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SUMMARY:Let's talk about a Doctorow's Enshittification [hybrid by request]
DESCRIPTION:PDX Science & Nature Book Club\nIn person\, meet at Dick's Pri
 mal Burger: We're in the community room\, to the right of where you order.
 ...\n\nIf you'd like to join remotely\, send a message to the organizer.\n
 \n**[Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do Ab
 out It](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222376640-enshittification?ref
 =nav_sb_ss_1_6)**[ ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222376640-enshitt
 ification?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_6)\n\nby Cory Doctorow\n\n*[free eBook here.](ht
 tps://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hqa7lts641ft0po6bwbuy/Enshittification-Why-Ev
 erything-Suddenly-Got-Worse-and-What-to-Do-About-It-Cory-Doctorow-z-librar
 y.sk-1lib.sk-z-lib.sk.epub?rlkey=yht119dfkw02pfukw51nnuxqd&st=217hgfbl&dl=
 0)*\n\nEnshittification: It’s not just you―the internet sucks now. It
 ’s been enshittified. That was no accident\, and it’s not gonna fix it
 self. Here’s how we’ll disenshittify it so we can have a new\, good in
 ternet.\n\nWe are all living through the Enshittocene―the Great Enshitte
 ning―a time in which the services that matter to us\, that we rely on\, 
 are being turned into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizin
 g. Even terrifying.\n\nThe once-glorious internet has degenerated into “
 platforms” that rose to dominance because they delivered convenient and 
 delightful services efficiently and reliably. But once we were locked in t
 o those services\, the tech bosses turned on us\, relying on our dependenc
 y to keep us using the services even as they got worse and worse. The plat
 form bosses did the same to the companies that had flocked to their servic
 es to sell stuff to us. Once we were all locked in―businesses and users
 ―the tech companies stripped out all utility\, save the bare minimum nee
 ded to stave off total collapse.\n\nIn Enshittification\, Cory Doctorow sh
 ows us where it comes from: not the iron laws of economics\, or the great 
 forces of history\, but specific policy choices made by powerful people wh
 o ignored every warning about the consequences of those choices. These are
  choices that can be undone. Enshittification is a Big Tech disassembly ma
 nual\, a road map for the seizure of the means of computation. It is a dia
 gnosis\, and it is a cure.
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SUMMARY:Let's talk about a book [hybrid by request]
DESCRIPTION:PDX Science & Nature Book Club\nIn person\, meet at Dick's Pri
 mal Burger: We're in the community room\, to the right of where you order.
 ...\n\nIf you'd like to join remotely\, send a message to the organizer.
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SUMMARY:Let's talk about a book [hybrid by request]
DESCRIPTION:PDX Science & Nature Book Club\nIn person\, meet at Dick's Pri
 mal Burger: We're in the community room\, to the right of where you order.
 ...\n\nIf you'd like to join remotely\, send a message to the organizer.
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SUMMARY:Let's talk about a book [hybrid by request]
DESCRIPTION:PDX Science & Nature Book Club\nIn person\, meet at Dick's Pri
 mal Burger: We're in the community room\, to the right of where you order.
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