Lectures on Tap - "Move Fast and Monetize Everything"

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🧠 Lecture: "Move Fast and Monetize Everything"

🎤 Speaker: G. Jake Chanenson

Join us for a timely exploration of how today’s internet became so hostile to its own users. Drawing on platform economics, interface design, antitrust history, and copyright law, G. Jake Chanenson will unpack the forces behind what Cory Doctorow calls “enshitification” — the shift from building products for people to building systems optimized for extraction.

By placing our digital decline in a broader historical and legal context, this talk explains how genuine competition faded, why so many services now feel frustratingly worse, and how we ended up with an internet that’s “five websites reposting screenshots from the other four.”

Jake is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Chicago, specializing in law-informed research at the intersection of human-computer interaction, privacy, and technology policy. Holding a Masters in Law from the University of Chicago Law School, Jake combines technical and legal expertise to tackle complex questions about data and power online. Their work has been published in top venues, including ACM’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.

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