feedback that Doctorow talks about, but our audience is a zygote that only divides based on a chain of arbitrary whims.12/

bmThis audience generator, this lottery/gacha/"market logic," is called <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twiddling</a>. It's not a fair game. I urge you, with every fibre of my being, to listen to this excerpt from a talk <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> gave at DEF CON 32 last year about <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshittification</a>:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8&t=878s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8&t=878s</a>11/

JW Prince of CPH, Radicalized<a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Nonilex</a> If properly constructed, such regulation could also ban "surge pricing" & all the other price <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twiddling</a> bullsh*t everyone is trying to roll out - or already perpetrating - right now, like raising prices if they have data showing that this particular customer just got paid, or their biometrics show that the customer is in a hurry, or hungry etc. It's incredibly predatory & definitely fits the descriptor of "price gouging" & it's likely to be obscured by tech; it needs to be hit hard.

Cory DoctorowI call this "<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twiddling</a>" - turning the knobs to continuously adjust the business logic that the firm operates on:<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/</a>Twiddling is everywhere, and it is only possible because "it's not a crime if we use an app" has been accepted by (captured) regulators. Think of Amazon's <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/PricingParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PricingParadox</a>, where deceptive search results - which Amazon makes $38b/year on - allow the company to *offer* lower prices, but *charge* higher ones:<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens</a>23/

Cory DoctorowI call this process "<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twiddling</a>": tech platforms are equipped with a million knobs on their back-ends, and platform operators can endlessly twiddle those knobs, altering the business logic from moment to moment, turning the system into an endlessly shifting quagmire where neither users nor business customers can ever be sure whether they're getting a fair deal:<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/</a>5/

Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉<a href="https://x0f.org/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoryDoctorow</a> talked in 3 episodes of 'On The Media' podcast about <a href="https://x0f.org/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a> and, unsurprisingly, it was enjoyable to hear Cory talk about it. The links are to the full show, but Cory was only on in the last part of each show. And you'll learn about other awesome words like <a href="https://x0f.org/tags/SurveillanceLag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceLag</a> and <a href="https://x0f.org/tags/Twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twiddling</a> 😁 Part 1: <a href="https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm050523_cms1323478_pod.mp3/otm050523_cms1323478_pod.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_d1f604e55d3c73f74ff0d946247c8ec2_50569272.mp3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm050523_cms1323478_pod.mp3/otm050523_cms1323478_pod.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_d1f604e55d3c73f74ff0d946247c8ec2_50569272.mp3</a>Part 2: <a href="https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm051223_cms1325774_pod.mp3/otm051223_cms1325774_pod.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_fb25f5cdd4249541bd0367bb14cc006a_51599266.mp3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm051223_cms1325774_pod.mp3/otm051223_cms1325774_pod.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_fb25f5cdd4249541bd0367bb14cc006a_51599266.mp3</a>Part 3: <a href="https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm051923_cms1327710_pod2.mp3/otm051923_cms1327710_pod2.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_b553074145b6377ee4a6fc1dcfd628b9_50268834.mp3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm051923_cms1327710_pod2.mp3/otm051923_cms1327710_pod2.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_b553074145b6377ee4a6fc1dcfd628b9_50268834.mp3</a>

Cory DoctorowPlatformism is the same as conservativism: "in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/FrankWilhoit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FrankWilhoit</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twiddling</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/SelectiveDisruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SelectiveDisruption</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/RIPPowerVentures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RIPPowerVentures</a><a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980</a>

Cory DoctorowEnshittification isn't synonomous with "fraud," "price gouging" or "wage theft." Enshittification is intrinsically digital, because moving all those goodies around requires the flexibility that comes with a *digital* businesses. <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JeffBezos</a>, grocer, can't rapidly change the price of eggs at <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/WholeFoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WholeFoods</a> without an army of kids with pricing guns on roller-skates. Jeff Bezos, grocer, can change the price of eggs on <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/AmazonFresh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmazonFresh</a> just by <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twiddling</a> a knob on the service's back-end.3/

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