"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It

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• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Amy Goodman did a taping in the small college town I moved to for my first management role. We had three reporters and a few stringers, and one reporter expressed interest … bad idea (this is the same reporter I had to ban from using spellcheck, as he selected the first option each time, meaning everything was spelled correctly – essentially a 2004 version of autocorrect where the spelling is impeccable, but the words are wrong [“party with a causal atmosphere” was my first concrete tip that something was going wrong, because his idiolect didn’t include “causal”]).

  He got back to the office fawning like he’d just met Elvis, and the story he wrote reflected that stance. Honestly one of the tougher pieces I’ve edited, because he wrote a column, and I had to turn it into a news story. In any other circumstance, I’d have thrown it back to him, but here, there was no guarantee that what came back wouldn’t be worse than the first draft.

  I am somewhat disappointed that the advertised Part 2 of the Doctorow interview isn’t available yet.

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