Heather W

“First, platforms are good to their users. Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers. Next, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Finally, they have become a giant pile of shit.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

“US lawmakers are torn between their voters’ concern over tech monopolization and their sense that these are American companies that act as a source of American soft power abroad and of national pride at home.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

“Goddamn autocrats. They really are hardly better than shit-stained children.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, A Drop of Corruption

“Information is abundant; attention is scarce. Information is theoretically infinite, while attention is constrained. This is why information is cheap and attention is expensive.”
― Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource