Tag: enshittification
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Meta Late than Never
Although I haven’t specifically used Facebook since I detached from that scrollslop-sodden mess, I still kept it around as another site to syndicate my blog posts. Occasionally dropping in to check up on friends, but otherwise resigning it to the dregs of enshittification. Then, a few days back, I was denied access to the site
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The Defenestration Game
It’s been a time-honoured adage that the best advert for Linux is Windows. Despite that, I limped along with a Windows 10 install on my laptop for many years. It did the job reasonably well, and I could run the apps I needed to for both myself and my studies. Then the “upgrade” to Windows
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Reading ahead to the New Year
On the surface, the back end of 2025 appears a curiously quiet coda to an explosive summer, with nary any evidence nor scandal to show for it. Yet the last few months have become some of the most fulfilling of my life. Returning to the Academy for the second year of my Foundation degree, I
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A Populace of Plastic People
In the 2013 TV special “How Videogames Changed the World”; Charlie Brooker (of Nathan Barley and Black Mirror infamy) positioned SocMed as nothing more than a game. Players would jostle for attention, earning points by views and followers. The aim being to win regardless of what it takes to get there, with integrity and accountability
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