The water is with the with the You're going to go. This is hell.

hell.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is hell and the great fortune we will be discussing in a few minutes is the vast riches made by social media platforms and the crime we will be talking about with our guests is the crime of

what our guests calls the inshittification of those social media platforms.

As our guest today writes the term he coined,

which was selected as the 2023 Word of the Year

by the American Dialect Society,

explains how the internet was colonized by platforms while all those

platforms are degrading so quickly and thoroughly why it matters and what we can do

about it. But it's not only social media

platforms like Facebook that promise to save us from the spying of my space only

to secretly spy on all of us and gradually destroy whatever service it did provide to the public.

Cori argues, our guest argues, that is.

His term can now be applied to, well, everything, and that's right, our first guest this week

is science fiction, author, activist, and journal. everything and

everything.

should have been and journalist Corey Doctoro, who posted the Financial Times article

and Shittification is coming for absolutely everything. The term describes the slow decay of online

platforms such as Facebook, but what if we've entered the Anshido scene? This piece is adapted

from the Marshall McLuhan lecture delivered at the

Embassy of Canada in Berlin last month. Corey is a special advisor to the Electronic Freedom Frontier Foundation and a visiting professor

of computer science at the Open University.

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