Status Updates From Enshittification: Why Every...

It's nice to confirm thatmy problem with Bibliophobia wasn't that I lost my ability to listen to nonfiction audiobooks, but that that particular nonfiction audiobook was really hard to listen to, and I do think the narration was largely at fault. In any case, both the information and the narration of Enshittification are fully maintaining my attention.

I do love the occasional shot fired. "But the reason Apple’s board picked Cook to replace cofounder Steve Jobs after he juice-cleansed his way into an early cancer death wasn’t Cook’s sunny disposition."

Either we make the platforms more powerful in hopes that they’ll use that power to fix the problems they’ve created, or we make the platforms less powerful so that the people they’ve failed can escape from them. We can’t do both. [...] The problem with the platforms isn’t that they abuse their immense power. It’s that they have that immense power.