Boss preppers: What does a captain of industry have to offer after the shit hits the fan?

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-22 19:09:11

Sometimes, you learn a fact that makes everything else make sense - one of those keystone insights that puts a whole phenomenon into perspective. For example, the fact that preppers are engaged in a very specific type of wish-fulfillment.

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Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 Nov 2025)

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Hey look at this

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* The Dairy Products Theory of Dead Media (2004) bruces.medium.com/the-dairy-pr…

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Thursday's threads: The long game; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-20 10:24:28

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The long game; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/20/if-…

#Pluralistic

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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 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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