I spoke with Timmons this week about the series. She told me she's been deluged with emails from readers who feel that the world is *different* now - and many of them cite my work on enshittification. Timmons wanted to know what advice I had for her readers. I told her that I don't think you can solve this as a consumer, because this isn't a *market* problem, it's a *political* problem, and shopping isn't politics:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/21/purity-culture/#stop-fucking-that-chicken
7/
Cory Doctorow
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