A weekend's worth of links: Short hits for a long weekend.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-08-30 15:17:04

Did you know it's possible to cut a hole in a cube such that an identical cube can fit inside it? Really! It's called "Rupert's Property." *All Platonic solids are Rupert!* Except one new shape, which *cannot* fit inside itself. This eldritch polygon is called a Noperthedron!

arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18475

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Pluralistic: A weekend’s worth of links (30 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#20yrago 5.25″ floppies make great CD sleeves web.archive.org/web/2005092414…

#20yrsago Hollywood can break down any door in Delhi web.archive.org/web/2005090306…

#20yrsago Side-band attack tips virtual Blackjack dealer’s hand web.archive.org/web/2005111911…

#20yrsago Judge to RIAA: Keep your “conference center” out of my court web.archive.org/web/2005100103…

#15yrsago Which ebook sellers will allow publishers and writers to opt out of DRM? publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top…

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#15yrsago 10 Rules for Radicals: Lessons from rogue archivist Carl Malamud public.resource.org/rules/

#15yrsago Homeowners’ associations: hives of petty authoritarianism web.archive.org/web/2010060617…

#15yrsago Lynd Ward’s wordless, Depression-era woodcut novels memex.craphound.com/2010/08/29… Zuck calls Apple a monopolist pluralistic.net/2020/08/29/chi…

#10yrago Suit: Wells Fargo sent contractors to break into our house, loot family treasures rescued from Nazis theintercept.com/2015/08/28/we…

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#10yrsago Texas doctor’s consent form for women seeking abortions memex.craphound.com/wp-content…

#10yrsago Spear phishers with suspected ties to Russian government spoof fake EFF domain, attack White House eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/new-…

#10yrsago Rowlf the dog gives a dramatic reading of “Grim Grinning Ghosts.” youtube.com/watch?v=CPMTEJ_IAA…

#5yrsago California's preventable fires pluralistic.net/2020/08/29/chi…

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Thursday's threads: The capitalism of fools; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-08-28 18:24:17

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The capitalism of fools; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/str…

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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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Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...

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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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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…

* NYC: Enshittification at the Brooklyn Public Library, with Lina Khan, Oct 9
bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cory…

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
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* #Chicago: Enshittification with Anand Giridharadas (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
oldtownschool.org/concerts/202…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
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Recent appearances:

* Cory Doctorow DESTROYS Enshittification (QAA Podcast)
soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/…

* Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights (Libro.fm)
pocketcasts.com/podcasts/9349e…

* The Utopias Podcast
buzzsprout.com/2272465/episode…

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The most enshittification-proof way to get the Enshittification audiobook, ebook and hardcover is to pre-order them on my Kickstarter! Help me do an end-run around the Amazon/Audible audiobook monopoly and disenshittify your audiobook experience in the process:

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