web theory A plugin to force Twitter to respect your settings and stop showing you "top" tweets Cory Doctorow
article 13 Competition can fix Big Tech, but only if we don't make "bigness" a legal requirement Cory Doctorow
facebook Facebook's "celebration" and "memories" algorithms are auto-generating best-of-terror-recruiting pages for extremist groups Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook's year-old "improvements" to the newsfeed have elevated enraging Fox News posts to the service's dominant form Cory Doctorow
internet of shit "Friendly" apps are good at maximizing engagement, but their context-blindness is a cesspit of algorithmic cruelty Cory Doctorow
politics Donald Trump is a pathogen evolved to thrive in an attention-maximization ecosystem Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook deathwatch: a decade ago, it was impossible to imagine the fall of Myspace Cory Doctorow
trumpism How technology's built in "engagement maximization" destroys mental health in the Trump age, and what to do about it Cory Doctorow
