By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026That's "Ed, the financial sleuth." But Ed has another persona, one we don't get nearly enough of, which I delight in: "Ed the stunt journalist." 3/ 1280
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026For example, in 2024, Ed bought Amazon's bestselling laptop, "a $238 Acer Aspire 1 with a 4-year-old Celeron N4500 Processor, 4GB of DDR4 RAM, and 128GB of eMMC storage" and wrote about the experience of using the internet with this popular, terrible machine: www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv... 4/wheresyoured.atNever Forgive ThemIn the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor... 2494
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026It sucked, of course, but it sucked in a way that the median tech-informed web user has never experienced. Not only was this machine dramatically underpowered, but its defaults were set to accept all manner of CPU-consuming, screen-filling ad garbage and bloatware. 5/ 1460
Ranamar @ranamar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026As an aside, I'm really glad he says this, because I agree: To be clear, I don’t believe that this gradual enshittification is part of some grand, Machiavellian long game by the tech companies, but rather the product of multiple consecutive decisions made in response to short-term financial needs. 001
