This is a great thread about how one of the world’s most toxic ideas, the purported “Tragedy of the Commons,” keeps ruining everything (in this case, the internet). I won’t link to the Hardin article but to this rebuttal of it, which I remember from uni:
researchgate.net/publication/27…

I hope 'spicy autocomplete' enters the lexicon alongside 'enshittification' - another apt and catchy term.

Huh. Community of commons excluding bad actors. Sounds like moderation.

Weird how every social media system is allergic to developing that.

We gonna have a lot of #bullshit doing the rounds.

Zordon #31 gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/750072783…

Restaurant Bellevue (1963) in Vienna, Austria, by Traude & Wolfgang Windbrechtinger. Demolished in 1982. germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/750070514…

On Google, AI, and the problems of big tech dominance

I assign this reading as an example of a terrible essay that influenced environmentalism, and assign Ostrom the same week as the example of how things actually work.

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Just out of curiosity I asked chatgpt to put together a treatment based on your Jolie idea “ET, but starring a dog, with a love plot in the second act”. Here’s what it came up with. I don’t think Jonathan Nolan will be out of a job soon.

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK enjoyed the high stakes debate on MMT vs Crypto in the Lost Cause, btw.

I didn't know that about Garrett Hardin. Now I'm glad I don't teach the tragedy of the commons.