Cory has a new book coming out which builds on his work on "enshittification". You can pre-order it as DRM-free audiobook (and no it's not on Audible), ebook, and even as a good old fashioned paper book.
David Allen Green makes the very good point that Keir Starmer's background as former prosecutor explains his incredibly cautious approach. In legal cases, it's usually the team which makes the fewest mistakes that wins -- and Starmer is aiming to do exactly that, removing every possible attack line of the Tories with things like his criticism of Sadiq Khan's ULEZ policy. The problem, as David points out, is that politics is not the law.
Terence Eden -- who is well worth a place in your RSS reader (you do have one don't you?) -- is very disappointed with Google over this "Web Environment Integrity" nonsense. And he's entirely right. As he says "Google desperately needs to be broken up. It's simply untenable to have the largest browser in the hands of the largest web advertising firm." Plus of course it's the largest source of traffic to pretty-much every web site on the planet, and the owner of the most widely-used smartphone operating system, and the only game in town for web video creators (forget it TikTok, you know your creators want to "graduate" to a YouTube channel). And, as Terence points out, there is nothing individuals can do about this. Thank whatever deity you believe in for the EU's antitrust team.
On the same day that Elon Musk threatened to sue a non-profit which investigates the prevalence of hate speech on Twitter and other platforms, Apple made an exception to its very strict app store rules to allow the company to rename its app "X". We shouldn't be surprised: despite that fact that Twitter is full of hate speech and porn, Tim Apple obviously loves it. On the positive side, the rebrand seems to have possibly the world's worst strap line. Having said that, "blaze your glory" would be prefect for Tesla, given their cars' habit of bursting into flames.
