Brian is there a reason why I can only find it in hardcover in Australia? Doesn't the paperback usually come out sooner? The hardcover is quite expensive!
Hello Brian! I'm schocked to read your book's rights still haven't been acquired for translation into French. I loved your book (so important! So well written!) and I will take it upon myself to get some French publishers to do their job and publish it!
Learning about your work is a cool breeze on a hot day—and I will go forth with the bonus of a new verb: enshitify! Brilliant. Looking forward to reading your book. This is very important work right now. Thank you Brian.
1. Happy Bookaversary. Blood In The Machine helped galvanize a lot of concerns I had last year into a decision to start speaking up about these issues more publicly and more seriously, to the point where I even became a bit of a Ned Ludd at work and paid a fine price for my insolence, which turned out to be worth it. Thank you for your massive contributions to the new Luddite movement!
2. Very intrigued that BITM was required reading by Microsoft management! Any chance they're beginning to understand what they're unleashing on the world, or are they just training Terminator drones to track you down by memorizing the inky bouquet of those crisp white pages?
3. How did Enoch's hammer end up in Pittsburgh, of all places?
Thanks Jim, for everything. I remain a little perplexed by the Microsoft thing too—oppo research? Trying to genuinely understand the ramifications? But of both? And good question! It tours around a bit, and the late David Noble once got it to DC so maybe it is or was part of an exhibition…
Brian, I haven’t tackled your book simply because the press of reading in other areas is too great, but this thoughtful “birthday note” has piqued my attention. Look forward to it.
Brian - I'm glad to hear your book is doing well and has started or significantly helped start a movement of folks pushing back against this mania.
Thanks so much, Greg.
Brian is there a reason why I can only find it in hardcover in Australia? Doesn't the paperback usually come out sooner? The hardcover is quite expensive!
Hello Brian! I'm schocked to read your book's rights still haven't been acquired for translation into French. I loved your book (so important! So well written!) and I will take it upon myself to get some French publishers to do their job and publish it!
Hi Clem! Please do! It was featured in Le Monde, but no French edition yet.
Learning about your work is a cool breeze on a hot day—and I will go forth with the bonus of a new verb: enshitify! Brilliant. Looking forward to reading your book. This is very important work right now. Thank you Brian.
Thanks Michelle! Really appreciate it — and I agree; Cory Doctorow gets credit for the enshittification term however! Great coinage.
1. Happy Bookaversary. Blood In The Machine helped galvanize a lot of concerns I had last year into a decision to start speaking up about these issues more publicly and more seriously, to the point where I even became a bit of a Ned Ludd at work and paid a fine price for my insolence, which turned out to be worth it. Thank you for your massive contributions to the new Luddite movement!
2. Very intrigued that BITM was required reading by Microsoft management! Any chance they're beginning to understand what they're unleashing on the world, or are they just training Terminator drones to track you down by memorizing the inky bouquet of those crisp white pages?
3. How did Enoch's hammer end up in Pittsburgh, of all places?
Thanks Jim, for everything. I remain a little perplexed by the Microsoft thing too—oppo research? Trying to genuinely understand the ramifications? But of both? And good question! It tours around a bit, and the late David Noble once got it to DC so maybe it is or was part of an exhibition…
Brian, I haven’t tackled your book simply because the press of reading in other areas is too great, but this thoughtful “birthday note” has piqued my attention. Look forward to it.
Cheers Andreas — certainly know how that goes. Hope you enjoy.