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Inside: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
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"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit: Take it from the guy who invented it.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11502809…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-14 16:37:23
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive ghacks.net/2025/08/12/australi…
* Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant gofundme.com/f/support-fobazis…
* J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius dobbstown.org/things-to-buy/
* Quiet politics and the minimum wage dirkmjk.nl/en/453/quiet-politi…
* Reddit will block the Internet Archive theverge.com/news/757538/reddi…
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Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Jay Peters (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Lloyds of London to offer insurance for corporate open source users theregister.com/2005/08/12/ope…
#20yrsago Vampire novel as a work of first-rate science fiction memex.craphound.com/2005/08/14…
#10yrsago Chinese theme-park queue-jumping techniques capndesign.com/archives/2015/0…
#10yrsago Even when you turn on Win 10’s “privacy” flags, it still spies on you arstechnica.com/information-te…
#10yrsago Trickle-down kids’ TV: Sesame Street will air on HBO 9 months before PBS memex.craphound.com/2015/08/14…
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Lloyd's taking on open source IP risk
Gavin Clarke (The Register)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Transgenic mouse company pays academics who cite them in papers badscience.net/2015/08/so-this…
#10yrsago Australian court hands copyright trolls their own asses torrentfreak.com/dallas-buyers…
#10yrsago Student suspended for tweeting two words will get to sue his school, police chief techdirt.com/2015/08/14/school…
#5yrsago Maidan in Belarus pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/sho…
#5yrsago NYC Street View, WPA edition pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/sho…
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Dallas Buyers Club Ruling Devastates Copyright Trolling Down Under * TorrentFreak
Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago NYC homeless lose bathroom access pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/sho…
#5yrsago The CARES Shock Doctrine pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/sho…
#1yrago The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street pluralistic.net/2024/08/14/the…
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Pluralistic: 14 Aug 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11502267…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-13 17:39:15
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."
craphound.com/shop/
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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, 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
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* #Chicago: Enshittification with Kara Swisher (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
oldtownschool.org/concerts/202…
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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…
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
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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:
* The Utopias Podcast
buzzsprout.com/2272465/episode…
* 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…
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Cory Doctorow - Utopias with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan
BuzzsproutCory Doctorow
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