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Psychedelic Salon

Podcast 710 – Cory Doctorow – “Disenshittify or Die!”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

Personal Journals, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Philosophy

4.8567 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Cory Doctorow PROGRAM NOTES: In this 2024 Palenque Norte lecture, Cory Doctorow discusses "inshitification," the process by which initially good online services degrade over time. He argues this occurs because four constraints—competition, regulation, interoperability, and worker power has weakened, allowing companies to prioritize profit maximization over user experience. Doctorow proposes solutions including strengthening antitrust enforcement, passing new privacy laws, promoting right-to-repair legislation, and empowering tech workers through unionization. The ultimate goal is to create a "new good internet" that is resistant to inshitification and serves users' needs. Cory Doctorow's Website Electronic Frontier Foundation The Repair Coalition

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0:00.0

Three-dimensional transforming musical linguistic objects.

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Helmichels.

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Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

0:24.7

This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

0:29.0

And our podcast today features Corey Doctoral's 2024 Palenque-Norte lecture at the Burning Man Festival.

0:38.0

Corey is a celebrated author, journalist, and digital rights activist, known for his

0:43.1

incisive critiques of modern technology and its intersection with society.

0:48.4

As a longtime advocate for open systems and equitable digital access, Corey brings a unique perspective to the challenges

0:55.9

and opportunities of our increasingly interconnected world.

1:00.0

In this somewhat provocative talk, disenshitify or die, he delves into the systemic issues

1:07.4

of insidification in the techs industry.

1:10.7

Insidification is a term that he coined to describe the gradual decline in the quality of online

1:17.1

platforms and services as they prioritize profit over user experience.

1:23.0

Through his sharp insights and vivid examples, Corey, well, he outlines the need for hackers, users,

1:29.3

and policymakers to reclaim the means of computation, advocate for competition, regulation,

1:35.3

and interoperability, and to build a resilient user-first internet for future generations.

1:42.3

Now, here is Corey Doctor-O.

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I'm going to talk for about an hour and then we can do Q&A outside because there's

1:51.0

another speaker coming in.

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That works for everyone.

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So, thank you.

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The name of the talk is Dissenshitiify or Die,

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