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A huge, menacing demon holds a hand-tinted old-timey urchin in a clawed hand, looking at him with malign fascination. The background is a Matrix credits reel-style 'code waterfall.' In the foreground are various figures attending to control panels associated with the era of electromechanical computers. The demon's eyes have been replaced with the menacing red eyes of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 03:13:43 UTC Cory Doctorow's linkblog

There's one overwhelmingly common mistake that people make about enshittification: assuming that the contagion is the result of the Great Forces of History, or that it is the inevitable end-point of any kind of for-profit online world.
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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/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/#rewilding-the-internet
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