Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Incalculable diffusion as a philosophy of doing| www.programmablemutter.com
The market leading smartphone operating systems, Android and iOS, allow users to install apps through official pre-installed markets. Android also supports app installation from third-party sources, known as sideloading. Sideloading fosters competition and enables open source app markets. However, it also enables the proliferation of markets distributing pirated and modded apps: apps whose features and functionality have been altered by a third-party. Modded apps typically claim to offer user...| Light Blue Touchpaper
Come join us for a special Sunday afternoon with author Cory Doctorow presenting and signing his new book, ENSHITTIFICATION: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it. We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demor...| Octavia Books | New Orleans, Louisiana - Independent Bookstore
The Ellison duo taking over both CBS and CNN, as well as controlling a major social media network like TikTok, would be dangerous for democracy.| FAIR
A USA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity"An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s tech giants, and how we can start fighting to get it back." –Tim Maughan, author of INFINITE DETAIL"A brilliant barn burner of a book| www.booksoup.com
89.8K Posts, 951 Following, 68.3K Followers · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow@mamot.fr. Archived at pluralistic.net I post long threads. If you don't like these in your timeline but want to read them, I suggest unfollowing me here and subscribing to my RSS, or my newsletter, or any of my various long-form feeds. Links at https://pluralistic.net. Tour schedule: https:/pluralistic.net/tour| Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow