Show Notes
Lately, it feels like tech just kind of sucks. Searching on Google means scrolling through junk results and streamers like Amazon Prime have ad breaks now. According to our guest, Cory Doctorow, this platform decay is part and parcel of the “enshittification” cycle, and it’s coming for absolutely everything. So how do we take back the internet?
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