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Inside: The mad king's digital killswitch; and more!
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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 #SanFrancisco, #Portland and #Seattle!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Cory Doctorow
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The mad king's digital killswitch: Every accusation is a confession.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11540689…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-20 14:11:14
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Trump’s EV retreat: a huge win for his #1 rival cnn.com/2025/10/15/business/tr…
* Tech Workers Versus Enshittification cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-work…
* Whistle Work heidiwaterhouse.com/political-… (h/t Sumana)
* About Cory Doctorow's "Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall!" euro-stack.com/blog/2025/10/te…
* Atlanta’s city-run grocery sees early success, sparking debate over government’s role foxnews.com/politics/atlantas-…
* How Russell Vought Became Trump’s Shadow President propublica.org/article/russ-vo…
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Atlanta’s city-run grocery sees early success, sparking debate over government’s role
Amanda Macias (Fox News)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Fox shuts down Buffy Hallowe’en musical despite Whedon’s protests Fox shuts down Buffy Hallowe’en musical despite Whedon’s protests web.archive.org/web/2005102123…
#20yrsago Norway’s public broadcaster sells out taxpayers to Microsoft memex.craphound.com/2005/10/16…
#20yrsago Lifehackers profile in NYT nytimes.com/2005/10/16/magazin…
#20yrsago Pan-European DRM proposal https://dissected web.archive.org/web/20051105035811/http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/NAVSHP/
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counterPULSE|San Francisco performance art space|formerly 848 Community Space
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago EFF cracks hidden snitch codes in color laser prints w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/do…
#20yrsago Nielsen’s top-10 blog usability mistakes nngroup.com/articles/weblog-us…
#20yrsago Microsoft employee calls me a communist and a liar and insists that a Microsoft monopoly will be good for Norwayhttps://memex.craphound.com/2005/10/17/msft-employee-cory-is-a-liar-and-a-communist-msft-is-good-for-norway/
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Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes
Jakob Nielsen (Nielsen Norman Group)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Dear ASCAP: May I sing Happy Birthday for my dad’s 75th? web.archive.org/web/2005102400…
#20yrsago 100 oldest .COM names in the registry web.archive.org/web/2005102402…
#15yrsago Koja’s UNDER THE POPPY: dark, epic and erotic novel of war and intrigue memex.craphound.com/2010/10/18…
#15yrsago Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft salon.com/2010/10/19/microsoft…
#15yrsago Google Book Search will never have an effective competitor papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft
Dan Gillmor (Salon.com)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Prentiss County, Mississippi Jail requires all inmates to have a Bible, regardless of faith web.archive.org/web/2006111903…
#15yrsago Early distributed computing video, 1959, prefigures the net archive.org/details/AllAboutPo…
#15yrsago Furniture made from rusted Soviet naval mines web.archive.org/web/2015020604…
#15yrsago G20 Toronto cop who was afraid of girl blowing soap bubbles sues YouTube for “ridicule” web.archive.org/web/2010101900…
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All About Polymorphics : Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet ArchiveCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Help wanted: anti-terrorism intern for Disney web.archive.org/web/2015101518…
#15yrsago Rudy Rucker remembers Benoit Mandelbrot rudyrucker.com/blog/2010/10/16…
#15yrsago Verminous Dickens cake banned from Melbourne cake show web.archive.org/web/2010101900…
#15yrsago English Heritage claims it owns every single image of Stonehenge, ever blog.fotolibra.com/2010/10/19/…
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Remembering Benoit Mandelbrot
Rudy's Blog | Rudy Rucker's Thoughts and ImagesCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago HOWTO Make Mummy Meatloaf web.archive.org/web/2010102223…
#15yrsago HOWTO catch drilling-dust with a folded Post-It cheezburger.com/4078311936
#10yrsago White supremacists call for Star Wars boycott because imaginary brown people themarysue.com/boycott-star-wa…
#10yrsago In upsidedownland, Verizon upheld its fiber broadband promises to 14 cities techdirt.com/2015/10/19/close-…
#10yrsago Survivor-count for the Chicago PD’s black-site/torture camp climbs to 7,000+ theguardian.com/us-news/2015/o…
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#BoycottStarWarsVII Says Star Wars Promotes "White Genocide" | The Mary Sue
Jessica Lachenal (The Mary Sue)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago A Swedish doctor’s collection of English anatomical idioms news.harvard.edu/gazette/story… (1)
#10yrsago Some suggestions for sad, rich people whatever.scalzi.com/2015/10/18…
#10yrsago That “CIA veteran” who was always on Fox News? Arrested for lying about being in the CIA abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/fox…
#10yrsago Eric Holder: I didn’t prosecute bankers for reasons unrelated to my $3M/year law firm salary theintercept.com/2015/10/16/ho…
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ABC News
ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Titanic victory for fair use: appeals court says Google’s book-scanning is legal memex.craphound.com/2015/10/16…
#10yrsago Snowden for drones: The Intercept’s expose on US drone attacks, revealed by a new leaker theintercept.com/drone-papers/
#10yrsago Tweens are smarter than you think: the wonderful, true story of the ERMAHGERD meme vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10…
#10yrsago UK MPs learn that GCHQ can spy on them, too, so now we may get a debate on surveillance theguardian.com/world/2015/oct…
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GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules
Owen Bowcott (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Now we know the NSA blew the black budget breaking crypto, how can you defend yourself? eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/how-…
#10yrsago 23andme & Ancestry.com aggregated the world’s DNA; the police obliged them by asking for it web.archive.org/web/2015102303…
#10yrsago A chess-set you wear in a ring imgur.com/worlds-smallest-ches…
#10yrsago Exploiting smartphone cables as antennae that receive silent, pwning voice commands wired.com/2015/10/this-radio-t…
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WORLDS SMALLEST CHESS SET IN A RING
ImgurCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago NYPD won’t disclose what it does with its secret military-grade X-ray vans web.archive.org/web/2015101721…
#10yrsago The International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo: greatly improved, but something important has been lost back-then.tumblr.com/post/1314…
#5yrsago Happy World Standards Day or not pluralistic.net/2020/10/18/mid…
#5yrsago Amazon returns end up in landfills pluralistic.net/2020/10/16/luc…
#5yrsago UK to tax Amazon's victims pluralistic.net/2020/10/16/luc…
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The past is a foreign country
back-then (Tumblr)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Ferris wheel offices pluralistic.net/2020/10/16/luc…
#5yrsago Kids reason, adults rationalize pluralistic.net/2020/10/19/nan…
#1yrago You should be using an RSS reader pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/kee…
#1yrago Educator sued for criticising "invigilation" tool pluralistic.net/2020/10/17/pro…
#1yrago Blue states should play "constitutional hardball" pluralistic.net/2024/10/18/sta…
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Cory Doctorow
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#1yrago Penguin Random House, AI, and writers' rights pluralistic.net/2024/10/19/gan…
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Cory Doctorow
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Thursday's threads: The AI that we'll have after AI; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-16 17:28:20
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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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #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
showpass.com/2025-festival-39/
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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: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
attentionconferences.com/confe…
* #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
instagram.com/p/DO81_1VDngu/?i…
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Cory Doctorow launches Enshittification | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
mtl.drawnandquarterly.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Barcelona: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
* #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/
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Conferencia - 4D
4D DIGITALITZACIÓ DEMOCRÀTICA I DRETS DIGITALSCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd)
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
websummit.com/sessions/lis25/9…
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (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/…
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Web Summit, Lisbon
Web SummitCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…
* #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 (Smart Cookies)
youtube.com/watch?v=-BoORwEPlQ…
* 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…
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Computer Says Maybe | Gotcha! Enshittification w/ Cory Doctorow
Computer Says MaybeBlack Cat ★ Red Cat
2025-10-15 02:03:32
Cory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #SanFrancisco, #Portland and #Seattle!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Tom
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"Trump (a man who never met a grievance that was too petty to pursue) orders Tim Cook (a man who never found a boot he wouldn't lick)"
Brutal! 🤣
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