Russia went from the logical endpoint of communism to the logical endpoint of capitalism without stopping anywhere in between.
I believe every country that allows vast disparities in wealth and power will enshittify similarly, even if the precise route and outcomes may differ.
I believe every country that allows vast disparities in wealth and power will enshittify similarly, even if the precise route and outcomes may differ.
19/ "300,000 rubles [$3,600] — that's how much it costs to evacuate a wounded soldier in the 8th company, 3rd battalion, 128th brigade. And even after the transfer, no one guarantees they'll let you retreat [from the front]!
November 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Russia went from the logical endpoint of communism to the logical endpoint of capitalism without stopping anywhere in between.
I believe every country that allows vast disparities in wealth and power will enshittify similarly, even if the precise route and outcomes may differ.
I believe every country that allows vast disparities in wealth and power will enshittify similarly, even if the precise route and outcomes may differ.
It seems that GoodReads just (pretty quietly) killed its publicly readable RSS feeds. So I can't scrape my content from their platform anymore. 🤬
And here I was, thinking that being Amazon-owned didn't necessarily mean that you had to enshittify your product. 💩
cc @doctorow.pluralistic.net
And here I was, thinking that being Amazon-owned didn't necessarily mean that you had to enshittify your product. 💩
cc @doctorow.pluralistic.net
November 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
It seems that GoodReads just (pretty quietly) killed its publicly readable RSS feeds. So I can't scrape my content from their platform anymore. 🤬
And here I was, thinking that being Amazon-owned didn't necessarily mean that you had to enshittify your product. 💩
cc @doctorow.pluralistic.net
And here I was, thinking that being Amazon-owned didn't necessarily mean that you had to enshittify your product. 💩
cc @doctorow.pluralistic.net
"But what if our competitors refuse to enshittify and start offering quality, lower cost products and services?"
"....?"
"BWHAHA, I GOT YOU GOOD."
"HO HO HO HO, JOHNSON YOU ARE A LAUGH RIOT!"
"COMPETITORS! CAN YOU IMAGINE!"
"....?"
"BWHAHA, I GOT YOU GOOD."
"HO HO HO HO, JOHNSON YOU ARE A LAUGH RIOT!"
"COMPETITORS! CAN YOU IMAGINE!"
November 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
"But what if our competitors refuse to enshittify and start offering quality, lower cost products and services?"
"....?"
"BWHAHA, I GOT YOU GOOD."
"HO HO HO HO, JOHNSON YOU ARE A LAUGH RIOT!"
"COMPETITORS! CAN YOU IMAGINE!"
"....?"
"BWHAHA, I GOT YOU GOOD."
"HO HO HO HO, JOHNSON YOU ARE A LAUGH RIOT!"
"COMPETITORS! CAN YOU IMAGINE!"
Generative AI is the most profoundly and explicitly destructive technology for the empowerment of young people in the last century. Whatever your aspirations, its proprietors mean it to moot them and replace you (and to enshittify your formative experiences to fund the process).
Most innovations in information technology got adopted by young people first, by their own choice, then older folks get on board later, after the tech was established.
This is the first I can think of where older, more powerful people embraced a new tech innovation and had to force it on the youth.
This is the first I can think of where older, more powerful people embraced a new tech innovation and had to force it on the youth.
The Daily Princetonian has published some student reactions to the announcement that the university is giving them all ChatGPT access and -- as most teachers will tell you -- none of the students actually want this garbage.
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...
November 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Generative AI is the most profoundly and explicitly destructive technology for the empowerment of young people in the last century. Whatever your aspirations, its proprietors mean it to moot them and replace you (and to enshittify your formative experiences to fund the process).
I'm using Proton... for now. I'm sure this will all enshittify in a few years like everything else, but it buys me time.
November 3, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I'm using Proton... for now. I'm sure this will all enshittify in a few years like everything else, but it buys me time.
Since Scientific Reports is (possibly) about to be downgraded to rubbish, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.
Why do journals enshittify? What does it mean for science? What can we do?
Background:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
Why do journals enshittify? What does it mean for science? What can we do?
Background:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
This is pretty wild: Scientific Reports is no longer being indexed by PubMed.
“Scientific Reports is currently being reviewed by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM),” the journal’s chief editor Rafal Marszalek wrote in an email seen by Retraction Watch. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/30/s...
“Scientific Reports is currently being reviewed by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM),” the journal’s chief editor Rafal Marszalek wrote in an email seen by Retraction Watch. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/30/s...
Scientific Reports on hold in PubMed while NLM reevaluates journal
The National Library of Medicine has stopped indexing articles from Scientific Reports in MEDLINE because the journal’s inclusion in the world’s largest biomedical library is under review, Retracti…
retractionwatch.com
November 5, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Since Scientific Reports is (possibly) about to be downgraded to rubbish, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.
Why do journals enshittify? What does it mean for science? What can we do?
Background:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
Why do journals enshittify? What does it mean for science? What can we do?
Background:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
But come on, without Internet, how could we enshittify them effectively!? See??
November 3, 2026 at 8:04 AM
But come on, without Internet, how could we enshittify them effectively!? See??
it's just harder to enshittify and rig due to the fundamental design of the platform, but they absolutely would if they could
November 5, 2026 at 6:54 PM
it's just harder to enshittify and rig due to the fundamental design of the platform, but they absolutely would if they could
stop fucking trying to enshittify mail
November 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
stop fucking trying to enshittify mail
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Fuck the NYT. They enshittify everything god dammit.
Fuck the NYT. They enshittify everything god dammit.
The New York Times is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Letterboxd for roughly $330 million
New York Times Company in Advanced Talks to Acquire Letterboxd (Gift Article)
The roughly $330 million deal for the cinephile community site would be part of an effort to add new products and services to the company’s portfolio.
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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Fuck the NYT. They enshittify everything god dammit.
Fuck the NYT. They enshittify everything god dammit.
What Roger Marshall did was enshittify health care in an entire region of the state and then force the government to step in and clean up his mess. And he made ten million dollars doing it.
November 1, 2026 at 2:15 PM
What Roger Marshall did was enshittify health care in an entire region of the state and then force the government to step in and clean up his mess. And he made ten million dollars doing it.
Ok great. They tried a new idea and it failed. Can we please remove AI from the Google page and have it go back to being a search engine? Can we try, just once, not to enshittify everything?
October 31, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Ok great. They tried a new idea and it failed. Can we please remove AI from the Google page and have it go back to being a search engine? Can we try, just once, not to enshittify everything?
before you lie two options
a) wait for Gabe to die so you can buy Steam and enshittify it
b) do a flip off the rooftops
long-term planning to actually sell goods and services? no that isn't an option, we have to end it all
a) wait for Gabe to die so you can buy Steam and enshittify it
b) do a flip off the rooftops
long-term planning to actually sell goods and services? no that isn't an option, we have to end it all
Really disheartening as a socialist to know that no matter how hard I try, I'll never hate capitalism as much as a capitalist when they're forced to engage in capitalism.
November 3, 2026 at 2:06 PM
before you lie two options
a) wait for Gabe to die so you can buy Steam and enshittify it
b) do a flip off the rooftops
long-term planning to actually sell goods and services? no that isn't an option, we have to end it all
a) wait for Gabe to die so you can buy Steam and enshittify it
b) do a flip off the rooftops
long-term planning to actually sell goods and services? no that isn't an option, we have to end it all
sam altman is my favorite person to look up to cause i know i cannot enshittify the tech market in a actual horrible way AND create a company losing extreme amounts of money. It’s a amazing person to look up to of what you don’t want to be
November 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM
sam altman is my favorite person to look up to cause i know i cannot enshittify the tech market in a actual horrible way AND create a company losing extreme amounts of money. It’s a amazing person to look up to of what you don’t want to be
*Mildly* surprised that trying to sell PowerPoint as a design app as a service lasted this long
For Affinity itself I'd just hope they won't enshittify into being yet another Adobe CC
For Affinity itself I'd just hope they won't enshittify into being yet another Adobe CC
November 4, 2026 at 1:04 PM
*Mildly* surprised that trying to sell PowerPoint as a design app as a service lasted this long
For Affinity itself I'd just hope they won't enshittify into being yet another Adobe CC
For Affinity itself I'd just hope they won't enshittify into being yet another Adobe CC
#nzpol
There’re no opportunities to line their own pockets by making sure people are safe in their own homes so of course they shelved this. I can’t believe they’re still finding ways to enshittify our country during an election campaign.
There’re no opportunities to line their own pockets by making sure people are safe in their own homes so of course they shelved this. I can’t believe they’re still finding ways to enshittify our country during an election campaign.
Government shelves proposed system to 'transform' responses to family violence
Government shelves proposed system to 'transform' responses to family violence
The Government has shelved a system that would have supported more "timely multi-agency responses" to family violence and alerted staff to "high-risk situations".
www.rnz.co.nz
October 30, 2026 at 5:03 PM
#nzpol
There’re no opportunities to line their own pockets by making sure people are safe in their own homes so of course they shelved this. I can’t believe they’re still finding ways to enshittify our country during an election campaign.
There’re no opportunities to line their own pockets by making sure people are safe in their own homes so of course they shelved this. I can’t believe they’re still finding ways to enshittify our country during an election campaign.
Noooo, fuck off, go and enshittify something else! What this bollocks, it worked fine and clear before!
October 30, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Noooo, fuck off, go and enshittify something else! What this bollocks, it worked fine and clear before!
CEO Andy Yen Prepares to Enshittify ProtonMail With AI (and How to Stop Him).
If Yen is serious about treating your data as sacrosanct and keeping AI away from your Inbox, he'll install an AI "Kill Switch", and make it prominent.
Full post at The Jackpot Blog 👇
@doctorow.pluralistic.net <-- Help!
If Yen is serious about treating your data as sacrosanct and keeping AI away from your Inbox, he'll install an AI "Kill Switch", and make it prominent.
Full post at The Jackpot Blog 👇
@doctorow.pluralistic.net <-- Help!
thejackpot.blog
October 30, 2026 at 7:03 AM
CEO Andy Yen Prepares to Enshittify ProtonMail With AI (and How to Stop Him).
If Yen is serious about treating your data as sacrosanct and keeping AI away from your Inbox, he'll install an AI "Kill Switch", and make it prominent.
Full post at The Jackpot Blog 👇
@doctorow.pluralistic.net <-- Help!
If Yen is serious about treating your data as sacrosanct and keeping AI away from your Inbox, he'll install an AI "Kill Switch", and make it prominent.
Full post at The Jackpot Blog 👇
@doctorow.pluralistic.net <-- Help!
Step 1: make the best search engine ever
Step 2: add ads for revenue
Step 3: enshittify the search to maximize ads revenue
Step 4: add ai answer as a substitute to search that looks good compared to enshittify search but removes revenue and is still bad
Step 5: what
Step 6: no what ????
Step 2: add ads for revenue
Step 3: enshittify the search to maximize ads revenue
Step 4: add ai answer as a substitute to search that looks good compared to enshittify search but removes revenue and is still bad
Step 5: what
Step 6: no what ????
October 29, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Step 1: make the best search engine ever
Step 2: add ads for revenue
Step 3: enshittify the search to maximize ads revenue
Step 4: add ai answer as a substitute to search that looks good compared to enshittify search but removes revenue and is still bad
Step 5: what
Step 6: no what ????
Step 2: add ads for revenue
Step 3: enshittify the search to maximize ads revenue
Step 4: add ai answer as a substitute to search that looks good compared to enshittify search but removes revenue and is still bad
Step 5: what
Step 6: no what ????
Sam Altman wants your RAM so he can enshittify the hell out of your compute experience.
October 30, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Sam Altman wants your RAM so he can enshittify the hell out of your compute experience.
Having once spent considerable time on Reddit, but left as its for-profit management decided to aggressively enshittify the service to extract short-term value, I dearly hope this idiotic move helps kill once and for all the once-proud 'heart of the internet'
Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
Reddit's search traffic "was down meaningfully" last quarter.
arstechnica.com
October 30, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Having once spent considerable time on Reddit, but left as its for-profit management decided to aggressively enshittify the service to extract short-term value, I dearly hope this idiotic move helps kill once and for all the once-proud 'heart of the internet'
When the markets enshittify themselves
Breaking news: Alphabet shares tumbled 13% on Thursday after the Google owner revealed that 'AI mode' searches were threatening profits at its core advertising business. ft.trib.al/g8Q9IPx
October 29, 2026 at 2:56 PM
When the markets enshittify themselves