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Inside: What's a "public internet?"; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!
Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on July 1:
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And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:
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Cory Doctorow – The Fight Against the Big Tech Oligarchy | How To Academy
How To AcademyCory Doctorow
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What's a "public internet?": You don't want Nigel Farage moderating your social media, right?
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Cory Doctorow
2025-06-25 20:43:46
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Jailbroken: A Story of Corporate Overreach, Police Abuse of Power, and Modern Tech gofundme.com/f/help-selfpublis…
* Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser – The Blockbuster to End All Blockbusters nordiclarp.org/2025/06/20/star…
* MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/mit…
* Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice theonion.com/letter-to-congres…
* Dems’ Crypto Schemers Have Entered The Chat levernews.com/dems-crypto-sche…
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Dems’ Crypto Schemers Have Entered The Chat
The LeverCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Tit of justice reinstated by Supreme Torturer Gonzales web.archive.org/web/2005091017…
#20yrsago What tomorrow’s Grokster SCOTUS ruling will mean web.archive.org/web/2005082711…
#15yrsago Toronto’s secret ID law used to arrest G20 protestor web.archive.org/web/2010062802…
#10yrsago Why parents in Cincinnati camp out for 16 days to get a kindergarten spot medium.com/@hellogerard/waitin…
#10yrsago Stephen Harper ready to sign TPP and throw Tory rural base under the bus memex.craphound.com/2015/06/25…
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Waiting For Kindergarten - Gerard Sychay - Medium
Gerard Sychay (Medium)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago How the UK Prime Minister’s office gets around Freedom of Information requests independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…
#10yrsago They’re tearing down the Adventurer’s Club memex.craphound.com/2015/06/25…
#10yrsago David Byrne and St Vincent celebrate Color Guard with astounding Contemporary Color show youtube.com/watch?v=K8jSWQtC_f…
#5yrsago 759 Trump atrocities pluralistic.net/2020/06/25/can…
#5yrsago How Big Tech distorts discourse pluralistic.net/2020/06/25/can…
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Downing Street accused of deliberate attempt to avoid freedom of information requests as ex-staff reveal 'dysfunctional' automated deletion system | The Independent
Matt Dathan (The Independent)Cory Doctorow
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#1yrago Mirion Malle's "So Long Sad Love" pluralistic.net/2024/06/25/mis…
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Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-06-24 13:40:57
Cory Doctorow
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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
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Both are national bestsellers!
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover) | Book Soup
www.booksoup.comCory 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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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* Virtual: Surveillance Capitalism: Who owns your data? (World Salon), Jun 26
world-salon.com/event/95
* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
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* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
uk.coop/events-and-training/ev…
* Virtual: ORG at 20: in conversation with Maria Farrell, Jul 16
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Cory Doctorow – The Fight Against the Big Tech Oligarchy | How To Academy
How To AcademyCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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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:
* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again? (The Agenda/TVO)
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* Forward Kentucky
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* Democrats Abroad
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Cory Doctorow on Enshittification by Democrats Abroad: The Blue Vote Café
Spotify for CreatorsCory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!
Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on July 1:
howtoacademy.com/events/cory-d…
And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
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Cory Doctorow – The Fight Against the Big Tech Oligarchy | How To Academy
How To AcademyNick Taylor
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •And thank you for coming all the way to NZ - so few ever do, on account of it being so far away from the rest of the world that it is practically on the moon.
The bit that echoed the longest was the Corpus callosum severance story, where the spoken word is the spark that jumped the gap.
The analogue hole between McGilchristian hemispheres... and I'm prone to going a bit Milton/Blake on the whole thing so am tempted to see the gap between the hemispheres as being a literal physical instantiation of The War in Heaven - and "in the beginning was the word" has a certain ring to it.
So thanks for that 😀
Cory Doctorow
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