The Lead

In 2022, Cory Doctorow gave us a name for the rot: Enshittification. In 2025, it became a hardcover manifesto. But in Q2 2026, it became a crime.

I spent the last seven months inside PACER, analyzing 17 active federal dockets, internal Slack leaks, and deposition transcripts. What I found isn't a "market trend"—it’s a multi-vector criminal architecture. I’ve built a damages calculator for the "pattern of abuse," and the current tab is sitting at $687 Billion.

The Forensic Stack: Why this isn't just a "Blog Post"

For those of us in the dev and data world, we’ve watched the platforms we built on slowly turn into "walled gardens" of extraction.…