It’s the word of the moment. “Enshittification” is the reason Google is all ads and no useful results, Amazon serves you crappy overpriced products, your phone spies on you and you can’t find your friends on social media – but you WILL be persecuted by bots, brands and Nazis all day long. So how are we going to fix it? Leading tech critic Cory Doctorow joins Andrew Harrison and Rafael Behr to talk about whether digital platform rot is inevitable, his book <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/a/13277/9781836742227">Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It</a> …  and the many, many ways to conjugate the verb “to enshittify”. 
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ESCAPE ROUTES
• Cory recommends the podcast <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4Ax906IlsRA4fD4rgylKg0?si=a1d5986b272643d3%E2%81%A0%20">No Gods No Mayors</a>.
• Raf went to see the touring production of <a href="https://fiddlerontheroofuk.com/">Fiddler on the Roof</a> which you can still just about catch in Sunderland and Birmingham.
• Andrew recommends child abduction drama <a href="https://www.nowtv.com/watch/all-her-fault/iYEQZ2rcf32Y69BgetxSQQ?DCMP=knc-google:nc_ents&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23223238535&gclid=CjwKCAiAz_DIBhBJEiwAVH2XwHbw6yry4MuKLxQBK3p1Aoec_pkNC3NsYc-p93-6buCjS2pA5yHaohoC32sQAvD_BwE%E2%81%A0">All Her Fault </a> on Now TV plus colossal CD box sets from <a href="https://hmv.com/store/music/cd/welcome-to-the-pleasuredome-(steven-wilson-mix)-su%E2%81%A0">Frankie Goes To Hollywood</a> and <a href="https://recordstore.co.uk/products/a-secret-sense-of-rhythm-a-secret-sense-of-sin-the-complete-ztt-propaganda-6cd-box-set?_pos=1&_sid=3be2d27f9&_ss=r&_fid=a99594420%E2%81%A0">Propaganda</a>.
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Presented by Andrew Harrison with Rafael Behr. Audio and Video Production by: Chris Jones. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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