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JW Prince of CPH, Radicalized<p>BTW let's be clear: Almost all <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twiddling</span></a> is "illegal but it's OK because we're doing it digitally". </p><p>In no sane society are you allowed to sell an apple, then reach across the counter &amp; replace it with a rock as the customer is about to bite into it. You promise &amp; receive money for a thing, you're obliged to deliver THAT thing, not something else &amp; you CERTAINLY can't change the thing later without the buyer's consent. </p><p>We know what to do about this. We just don't.</p><p><a href="https://helvede.net/@jwcph/114346761961885978" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">helvede.net/@jwcph/11434676196</span><span class="invisible">1885978</span></a></p>
Mix Mistress Alice💄<p>Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. &gt;</p><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/1059798497" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vimeo.com/1059798497</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/monopsonies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monopsonies</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twiddling</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LockedUsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LockedUsers</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LockedSellers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LockedSellers</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/GAFAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GAFAM</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/lecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lecture</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination</span></a>#speech <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/interoperability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interoperability</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WorkersPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorkersPower</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigData</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/sellers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sellers</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/users" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>users</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechnoFeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFeudalism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/employment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>employment</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ratings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ratings</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Uberisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uberisation</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/queries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queries</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/JediBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JediBlue</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/profiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profiling</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/enshitified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshitified</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abuse</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AntitrustLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntitrustLaw</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechLayoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechLayoffs</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/RegulatoryCaptures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RegulatoryCaptures</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechnologicalAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnologicalAbuse</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/value" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>value</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/GiantPileOfShit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiantPileOfShit</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TechnicalMechanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnicalMechanism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/rankings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rankings</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/digitalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalisation</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/nursing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nursing</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/lecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lecture</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/coporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coporatocracy</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monopoly</span></a></p>
bm<p>The effect of <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twiddling</span></a> puts us up-and-coming writers in a dilemma that we didn't ask to be put in. We would like that qualitative feedback that Doctorow talks about, but our audience is a zygote that only divides based on a chain of arbitrary whims.</p><p>12/</p>
bm<p>This audience generator, this lottery/gacha/"market logic," is called <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twiddling</span></a>. It's not a fair game. I urge you, with every fibre of my being, to listen to this excerpt from a talk <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> gave at DEF CON 32 last year about <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8&amp;t=878s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em</span><span class="invisible">8&amp;t=878s</span></a></p><p>11/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>I call this "<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twiddling</span></a>" - turning the knobs to continuously adjust the business logic that the firm operates on:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twi</span><span class="invisible">ddler/</span></a></p><p>Twiddling is everywhere, and it is only possible because "it's not a crime if we use an app" has been accepted by (captured) regulators. Think of Amazon's <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/PricingParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PricingParadox</span></a>, where deceptive search results - which Amazon makes $38b/year on - allow the company to *offer* lower prices, but *charge* higher ones:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/att</span><span class="invisible">ention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens</span></a></p><p>23/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>I call this process "<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twiddling</span></a>": tech platforms are equipped with a million knobs on their back-ends, and platform operators can endlessly twiddle those knobs, altering the business logic from moment to moment, turning the system into an endlessly shifting quagmire where neither users nor business customers can ever be sure whether they're getting a fair deal:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twi</span><span class="invisible">ddler/</span></a></p><p>5/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>Platformism is the same as conservativism: "in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/FrankWilhoit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrankWilhoit</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twiddling</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/SelectiveDisruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelectiveDisruption</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/RIPPowerVentures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIPPowerVentures</span></a></p><p><a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doctorow.medium.com/let-the-pl</span><span class="invisible">atforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p>Enshittification isn't synonomous with "fraud," "price gouging" or "wage theft." Enshittification is intrinsically digital, because moving all those goodies around requires the flexibility that comes with a *digital* businesses. <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a>, grocer, can't rapidly change the price of eggs at <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/WholeFoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WholeFoods</span></a> without an army of kids with pricing guns on roller-skates. Jeff Bezos, grocer, can change the price of eggs on <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/AmazonFresh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonFresh</span></a> just by <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twiddling</span></a> a knob on the service's back-end.</p><p>3/</p>
Gil Friend, sustainability OG<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> </p><p>Does your business, or do your investments, depend in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/twiddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twiddling</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a>, and other modern variations of the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/EnclosureActs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnclosureActs</span></a>? Are you sure that's a sound strategy? One that won't blow up in your face?<br> <br>(Reminds me of why I had such a bad feeling when they announced we were moving to a service economy…and service promptly begin to deteriorate. Cory Doctorow once again explicates some of why and how.)</p>
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