Ariel, AJ, and Producer Josh are finally all together for a very anticipated episode: we’re digging into Cory Doctorow’s new book, Enshittification. We talk about who really owns your shoelaces, how Amazon controls the price of everything you buy everywhere you buy it, and what happens when the company you rent your eyeballs from runs out of business. In Falcon Mode, we discuss how to build a low-tech book swap with like-minded readers.

Links:

- Cory Doctorow’s new book, Enshittification

- What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life, New York Times guest essay

- Jeremy Carrasco’s absolutely crazy experiment with YouTube Shorts trained on Cocomelon

- Brian Merchant’s crowdsourced project, AI Killed My Job

- Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing

- Kagi (our favorite search engine)

- The Kids on the Night Shift, the New York Times article about child labor on US poultry farms

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