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Cory Doctorow
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Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster.": Families, they fuck you up (magically).
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-19 14:03:47
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia accc.gov.au/media-release/goog…
* The twilight of tech unilateralism programmablemutter.com/p/the-t…
* MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-rep…
* ‘Ad Blocking is Not Piracy’ Decision Overturned By Top German Court torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-i…
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The twilight of tech unilateralism
Henry Farrell (Programmable Mutter)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago US CD/DVD bootlegging is not run by organized crime memex.craphound.com/2005/08/18…
#20yrsago Lem’s tensor algebra poem, annotated web.archive.org/web/2005110701…
#20yrsago Hunter S Thompson’s ashes to be sent high on fireworks nytimes.com/2005/08/22/us/ashe…
#20yrsago Southern Baptist guide to non-gay Disney movies web.archive.org/web/2005091704…
#20yrsago ItPlaysDoom: catalog of devices capable of running Doom web.archive.org/web/2007022618…
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Disney classics you may have missed during the boycott - (BP)
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Women of the Haunted Mansion cosplayers at SDCC youtube.com/watch?v=TJptS52CZI…
#10yrsago Gallery of deserted Chinese amusement parks theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…
#10yrsago New pornoscanners are also useless, cost $160 million politico.com/story/2015/08/air…
#10yrsago Gender and sf awards: who wins and for what antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…
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China's deserted amusement parks – in pictures
The GuardianCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Piracy vs the MPAA: yet another box-office record smashed techdirt.com/2015/08/18/hollyw…
#10yrsago Stephen Hawking’s speech synthesizer now free/open software wired.com/2015/08/stephen-hawk…
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Banksy fans flock to Weston-super-Mare after Dismaland show rumours
Steven Morris (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Giant dump of data purports to be from Ashleymadison.com arstechnica.com/information-te…
#10yrsago Iran arms deal prosecution falls apart because of warrantless laptop search arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#10yrsago The (real) hard problem of AI youtube.com/watch?v=mukaRhQTMP…
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#5yrsago South Africa's copyright and human rights pluralistic.net/2020/08/18/fif…
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Toddler has his Minions Fart Gun confiscated at Dublin Airport for posing security 'threat' | The Independent
Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith (The Independent)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Upbeat surveillance marketing pluralistic.net/2020/08/18/fif…
#5yrsago Fed cops substitute dollars for warrants pluralistic.net/2020/08/18/fif…
#5yrsago Deindustrialization is a market failure pluralistic.net/2020/08/18/fif…
#5yrsago Mr Cook, Tear Down That Wall pluralistic.net/2020/08/18/fif…
#5yrsago "Fuck the algorithm" pluralistic.net/2020/08/18/fif…
#5yrsago The Fifth Pig pluralistic.net/2020/08/18/fif…
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Pluralistic: 18 Aug 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Zuckermuskian solopsism; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-18 15:36:10
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."
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory 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
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
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* #Chicago: Enshittification with Kara Swisher (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
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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
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* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
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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
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* Tariffs vs IP Law (Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons)
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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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