The effect of #twiddling puts us up-and-coming writers in a dilemma that we didn't ask to be put in. We would like that qualitative feedback that Doctorow talks about, but our audience is a zygote that only divides based on a chain of arbitrary whims.

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This audience generator, this lottery/gacha/"market logic," is called #twiddling. It's not a fair game. I urge you, with every fibre of my being, to listen to this excerpt from a talk @pluralistic gave at DEF CON 32 last year about #enshittification:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8&t=878s

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@Nonilex If properly constructed, such regulation could also ban "surge pricing" & all the other price #twiddling bullsh*t everyone is trying to roll out - or already perpetrating - right now, like raising prices if they have data showing that this particular customer just got paid, or their biometrics show that the customer is in a hurry, or hungry etc.

It's incredibly predatory & definitely fits the descriptor of "price gouging" & it's likely to be obscured by tech; it needs to be hit hard.

#CoryDoctorow talked in 3 episodes of 'On The Media' podcast about #Enshittification and, unsurprisingly, it was enjoyable to hear Cory talk about it.
The links are to the full show, but Cory was only on in the last part of each show.
And you'll learn about other awesome words like #SurveillanceLag and #Twiddling

Part 1: https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm050523_cms1323478_pod.mp3/otm050523_cms1323478_pod.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_d1f604e55d3c73f74ff0d946247c8ec2_50569272.mp3

Part 2: https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm051223_cms1325774_pod.mp3/otm051223_cms1325774_pod.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_fb25f5cdd4249541bd0367bb14cc006a_51599266.mp3

Part 3: https://waaa.wnyc.org/otm/otm051923_cms1327710_pod2.mp3/otm051923_cms1327710_pod2.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_b553074145b6377ee4a6fc1dcfd628b9_50268834.mp3

Platformism is the same as conservativism: "in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

#FrankWilhoit #Twiddling #SelectiveDisruption #RIPPowerVentures

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

@pluralistic

Does your business, or do your investments, depend in #twiddling, #enshittification, and other modern variations of the #EnclosureActs? Are you sure that's a sound strategy? One that won't blow up in your face?

(Reminds me of why I had such a bad feeling when they announced we were moving to a service economy…and service promptly begin to deteriorate. Cory Doctorow once again explicates some of why and how.)