“The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.” — Philosopher and flâneur Nassim Taleb. Ah, the blue screen of death.Shortly after midnight on Friday, it popped up on millions of computers around the world.That’s when the global system experienced a grand enshittification event, to borrow a term coined by Cory Doctorow. One digital platform after another collapsed because of a single glitch in a security upgrade for Microsoft Windows software. About 70 per cent of the world’s computers operate on Windows. And so a routine event became a catastrophic one.

Source: Last Week’s Tech Meltdown Is a Wake-Up Call | The Tyee