By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026Alongside that number and its implication for the news media, Jeff Bezos buying the *Washington Post* and turning its editorial page into a sewer of shitty Ayn Rand fanfic barely registers. 48/ 117112
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026This is *pure* enshittification. Of all the ingenious, innovative ways that Amazon came up with to make money, the *most* successful is a scam that makes everything you buy more expensive *even as* it reduces the profits of the companies you're buying from. 49/ 120247
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026It's another example of corruption: a system of concentrated gains and diffuse losses - and once again, it's *the most profitable thing Amazon does*. And then...Amazon *made it worse*. 50/ 11418
