Zohran Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker: Lina Khan has plans for New York City.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-15 20:39:26

The most exciting thing about Biden's antitrust enforcers was how *good* they were at their jobs. They were dead-on chapter-and-verse on every authority and statute available to the administrative branch, and they set about in earnest figuring out how to use those powers to help the American people:

eff.org/de/deeplinks/2021/08/p…

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Party Like It’s 1979: The OG Antitrust Is Back, Baby!

President Biden’s July 9 Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy is a highly technical, 72-part, fine-grained memo on how to address the ways market concentration harms our lives as workers, citizens, consumers, and beyond.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

Hey look at this

* A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF scottedelman.com/wordpress/202…

* The algorithm failed music theverge.com/column/815744/mus… (h/t JWZ)

* Why the filibuster? coreyrobin.com/2025/11/11/why-…

* Britain’s Railway Privatization Was an Abject Failure rosalux.de/en/news/id/53917/br…

* The lawsuit is over! linkletter.org/update-33-the-l…

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#20yrsago Sony begins to recall some infected CDs web.archive.org/web/2005112723…

#20yrsago Sony’s rootkit uninstaller is *really* dangerous blog.citp.princeton.edu/2005/1…

#20yrsago Table made from ancient, giant hard-drive platter web.archive.org/web/2005092918…

#20yrsago EFF to Sony: you broke it, you oughta fix it web.archive.org/web/2005112608…

#20yrsago Sony anti-customer technology roundup and time-line memex.craphound.com/2005/11/14…

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#20yrsago Visa’s “free” laptop costs at least $60 more than retail in fees web.archive.org/web/2005112505…

#20yrsago Sony’s rootkit infringes on software copyrights web.archive.org/web/2006110815…

#20yrsago Gizmodo flamed by crazy inventor; turns out he’s a crook web.archive.org/web/2005112610…

#20yrsago Fox counsels viewers to share videos of shows memex.craphound.com/2005/11/13…

#20yrsago Sony’s malware uninstaller leaves your computer vulnerable hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/

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#15yrsago Tim Wu on the new monopolists: a “last chapter” for The Master Switch web.archive.org/web/2015121401…

#15yrsago Man at San Diego airport opts out of porno scanner and grope, told he’ll be fined $10K unless he submits to fondling johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/1…

#10yrsago 100 useful tips from a bygone era digitalcollections.nypl.org/se…

#10yrsago Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/a…

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#10yrsago Startup uses ultrasound chirps to covertly link and track all your devices arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Cop who unplugged his cam before killing a 19-year-old girl is rehired arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Hospitals are patient zero for the Internet of Things infosec epidemic web.archive.org/web/2015111305…

#10yrsago Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s FBI files muckrock.com/news/archives/201…

#10yrsago I-Spy Surveillance Books: a child’s first Snoopers Charter scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/11/…

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#10yrsago China routinely tortures human rights lawyers businessinsider.com/amnesty-in…

#10yrsago Fordite: a rare mineral only found in old Detroit auto-painting facilities miningeology.blogspot.com/2015…

#10yrsago Facebook won’t remove photo of children tricked into posing for neo-fascist group bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottin…

#5yrsago Big Car wants to pump the brakes on Right to Repair pluralistic.net/2020/11/13/sai…

#1yrago America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable pluralistic.net/2024/11/13/las…

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Yesterday's threads: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-13 13:16:59

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/13/pat…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025)

^{Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)}

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

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new...

^{SupaduDev (Macmillan Publishers)}

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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Upcoming appearances:

* #London: Downstream IRL with Zack Polanski, Ash Sarkar, and Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…

* #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…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…

* #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…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…

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Recent appearances:

* 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…

* Enshittification and How To Fight It (ILSR)
whoshallrule.com/p/enshittific…

* Big Tech’s “Enshittification” & Bill McKibben on Solar Hope for the Planet
writersvoice.net/2025/11/cory-…

* Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFy…

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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:

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