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Inside: Become unoptimizable; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
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Become unoptimizable: Twiddle or be twiddled.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-20 14:06:33
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* DOJ Insider Blows the Whistle on Pay-to-Play Antitrust Corruption prospect.org/power/2025-08-19-…
* CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in four years archive.is/es4bc
* Tea’s Founder Convinced Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World 404media.co/how-teas-founder-c…
* Robinhood Tries to Rebrand Sports Betting as Investing gizmodo.com/robinhood-tries-to…
* The State of Independent Technology Research 2025 independenttechresearch.org/wp…
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How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Penguin-suited activists crash Microsoft’s Berlin parliament presentation netzpolitik.org/2005/microsoft…
#10yrsago LA artists who earn their livings through the Internet nytimes.com/interactive/2015/0…
#10yrsago MPAA loves fair use so much they don’t want to share it with the rest of the world eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/will…
#10yrsago Chastity belts were a joke, then a metaphor, then a hoax atlasobscura.com/articles/ever…
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The New Making It
Ryan Bradley (The New York Times)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Jeb Bush: the NSA isn’t spying on us enough web.archive.org/web/2015081906…
#5yrsago Austerity breeds Nazis pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-b…
#5yrsago Yale admin: "Prepare for death" pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-b…
#5yrsago Hedge fund won't return Citi's accidental $175m deposit pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-b…
#5yrsago Spikey pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-b…
#5yrsago Orwell prize winner trapped in orwellian nightmare pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-b…
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Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Thomas Hawk's Talking Heads pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-b…
#5yrsago Amazon's Monopoly Tollbooth pluralistic.net/2020/08/19/a-b…
#1yrago Corporate Bullshit pluralistic.net/2024/08/19/apo…
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Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster"; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11505582…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-19 14:10:09
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 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:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory 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."
craphound.com/shop
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/even…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
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* #Chicago: Enshittification with Kara Swisher (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
oldtownschool.org/concerts/202…
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
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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:
* Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights (Libro.fm)
pocketcasts.com/podcasts/9349e…
* The Utopias Podcast
buzzsprout.com/2272465/episode…
* Tariffs vs IP Law (Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons)
youtube.com/watch?v=LFABFe-5-u…
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Cory Doctorow on Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights
Pocket CastsCory Doctorow
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Fitz Bushnell
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •the point about friction really struck a chord with me. It's all just entropy really. The rich can only have their entropy free lives by increasing the levels of entropy everywhere else for all of us.
Also the thing about nurses' pay made me so angry. That is why I spend my spare time getting people into unions. (Another way for people to become collectively unoptimisable I suppose!)