This is a fantastic piece and you should read every word of it.
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This is a fantastic piece and you should read every word of it.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@tarakiyee/116307231877342459
This is a fantastic piece and you should read every word of it.
There's a strong irony that this particular critique comes up as a criticism of a book about "enshittification", though. While epistemicide may be the *effect* of highly contextual social-justice terms like "the master's tools" becoming free-floating self-contained signifiers, the *cause* affects "enshittification" far more and faster, which is: context collapse.
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There's a strong irony that this particular critique comes up as a criticism of a book about "enshittification", though. While epistemicide may be the *effect* of highly contextual social-justice terms like "the master's tools" becoming free-floating self-contained signifiers, the *cause* affects "enshittification" far more and faster, which is: context collapse.
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Cory is proud of having coined a term that markets the concept of "platform decay". As an inveterate descriptivist, he's overtly against pushing back on the context-collapse of his term to mean "getting worse" rather than "platform decay". But if it *fully* decays into "getting worse", then there's nothing left to be proud of. I said this almost a year ago, and I still think it's important to, if not *police* the boundaries of definitions, at least *cultivate* them with some intentionality.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/114542342934567264
Cory is proud of having coined a term that markets the concept of "platform decay". As an inveterate descriptivist, he's overtly against pushing back on the context-collapse of his term to mean "getting worse" rather than "platform decay". But if it *fully* decays into "getting worse", then there's nothing left to be proud of. I said this almost a year ago, and I still think it's important to, if not *police* the boundaries of definitions, at least *cultivate* them with some intentionality.
@glyph I get your concern for not wanting to be seen as too censorious. One thinks of Marc Maron's insight that folks on the left have annoyed the average person into fascism
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/114542342934567264
Cory is proud of having coined a term that markets the concept of "platform decay". As an inveterate descriptivist, he's overtly against pushing back on the context-collapse of his term to mean "getting worse" rather than "platform decay". But if it *fully* decays into "getting worse", then there's nothing left to be proud of. I said this almost a year ago, and I still think it's important to, if not *police* the boundaries of definitions, at least *cultivate* them with some intentionality.
Three years ago Ed Zitron wrote a piece where he argued the effect is driven not by the greed of an individual company, but by market forces - he coined it Rot Economy. Cory is a more influential marketer, but both arguments have merit.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-economy/
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Three years ago Ed Zitron wrote a piece where he argued the effect is driven not by the greed of an individual company, but by market forces - he coined it Rot Economy. Cory is a more influential marketer, but both arguments have merit.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-economy/
@glyph@osma they are very much complementary but Cory’s thesis very much takes structural forces into consideration
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@osma they are very much complementary but Cory’s thesis very much takes structural forces into consideration
Yes, and emphasises intent nonetheless.
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@glyph I get your concern for not wanting to be seen as too censorious. One thinks of Marc Maron's insight that folks on the left have annoyed the average person into fascism
@jeffcampo I am against being censorious (and also—what I think you meant—censorial) on its own merits. I have a ton of respect for Marc Maron but this particular perspective is deeply skewed by being the kind of guy who goes on podcasts a lot and hears tons of public feedback through social media. This concept of having "annoyed the average person" is just wrong, if you look at polling or focus groups. We got into fascism because of right-wing lies about the drivers of food prices.
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@jeffcampo I am against being censorious (and also—what I think you meant—censorial) on its own merits. I have a ton of respect for Marc Maron but this particular perspective is deeply skewed by being the kind of guy who goes on podcasts a lot and hears tons of public feedback through social media. This concept of having "annoyed the average person" is just wrong, if you look at polling or focus groups. We got into fascism because of right-wing lies about the drivers of food prices.
@jeffcampo (And also, tons and tons of racism. The racism was necessary but not sufficient, though.)
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This is a fantastic piece and you should read every word of it.
@glyph Why is this such a big deal? Doctorow was clumsy, I’ll agree, in repurposing Lorde’s words (which are not quite as profound as we pretend them to be, anyway), but he’s also not maliciously repurposing. He’s not in need of this level of pillory.
This feels like it’s more about being able to morally posture than anything else. And, god, do I hate self-satisfied moral peacocking.
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