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Inside: Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine."; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
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Clarion Write-a-Thon | Cory Doctorow
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Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine.": "Technophilia and Its Discontents."
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-16 16:37:49
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics nytimes.com/2025/07/12/busines…
* When He Calls Your Name uncannymagazine.com/article/wh…
* More Woody Guthrie Songs? Yes, From a Trove of Homemade Recordings. nytimes.com/2025/07/14/arts/mu… (h/t Roz Doctorow)
* The Enshittification of American Power wired.com/story/enshittificati…
* Musk's Perfect World: How would it work? profstevekeen.substack.com/p/m… (h/t Naked Capitalism)
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Musk's Perfect World: How would it work?
Steve Keen (Building a New Economics)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Why aren’t ethicists better people? web.archive.org/web/2015071420…
#10yrsago Laura Poitras sues the US Government to find out why she was repeatedly detained in airports theintercept.com/2015/07/13/la…
#5yrsago PE's three kids in a trenchcoat fraud pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…
#5yrsago Biden's $2T climate plan pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…
#5yrsago McKinsey waxes fat off coronavirus failures pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…
#5yrsago Spain has been an NSO customer since 2015 pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…
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Laura Poitras Sues U.S. Government to Find Out Why She Was Repeatedly Stopped at the Border
Jenna McLaughlin (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Homeschool to prison pipeline pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…
#1yrago Foxx Nolte's "Hidden History of Walt Disney World" pluralistic.net/2024/07/15/dis…
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Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: When Google's slop meets webslop, search stops; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-15 20:14:53
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:
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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
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Cory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from 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."
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* Virtual: ORG at 20: in conversation with Maria Farrell, Jul 16
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* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Why aren't we controlling our own tech? (Co-Op Congress)
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* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again? (The Agenda/TVO)
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* Forward Kentucky
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Co-op Congress 2025 – Friday 4 July
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Cory Doctorow
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Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
clarionwriteathon.com/members/…
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Co-op Congress 2025 – Friday 4 July
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"If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again?"
YES WE WOULD. We, individual weirdos, did invent it in the first place. Bulletin boards, pretty much the same as a modern forum, are grassroots socializing. Amateur radio before it.
Phpbb is pretty much a BBS, 40 years later.
Internet forums are used happily by millions of people. They're just not cool in certain nerdly circles ...
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oscarfalcon
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •You know what is shitty, enshittified, shitballs? banks adding AI to their applications ...nobody asked for this!
Spherical Bastards!
*: (in Spanish).
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