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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #LosAngeles, #Calgary and #SanFrancisco!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! What the Eurostack is missing.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11537838…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-15 13:20:37
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Cory Doctorow Thinks He Knows How to Fix the Internet slate.com/technology/2025/10/c…
* How to Save the Internet From “Enshittification” jacobin.com/2025/10/internet-e…
* Jeep software update bricks vehicles, leaves owners stranded thestack.technology/jeep-softw…
* Anti-Monopolism as an Ideology of the Left lpeproject.org/blog/anti-monop…
* Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI 404media.co/lawyer-using-ai-fa…
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Jeep software update bricks vehicles
Edward Targett (The Stack)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Japanese court: links to news stories can’t use headlines for link-text web.archive.org/web/2006030919…
#20yrsago Understanding broadband regulation papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
#20yrsago Anti-game wacko designs ultra-violent video game to prove games are violent web.archive.org/web/2005103000…
#20yrsago Gilberto Gil in the Guardian theguardian.com/music/2005/oct…
#15yrsago BoomCases: self-powered amps built into old suitcases theboomcase.wordpress.com/gall…
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Minister of counterculture
Oliver Burkeman (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago The Singularity won’t be heaven: Annalee Newitz web.archive.org/web/2010101620…
#15yrsago Webcam spying school settles with students, pays $1.2M in fees and damages nbcnews.com/id/wbna39631890
#15yrsago Rucker and Sterling’s new story: “Goodnight Moon” on Tor.com web.archive.org/web/2010101623…
#15yrsago Wonderful Japanese pudding ad youtube.com/watch?v=9sEI1AUFJK…
#15yrsago Anatomical illustrations from Japan’s Edo period pinktentacle.com/2010/10/anato…
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School settles 2 webcam spy lawsuits for $610K
MARYCLAIRE DALE (NBC News)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Travel author sues DHS to make it obey the law with its vast traveller databases hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/00…
#15yrsago Kevin Kelly’s WHAT TECHNOLOGY WANTS: how technology changes us and vice-versa memex.craphound.com/2010/10/13…
#10yrsago TPP requires countries to destroy security-testing tools (and your laptop) web.archive.org/web/2015102012…
#10yrsago How to make “Dracula’s dentures” cookie sandwiches the-girl-who-ate-everything.co…
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Dracula's Dentures for Halloween | The Girl Who Ate Everything
Christy Denney (The Girl Who Ate Everything)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Playboy (circulation 800k, down from 5.6m) drops nude images nytimes.com/2015/10/13/busines…
#10yrsago Glitchlife: Gallery of public Blue Screens of Death, including a world-beater web.archive.org/web/2015101300…
#10yrsago Bernie Sanders is beating all of Obama’s important 2008 records web.archive.org/web/2015101312…
#10yrsago How to teach gerrymandering and its many subtle, hard problems mitesp.tumblr.com/post/1307934…
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How I Teach Gerrymandering
mitesp (Tumblr)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Police end round-the-clock Assange detail at London’s Ecuadorian embassy ibtimes.co.uk/police-stop-24-7…
#10yrsago CIA black-site torture survivors sue shrinks who made $85M overseeing CIA torture program theintercept.com/2015/10/13/fo…
#10yrsago SRSLY, they want to put DRM in JPEGs eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/ther…
#10yrsago Fury Road as a vintage run-and-gun side-scroller youtube.com/watch?v=NsXWTcVvCw…
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Police stop 24/7 monitoring of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy
Ewan Palmer (International Business Times UK)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Information leakage shows DEA blew millions on the secret phone trackers it won’t admit it bought muckrock.com/news/archives/201…
#10yrsago No, poor kids don’t struggle in school because their parents have small vocabularies newrepublic.com/article/123093…
#5yrsago How to spreadsheet pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/fin…
#5yrsago Prop 22 is a scam pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/fin…
#5yrsago What happened in Florida pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/fin…
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Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”
The New RepublicCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Pandemic shock doctrine vs internet freedom pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/fin…
#5yrsago Beyond Cyberpunk pluralistic.net/2020/10/13/hop…
#5yrsago SF as intuition pump pluralistic.net/2020/10/13/hop…
#1yrago Dirty words are politically potent pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pea…
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Pluralistic: 13 Oct 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Monday's threads: How to fix the UK housing crisis; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-13 14:39:06
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 "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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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory 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:
* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
dieselbookstore.com/event/2025…
* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/…
* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
powells.com/events/cory-doctor…
* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
clarionwest.org/event/2025-dee…
* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
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* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
attentionconferences.com/confe…
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Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron
Marnee Chua (Clarion West)Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, Oct 24
mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/even…
* #Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 25
writersfestival.org/events/fal…
* #Toronto: Enshittification with Dan Werb (Type Books), Oct 27
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* #Barcelona: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
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Conferencia - 4D
4D DIGITALITZACIÓ DEMOCRÀTICA I DRETS DIGITALSCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
cloudfest.com/usa/
* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
burbankbookfestival.com/
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
websummit.com/sessions/lis25/9…
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Web Summit, Lisbon
Web SummitCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/event…
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…
* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…
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Neuroscience, AI, and Society
Computational Neuroscience CenterCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification (The Gist)
youtube.com/watch?v=EgBiv_KchI…
* Canadian tariffs with Avi Lewis
plagal.wordpress.com/2025/10/1…
* Enshittification (This Is Hell)
thisishell.com/interviews/1864…
* Enshittification (Computer Says Maybe)
csm.transistor.fm/episodes/got…
* Enshittification with Lina Khan (Brooklyn Public Library)
youtube.com/watch?v=NCX5Yst64H…
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Computer Says Maybe | Gotcha! Enshittification w/ Cory Doctorow
Computer Says MaybeCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #LosAngeles, #Calgary and #SanFrancisco!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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First line of my bio is "I post long threads."
Read here for how to manage threads on Mastodon, and for places to get my work if you'd prefer not to get threads in your timeline:
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How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netNicole Parsons
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The USA itself has already established legal precedent for ignoring such international trade laws.
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The newly formed USA ignored European law on the monarchal grant of monopolies for a century & substituted their own patent & copyright system.
washingtonpost.com/business/20…
scmp.com/news/china/politics/a…
If a corrupt Clarence Thomas can be bought by Koch Network to re-use slavery law from the 19th century to vacate ...
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China unveils rule to counter ‘discriminatory’ measures in international IP disputes
William Zheng (South China Morning Post)Cory Doctorow reshared this.
Nicole Parsons
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... women's civil rights to agency & autonomy, perhaps similarly old law can be used to free the globe from tariff threats & US bottlenecks on tech sovereignty.
Vacating section 6 is a human rights issue too. USA tech restrictions cause deaths when medical device companies go bankrupt.
cnn.com/2024/03/29/politics/co…
newyorker.com/news/daily-comme…
vice.com/en/article/history-of…
Of course, Koch's "solution" to such anti-monopoly pushback by the EU is to fund fascist movements
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politic…
Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop
Ann Moody (Yorkshire Bylines)