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The Gist - Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Doctorow lays out his "enshittification" playbook—how tech platforms lure users, trap businesses, then extract value from both—tying it to interoperability, right-to-repair, and DMCA lock-ins, with Facebook as Exhibit A. He explains why incremental state laws can break Big Tech's coalitions better than sweeping federal reforms. Meanwhile, Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro warns, "If the gringos threaten, we work harder; if they attack, we respond," after Trump-ordered strikes sink another Caribbean vessel, this time with proof the public can't see. Also: the Spiel contends that hostages were freed not by moral suasion but by sustained force—and that human-rights maximalism, however sincere, often misunderstands how wars actually end.
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Marketplace All-in-One - Big banks’ boom time
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Consider This from NPR - The targets of Trump’s DOJ are already paying a price
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Newshour - Israel to restrict aid over return of hostage remains
Israeli officials have said the government has decided to restrict aid into Gaza in response to Hamas being too slow in handing over the bodies of dead hostages.
We'll hear from an Israeli whose relative's body is still in Gaza and who fears it may never be brought home.
Also on the programme: we speak to the UN about the reconstruction in Gaza and how it will be paid for; and Harvard professor and philosopher Michael Sandel shares why he thinks meritocracy is overrated.
(Photo: A Palestinian man looks on next to a tent amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza City. Credit: Reuters)
State of the World from NPR - Hostage Exchange Between Israel and Gaza
Nearly 2000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli prisons were released into Gaza and the occupied West Bank as part of phase one of the ceasefire deal. All 20 surviving Israeli hostages were freed by Hamas after spending more than two years in captivity in Gaza. We hear reaction from Gaza and Tel Aviv.
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