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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •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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Good ideas are popular: But they're impolitic.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-07 15:34:46
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* It’s not just Figma economicpopulist.substack.com/…
* These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency propublica.org/article/cfpb-bu…
* The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llm…
* AI Is A Money Trap wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-…
* Precarious Employment in Precarious Futures uncannymagazine.com/article/pr…
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AI Is A Money Trap
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Charlie Stross, Hugo winner web.archive.org/web/2005081002…
#10yrsago Veiny, slick silicone ovipositors youtube.com/watch?v=wkfFZnK5W9…
#10yrsago A treadmill for Slinky toys, for your infinite Slinky-torturing pleasure youtube.com/watch?v=9dinVcBEDh…
#10yrsago The Princess and the Pony, from Kate “Hark a Vagrant” Beaton memex.craphound.com/2015/08/07…
#5yrsago Free the law pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…
#5yrsago Google bans anticompetitive vocabularies pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…
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140 step slinky descent
YouTubeCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Peter Thiel was right pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…
#1yrago The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/rev…
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Pluralistic: 08 Aug 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-06 14:34:59
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:
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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:
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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
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #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
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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)
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* ORG at 20: In conversation with Maria Farrell
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* Why aren't we controlling our own tech? (Co-Op Congress)
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Co-op Congress 2025 – Friday 4 July
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Pluralistic: Good ideas are popular (07 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com/).
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naked capitalism: Finance, economics, politics, power
naked capitalismCory Doctorow
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Support me this summer 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:
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Clarion Write-a-Thon | Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The #LLM Mentalist article is excellent! Reminded me of another great article I read a while ago about how #QAnon was using game theory to induce fervent belief in the accuracy of predictions.
I've seen a few articles already about the tragic consequences for vulnerable psyches who believed a Chatbot 'really understood them'
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A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon
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