Topic: book discussion
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The Meteoric Rise and Fall of a Gay Dating Giant
Blued's founder, Ma Baoli, uniquely navigated China's regulatory landscape by aligning the gay dating app's growth with state priorities, such as public health partnerships, to gain legitimacy and scale. A key moment in this strategy was Ma's 2012 meeting with future premier Li Keqiang, which he ...
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The Enshittification of the Internet by Silicon Valley
Cory Doctorow introduces "enshittification" to describe the predictable decline in quality of digital platforms, where services deteriorate as corporate incentives shift from attracting users to extracting maximum value from them. The rise of generative AI accelerates this decline by integrating ...
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