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#1yrago Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate pluralistic.net/2024/12/17/das…

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Yesterday's threads: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11573607…

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Cory Doctorow

2025-12-17 17:26:42

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/17/boo…

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Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! (17 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! (17 Dec 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:

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

* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…

* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/

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Recent appearances:

* Enshittification on The Last Show With David Cooper:
iheart.com/podcast/256-the-las…

* (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU)
vimeo.com/1146281673

* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
youtube.com/watch?v=34gkIvYiHx…

* Enshittification on The Daily Show
youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5n…

* Enshittification with Four Ways to Change the World (Channel 4)
youtube.com/watch?v=tZQaEeuuI3…

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I'm at the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…

and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…

I hope you can make it!

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