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Pluralistic: The games industry’s self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
Cory Doctorow
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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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The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury: Amnesia is video games' default state.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-17 16:56:08
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power theguardian.com/commentisfree/… (h/t Gregory Cherlin)
* chud atlantis tumblr.com/mcmansionhell/80021…
* Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?) authorsalliance.substack.com/p…
* Lina Khan Stays Remarkably on Message on ‘The Adam Friedland Show’ gizmodo.com/lina-khan-stays-re…
* CSI Fall 2025 Catalog csi.asu.edu/catalog-fall-2025/
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McMansion Hell (Tumblr)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago 5000 music cylinders digitized and posted cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
#20yrsago Girl who didn’t do homework put on street with WILL WORK FOR FOOD sign washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/cont…
#20yrsago Sony rootkit roundup, part II memex.craphound.com/2005/11/16…
#20yrsago Sony CDs banned in the workplace memex.craphound.com/2005/11/16…
#20yrsago Sony waits 3 DAYS to withdraw dangerous “uninstaller” for its rootkit web.archive.org/web/2005112405…
#20yrsago Student folds paper 12 times! web.archive.org/web/2005110208…
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Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections.Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Barenaked Ladies release album on USB stick web.archive.org/web/2005112423…
#20yrsago Latest Sony news: 100% of CDs with rootkits, mainstream condemnation, retailers angry memex.craphound.com/2005/11/15…
#20yrsago Sony disavows lockware patent web.archive.org/web/2005112613…
#20yrsago Sony infects more than 500k networks, including military and govt web.archive.org/web/2005123122…
#20yrsago Sony’s spyware “remover” creates huge security hole blog.citp.princeton.edu/2005/1…
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Sony's Web-Based Uninstaller Opens a Big Security Hole; Sony to Recall Discs - CITP Blog
Ed Felten (CITP Blog)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Sony issues non-apology for compromising your PC web.archive.org/web/2005112405…
#20yrsago Sory Electronics: Will Sony make amends for infecting our computers? web.archive.org/web/2005112420…
#15yrsago UK gov’t wants to legalize racial profiling theguardian.com/uk/2010/nov/15…
#15yrsago Canadian writers’ group issues FUD warnings about new copyright bill web.archive.org/web/2010111700…
#15yrsago Misprinted prefab houses zeitguised.wordpress.com/2010/…
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Concrete Misplots
ZEITGUISEDCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago WWI-era photos of people pretending to be patriotic pixels web.archive.org/web/2010112406… pictures.htm
#15yrsago Steampunk bandwidth gauge web.archive.org/web/2010111807…
#15yrsago UK gov’t apologizes for decades of secret nuclear power industry corpse-mutilation web.archive.org/web/2010111917…
#15yrsago Understanding COICA, America’s horrific proposed net-censorship bill eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/case…
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UPDATE: The Case Against COICA
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago London cops shut down anti-police website; mirrors spring up all over the net theguardian.com/education/2010…
#15yrsago TSA tee: “We get to touch your junk” web.archive.org/web/2010111909…
#15yrsago Indie Band Survival Guide: soup-to-nuts, no-BS manual for 21st century artistic life memex.craphound.com/2010/11/16…
#15yrsago New aviation risk: pleats web.archive.org/web/2010111801…
#10yrsago How scientists trick themselves (and how they can prevent it) nature.com/articles/526182a
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Websites publish advice to student protesters on how to avoid arrest
Paul Lewis (the Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Is Batman’s evidence admissible in court? lawandthemultiverse.com/2015/1…
#10yrsago Hello From the Magic Tavern: hilarious, addictive improv podcast memex.craphound.com/2015/11/16…
#10yrsago The Internet will always suck locusmag.com/feature/cory-doct…
#10yrsago How terrorists trick Western governments into doing their work for them web.archive.org/web/2015111904…
#5yrsago Youtube-dl is back pluralistic.net/2020/11/16/pil…
#5yrsago HHS to pharma: stop bribing writing docs pluralistic.net/2020/11/16/pil…
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Terrorism Works
Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago The Attack Surface Lectures pluralistic.net/2020/11/16/pil…
#1yrago Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/rad…
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Pluralistic: Canada’s ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws (15 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Zohran Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-15 20:55:12
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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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…
* Virtual: Enshittification at the Internet Archive, Nov 21
eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-ens…
* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-pres…
* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…
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In Conversation: Enshittification
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
libraryfoundationsd.org/events…
* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…
* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
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Neuroscience, AI, and Society
Computational Neuroscience CenterCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel (Peoples & Things)
newbooksnetwork.com/cory-docto…
* Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now, with Tim Wu (OII)
youtube.com/watch?v=CkYxMQJ9c9…
* Job security in the AI era (Web Summit)
websummit.com/summaries/lis25/…
* How to dis-Enshittify the world (Blood In the Machine)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to…
* Reimagining Digital Public Infrastructure (Attention: Govern Or Be Governed)
youtube.com/watch?v=F8JuXDfDtB…
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Reimagining Digital Public Infrastructure (Cory Doctorow) | Attention: Govern Or Be Governed
Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: The games industry’s self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)Cory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #London, #Toronto and #SanDiego!
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
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Cory Doctorow reshared this.
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When reading first linked article I had feeling I was still reading Cory's article.
GDPR vs corporate mass-surveillance under guise of AI is better than publisher's dictatorship (AKA "copyright") vs corporate mass-surveillance.