[Ads-l] Enshittification =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=97_?=Assholocene = the enshittocene
Amy West
medievalist at W-STS.COM
Fri Feb 9 16:57:14 UTC 2024
I remembered after the ADS vote the line "Everything turns to crap
eventually" from an Ookla the Mok song. I think we should look to that
as a precursor. (And, yeah, I think Cory Doctorow would be familiar with
them from sf fandom.)
---Amy West
On 2/9/24 12:04 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 20:46:21 -0800
> From: Nancy Friedman<wordworking at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Enshittification × Assholocene = the enshittocene
>
> Cory Doctorow, promulgator (but not coiner) of “enshittification,”
> acknowledges the ADS in an essay for the Financial Times and introduces two
> new enshit- coinages:
>
>>>> One by one, each of these constraints was eroded, leaving the
> enshittificatory impulse unchecked, ushering in the enshittocene.<<<
>
> https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5
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