{"id":18327,"date":"2025-08-05T10:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=18327"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:29:19","slug":"august-5-2025-surviving-enshittification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/august-5-2025-surviving-enshittification\/","title":{"rendered":"August 5, 2025: surviving enshittification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Everyone&#8217;s offering their thoughts on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enshittification\">enshittification<\/a><\/strong> these days. I notice this phenomenon&#8230;seems like there are conversations that go on which I tap into for a bit before the move along. Makes me wonder if I&#8217;m just being carried along in the river of thought.  Well, Dave Pollard would argue that indeed I am, and today <a href=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/2025\/08\/05\/has-the-internet-succumbed-to-the-tragedy-of-the-commons\/\">he has a post<\/a> on the phenomena of eshittification, and true to his character he also has a useful analysis and remedy for it, in the form of some design principles and a recommendation to the excellent search engine, <a href=\"https:\/\/kagi.com\">Kagi<\/a>, which does what search engines used to do.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Every sector is caving to the enshittification.<\/strong> And every sector has its mavericks that are hacking it back to human-centred dignity. Philanthropy and youth sports are like that and Will Cromack is that maverick. Today <a href=\"https:\/\/williamcromack.substack.com\/p\/when-two-wrongs-finally-make-a-right\">his post at The Art of Football is a brilliant summation<\/a> of what he has done to change both of these sectors (and to change them mutually) and it&#8217;s a summary of his life&#8217;s work.  If you know me, you will know why I love this guy so much.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sometimes we survive it all?<\/strong> To be clear, I think climate collapse is a different beast than the other collapses human beings have visited upon ourselves in our short history on this planet, but <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse?utm_source=rss-feed\">this piece by Luke Kemp<\/a> at least gets me going into my day with a sense of &#8220;okay, but, maybe&#8230;&#8221; Good enough for now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s offering their thoughts on enshittification these days. I notice this phenomenon&#8230;seems like there are conversations that go on which I tap into for a bit before the move along. Makes me wonder if I&#8217;m just being carried along in the river of thought. Well, Dave Pollard would argue that indeed I am, and today he has a post on the phenomena of eshittification, and true to his character he also has a useful analysis and remedy for it, in the form of some design principles and a recommendation to the excellent search engine, Kagi, which does what search engines &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-4LB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18329,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/revisions\/18329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}