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Inside: Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity'; and more!
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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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Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and Cthulhoid horrors.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-01 20:17:26
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Technically Radical: On the Unrecognized Potential of Tech Workers and Hackers wedontagree.net/technically-ra… (h/t Danny O'Brien)
* Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens The Floodgates To U.S. Surveillance techdirt.com/2025/07/30/canada… (h/t Naked Capitalism)
* Epic just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again theverge.com/news/716856/epic-…
* Once Upon a KATAMARI gematsu.com/games/once-upon-a-…
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Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same
Sean Hollister (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Anti-software-patent site taken down by software patent advocates web.archive.org/web/2005102508…
#20yrsago One 3 min MP3 = 5’9″ high stack of punchcards web.archive.org/web/2005080402…
#20yrsago German Harry Potter fan-translation in 45 hours theguardian.com/world/2005/aug…
#10yrsago Re-recording the 1969 “Story and Song of the Haunted Mansion” youtube.com/watch?v=YbJRoi92Il…
#5yrsago Populism is good for your health pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set…
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Germans in a hurry for Harry
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set…
#5yrsago A deep dive into Mexico's new copyright law pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set…
#5yrsago Grace is going home pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set…
#1yrago Why is this Canadian university scared of you seeing its Privacy Impact Assessment? pluralistic.net/2024/08/01/eru…
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Pluralistic: 01 Aug 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: You can't fight enshittification; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-31 18:56:43
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:
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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:
* #SanDiego: ACM Collective Intelligence keynote, Aug 5
ci.acm.org/2025/speakers/cory-…
* #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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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
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* #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:
* 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…
* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again?
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Co-op Congress 2025 – Friday 4 July
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Pluralistic: Mattie Lubchansky’s ‘Simplicity’ (01 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory 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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