A year in illustration (2025 edition): I think I'm getting the hang of this?

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Cory Doctorow

2025-12-03 19:39:35

One of the most surprising professional/creative developments of my middle-age has been discovering my love of collage. I've never been a visual person. I can't draw, I can't guess if a piece of furniture will fit in a given niche, I can't catch a ball, and I can't tell you if a picture is crooked.

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Pluralistic: A year in illustration (2025 edition) (03 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: A year in illustration (2025 edition) (03 Dec 2025)

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Hey look at this

* David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert youtube.com/watch?v=PNmcF6eRE7… (h/t Kottke)

* Hundreds of Porsche Owners in Russia Unable to Start Cars After System Failure themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/02/…

* The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users gizmodo.com/the-enshittificati…

* What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026? publicdomainreview.org/feature…

* Mastodon CEO change, 2026 reset manton.org/2025/12/02/mastodon… (h/t Mitch Wagner)

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#20yrsago Sony Rootkit Roundup IV memex.craphound.com/2005/12/02…

#20yrsago How can you tell if a CD is infectious? web.archive.org/web/2005120504…

#20yrsago France about to get worst copyright law in Europe? web.archive.org/web/2006011103…

#15yrsago UNC team builds 3D model of Rome using Flickr photos on a single PC in one day readwrite.com/flickr_rome_3d_d…

#15yrsago Schneier’s modest proposal: Close the Washington monument! schneier.com/essays/archives/2…

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#15yrsago Tea Party Nation President proposes taking vote away from tenants web.archive.org/web/2010120401…

#15yrsago What it’s like to be a cocaine submarine captain web.archive.org/web/2012060208…

#10yrsago A profile of America’s killingest cops: the police of Kern County, CA theguardian.com/us-news/2015/d…

#10yrsago The word “taser” comes from an old racist science fiction novel theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#10yrsago HOWTO pack a suit so it doesn’t wrinkle youtube.com/watch?v=ug58yeMqNC…

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#10yrsago Newly discovered WEB Du Bois science fiction story reveals more Afrofuturist history slate.com/technology/2015/12/t…

#10yrsago A roadmap for killing TPP: the next SOPA uprising! eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/tpp-…

#10yrsago Wikipedia Russia suspends editor who tried to cut deal with Russian authorities themoscowtimes.com/archive/rus…

#10yrsago Vtech toy data-breach gets worse: 6.3 million children implicated web.archive.org/web/2015120403…

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#10yrsago Ironically, modern surveillance states are baffled by people who change countries memex.craphound.com/2015/12/02…

#10yrsago Mozilla will let go of Thunderbird techcrunch.com/2015/11/30/thun…

#10yrsago Rosa Parks was a radical, lifelong black liberation activist, not a “meek seamstress” web.archive.org/web/2015120822…

#10yrsago Racist algorithms: how Big Data makes bias seem objective fordfoundation.org/news-and-st…

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#5yrsago Nalo Hopkinson, Science Fiction Grand Master pluralistic.net/2020/12/02/in-…

#1yrago All the books I reviewed in 2024 pluralistic.net/2024/12/02/boo…

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Yesterday's threads: All the books I reviewed in 2025; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-12-02 13:44:25

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2025; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/02/con…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2025 (02 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2025 (02 Dec 2025)

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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 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:

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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...

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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:

* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…

* Virtual: Poetic Technologies with Brian Eno (David Graeber Institute), Dec 8
davidgraeber.institute/poetic-…

* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…

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

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Recent appearances:

* We have become slaves to Silicon Valley (Politics JOE)
youtube.com/watch?v=JzEUvh1r5-…

* How Enshittification is Destroying The Internet (Frontline Club)
youtube.com/watch?v=oovsyzB9L-…

* Escape Forward with Cristina Caffarra
escape-forward.com/2025/11/27/…

* Why Every Platform Betrays You (Trust Revolution)
fountain.fm/episode/bJgdt0hJAn…

* How the internet went to sh*t (Prospect Magazine)
prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcast…

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