You know the feeling. Your Google search is useless, your feed is all ads, and finding a decent charging cable on Amazon feels like an archaeological dig. There's a name for this digital decay: "Enshittification." In this episode, Sascha Funk goes beyond the memes to reveal what's really happening when the platforms we love inevitably turn into sludge.

Moving from Cory Doctorow's sharp diagnosis to the prescient theories of Jürgen Habermas, we'll uncover how the cold, profit-driven logic of "the System" is systematically paving over the digital public parks where we used to connect. Using examples from Reddit's API protests to the manipulative design of your food delivery app, this is a deep dive into the communication of sludge, corporate gaslighting, and the central, cynical question: can we ever fight back, or are we doomed to scroll through the digital ruins forever?

Squid Game is back — and so is the discourse. But beyond the jump suits, viral memes, and algorithmic hype, what is Squid Game really telling us?

In this episode of FUNK !T, Sascha slices through the pop culture noise to ask:

• Is Netflix giving us real critique or just aestheticized capitalism?

• What does the success of this franchise say about global storytelling — and Western consumption of “foreign struggle”?

• And what can we learn from the media logic driving its viral comeback?

With references to McLuhan, Hall, Sontag, and a few wildcards you didn’t see coming, this episode digs into the spectacle, the structure, and the subtext — all through the lens of communication theory and media critique.

Because sometimes, the biggest games aren’t played on screen — they’re played in how we watch.

Not everything goes according to syllabus. In this candid recap, Sascha reflects on what didn’t work in his classes this semester — from student apathy to the hidden costs of campus logistics, attendance dramas, and the joys (and chaos) of project-based learning. If you’ve ever tried to teach like it’s the real world and ended up managing 30 different realities, this one’s for you. A behind-the-scenes look at classroom culture, expectations, and the messiness of meaningful education.