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Inside: Millionaire on billionaire violence; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
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Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
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Cory Doctorow
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Millionaire on billionaire violence: Let them fight.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-09 13:43:02
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Free 3D models of every D&D monster patreon.com/cw/mz4250 (h/t Maxiemumdamage)
* Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0… (h/t Stef)
* AI disagreements bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-dis…
* An Abundance of Sleaze: How a Beltway Brain Trust Sells Oligarchy to Liberals thebignewsletter.com/p/an-abun…
* Fintech Dystopia: Won’t somebody please think of the innovation? fintechdystopia.com/chapters/c…
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An Abundance of Sleaze: How a Beltway Brain Trust Sells Oligarchy to Liberals
Matt Stoller (BIG by Matt Stoller)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Resistance: YA comic about the kids who served in the French resistance memex.craphound.com/2010/08/09…
#5yrsago Test-proctoring software worsens systemic bias pluralistic.net/2020/08/09/jus…
#5yrsago Commercial real-estate's looming collapse pluralistic.net/2020/08/09/jus…
#1yrago "Carbon neutral" Bitcoin operation founded by coal plant operator wasn't actually carbon neutral pluralistic.net/2024/08/09/ter…
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The Last Musketeer: whimsical, dreamlike, delightful comic – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
memex.craphound.comCory Doctorow
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#1yrago Private equity rips off its investors, too pluralistic.net/2024/08/08/suc…
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Pluralistic: Private equity rips off its investors, too (08 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Thursday's threads: Good ideas are popular; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-07 15:44:37
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
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* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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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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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
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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:
* Tariffs vs IP Law (Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons)
youtube.com/watch?v=LFABFe-5-u…
* ORG at 20: In conversation with Maria Farrell
youtube.com/watch?v=M9H2An_D6i…
* Why aren't we controlling our own tech? (Co-Op Congress)
youtube.com/live/GLrDwHgeCy4?s…
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Co-op Congress 2025 – Friday 4 July
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Cory Doctorow
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It's the LAST DAY to support me in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
clarionwriteathon.com/members/…
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Clarion Write-a-Thon | Cory Doctorow
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Unknown parent • • •Phil Greer
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Unknown parent • • •@flipper Capitol is already doing this my anytime you value your 401k over your fellow workers / community.
"But my investments" is how my inner class traitor often starts a tirade.
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