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Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
I hope you can make it!
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
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Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses: Labor should be fixed, capital should be vanquished.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11572482…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-12-15 17:44:44
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-…
* 20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple hey.paris/posts/appleid/
* Enjoy the new year in your headset brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/…
* Merry Mixmas 2025 djriko.com/merry-mixmas-mixes/
* I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto x.com/kenchangh/status/1994854…
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ken (X (formerly Twitter))Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Sony Artists offering home-burned CDs to replace spyware-infected discs web.archive.org/web/2006071908…
#20yrsago Pentagon bravely vigilant against sinister, threatening Quakers nbcnews.com/id/wbna10454316
#20yrsago Brooklyn camera-store crooks threaten activist’s life thomashawk.com/2005/12/brookly…
#20yrsago Britannica averages 3 bugs per entry; Wikipedia averages 4 nature.com/articles/438900a
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Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?
By Lisa Myers, Douglas Pasternak, Rich Gardella and the NBC Investigative Unit (NBC News)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Diane Duane wonders if she should self-publish trilogy conclusion web.archive.org/web/2005121515…
#20yrsago Table coverts to truncheon and shield jamesmcadam.co.uk/portfolio_ht…
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James McAdam [Porfolio]
www.jamesmcadam.co.ukCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Hiaasen’s STAR ISLAND: blisteringly funny tale of sleazy popstars and paparazzi memex.craphound.com/2010/12/13…
#15yrsago Dan Gillmor’s Mediactive: masterclass in 21st century journalism demands a net-native news-media memex.craphound.com/2010/12/13…
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Kosovo PM is head of human organ and arms ring, Council of Europe reports
Paul Lewis (the Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago The Red Cross brought in an AT&T exec as CEO and now it’s a national disaster propublica.org/article/the-cor…
#10yrsago Philips pushes lightbulb firmware update that locks out third-party bulbs techdirt.com/2015/12/14/lightb…
#10yrsago UK spy agency posts data-mining software to Github github.com/gchq/Gaffer
#10yrsago Cybercrime 3.0: stealing whole houses memex.craphound.com/2015/12/14…
#10yrsago US politicians, ranked by their willingness to lie nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion…
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Light Bulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of Third-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago 24 privacy tools — not messaging apps — that don’t exist dymaxion.org/essays/pleasestop…
#10yrsago North Carolina town rejects solar because it’ll suck up sunlight and kill the plants web.archive.org/web/2025081315…
#10yrsago Giant hats were the cellphones of the silent movie era pipedreamdragon.tumblr.com/pos…
#10yrsago Plaid Lumberjack Cake youtube.com/watch?v=_1hDl53c-k…
#10yrsago MRA Scott Adams: pictures and words by Scott Adams, together at last web.archive.org/web/2015121400…
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Plaid Lumberjack Cake
Artisan Cake Company (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago American rents reach record levels of unaffordability nbcnews.com/business/economy/i…
#5yrsago Well-Armed Peasants pluralistic.net/2020/12/13/art…
#5yrsago Where money comes from pluralistic.net/2020/12/14/sit…
#5yrsago China's best investigative stories of 2020 pluralistic.net/2020/12/14/sit…
#5yrsago Situation Normal pluralistic.net/2020/12/14/sit…
#1yrago Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fir…
#1yrago The GOP is not the party of workers pluralistic.net/2024/12/13/occ…
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It's Not Just the Poor Who Can't Make Rent
Martha C. White (NBC News)Cory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Federal Wallet Inspectors; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-12-13 21:24:28
Cory Doctorow
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Picks and Shovels
SupaduDev (Macmillan Publishers)Cory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
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COSine – Colorado Springs, Colorado
Arlen (COSine)Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU)
vimeo.com/1146281673
* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
youtube.com/watch?v=34gkIvYiHx…
* Enshittification on The Daily Show
youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5n…
* Enshittification with Four Ways to Change the World (Channel 4)
youtube.com/watch?v=tZQaEeuuI3…
* The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. (Novarra Media)
youtube.com/watch?v=7wE8G-d7Sn…
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Cory Doctorow: why Facebook and Google are incentivised to make their products worse
Channel 4 News (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
I hope you can make it!
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