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Srsly Wrong

297 – Platform Decay, and How Amazon Raises Prices for Everyone (w/ Cory Doctorow)

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Srsly Wrong

Society & Culture, Comedy, History, News & Politics

4.9518 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

We are joined by Cory Doctorow to discuss three of his recent books “Chokepoint Capitalism”, “The Internet Con”, and “The Lost Cause”. We discuss Enshittification, Monopolies, Interoperability, Green New Deals, and Library...

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0:00.0

Private Moritz, Private Moritz, look at me.

0:03.0

It's Commander Villiers.

0:04.0

Where?

0:05.0

Moritz, you've had your mind scrambled by a long-range torture gun.

0:09.0

Torture gun, but I thought...

0:12.0

You probably feel like you've been tortured for about 10,000 years.

0:15.0

It wasn't real? I can't...

0:18.0

Who did this to me?

0:20.0

It was the Dominator Collective It, Kid.

0:23.1

We're at Mind War against them for the Alpha Centauri system.

0:26.4

Oh, right. Mind War, I remember now.

0:29.2

I, uh...

0:29.9

Here, come this way. We're bringing you to get some medical attention.

0:32.2

We got this new experimental program where in order to undo the effects of torture,

0:36.9

formerly tortured people are exposed to

0:38.6

extremely good interviews on comedy podcasts with intellectuals, artists, a little bit of comedy

0:44.4

sketches, kind of a variety show thing.

0:46.8

That sounds soothing.

0:48.3

Yeah, it's not only soothing, but it undoes the effects of torture, it turns out.

0:51.7

You know, fun fact, even though it's the year 24,600 AD, their Patreon at patreon.

0:57.2

At patreon.com slash seriously wrong is still open.

0:59.9

So people can pay $6 to access the whole archive.

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