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Those outside of Canada might have missed Cory Doctorow’s short podcast series Who Broke the Internet, about the “enshittification” of the internet.

In Understood: Who Broke the Internet?, Doctorow traces the downward spiral from the heady days of ’90s tech-optimism through to today’s rotten “enshitternet.” You’ll meet everyone from visionaries to villains to regular people just trying to survive in today’s online world. And you’ll discover who broke the internet — and, more importantly, a plan to fix it.

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From Information is Beautiful, via Kottke, comes a pretty amazing set of infographics showing a scene-by-scene analysis of how close “based on a true story” films match the historical record. Blue represents a good match, which red are embellishments or fabrications.

You can even click on an individual scene to read more details about it. This is a huge amount of information packed into easy-to-read graphs.

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