MCD

Cloudthief

Nathaniel Rich

Forget banks. The real vault is a data center — endless rows of drives holding everybody’s private business, sitting in a windowless building nobody guards like a bank. Tim is a climate reporter worn out from writing the end of…

Enshittification

Cory Doctorow

Doctorow coined the word “enshittification” in 2022 and it spread fast enough that the American Dialect Society made it word of the year in 2023. This is the long version of his argument: Platforms start good — cheap, useful, generous…