Hey look at this

* Lina Khan co-chairs Mamdani's transition team nytimes.com/live/2025/11/05/ny…

* The Democrats' problem in the Senate is not progressives gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats…

* How anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism. cjr.org/analysis/nigeria-pakis…

* Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

* Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List wired.com/story/hack-exposes-k…

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#20yrsago BBC Archive database — early info web.archive.org/web/2005110202…

#20yrsago Sony releases de-rootkit-ifier, lies about risks from rootkits web.archive.org/web/2005112608…

#20yrsago Pew study: Kids remix like hell web.archive.org/web/2005110402…

#15yrsago How I use the Internet when I’m playing with my kid theguardian.com/technology/201…

#15yrsago Bedtime Story: Supernatural thriller about the dark side of “getting lost in a good book” memex.craphound.com/2010/11/02…

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#15yrsago The Master Switch: Tim “Net Neutrality” Wu explains what’s at stake in the battle for net freedom memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01…

#15yrsago Times Online claims 200K paid users: but where’s the detailed breakdown? memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01…

#15yrsago Duelling useless machines: a metaphor for polarized politics youtube.com/watch?v=UkgoSOSGrx…

#15yrsago Hari Prasad, India’s evoting researcher, working to save Indian democracy from dirty voting machines eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/2010…

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#15yrsago Science fiction tells us all laws are local — just like the Web locusmag.com/feature/cory-doct…

#15yrsago UK Lord claims mysterious "foundation" wants to give Britain £17B, no strings attached antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…

#15yrsago New Zealand proposes “guilty until proven innocent” copyright law to punish accused infringers arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#15yrsago Toronto cops who removed their name-tags during the G20 to avoid identification will be docked a day’s pay web.archive.org/web/2010110714… /

#15yrsago $2K bounty for free/open Kinect drivers (Microsoft thinks this is illegal!) blog.adafruit.com/2010/11/04/t…

#15yrsago TSA official slipped white powder into fliers’ bags, told them they’d been caught with coke and were under arrest thesmokinggun.com/documents/st…

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#10yrsago Firefox’s new privacy mode also blocks tracking ads web.archive.org/web/2015110408…

#10yrsago Predatory lenders trick Google into serving ads to desperate, broke searchers theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

#10yrsago Fighting Uber’s Death Star with a Rebel Alliance of co-op platforms web.archive.org/web/2015110702…

#10yrsago If the Kochs want criminal justice reform, why do they fund tough-on-crime GOP candidates? theintercept.com/2015/11/03/so…

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#20yrsago BBC Archive database — early info web.archive.org/web/2005110202…

#20yrsago Sony releases de-rootkit-ifier, lies about risks from rootkits web.archive.org/web/2005112608…

#20yrsago Pew study: Kids remix like hell web.archive.org/web/2005110402…

#15yrsago How I use the Internet when I’m playing with my kid theguardian.com/technology/201…

#15yrsago Bedtime Story: Supernatural thriller about the dark side of “getting lost in a good book” memex.craphound.com/2010/11/02…

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#15yrsago The Master Switch: Tim “Net Neutrality” Wu explains what’s at stake in the battle for net freedom memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01…

#15yrsago Times Online claims 200K paid users: but where’s the detailed breakdown? memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01…

#15yrsago Duelling useless machines: a metaphor for polarized politics youtube.com/watch?v=UkgoSOSGrx…

#15yrsago Hari Prasad, India’s evoting researcher, working to save Indian democracy from dirty voting machines eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/2010…

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#10yrsago Chelsea Manning publishes a 129-page surveillance reform bill from her cell in Leavenworth web.archive.org/web/2015110317…

#10yrsago EPA finds more Dieselgate emissions fraud in VW’s Audis and Porsches nytimes.com/2015/11/03/busines…

#10yrsago Ranking Internet companies’ data-handling: a test they all fail theguardian.com/technology/201…

#10yrsago Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century booktwo.org/notebook/big-data-…

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#10yrsago Made to Kill: 1960s killer-robot noir detective novel memex.craphound.com/2015/11/03…

#10yrsago Chrome won’t trust Symantec-backed SSL as of Jun 1 unless they account for bogus certs security.googleblog.com/2015/1…

#10yrsago Beautiful, free/open 3D printed book of lost Louis H. Sullivan architectural ornaments web.archive.org/web/2015110923…

#10yrsago America’s a rigged carnival game that rips off the poor to fatten the rich web.archive.org/web/2015110401…

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#10yrsago As America’s middle class collapses, no one is buying stuff anymore web.archive.org/web/2015110514…

#10yrsago Irish government to decriminalise personal quantities of many drugs irishtimes.com/news/ireland/ir…

#10yrsago Book and Bed: Tokyo’s coffin hotel/bookstore bookandbedtokyo.com/en/

#10yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Aurora”: space is bigger than you think memex.craphound.com/2015/11/02…

#5yrsago Trustbusting Google pluralistic.net/2020/11/02/unb…

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#5yrsago Trump billed the White House $3 per glass of waterhttps://pluralistic.net/2020/11/02/unborked/#beltway-bandits

#5yrsago Trump's electoral equilibrium pluralistic.net/2020/11/02/unb…

#5yrsago A hopeful future pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/som…

#5yrsago Get an extra vote pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/som…

#5yrsago How Audible robs indie audiobook creatorshttps://pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/somebody-will/#acx

#5yrsago Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/som…

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#1yrago Bluesky and enshittification pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

#1yrago Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever pluralistic.net/2024/11/01/ban…

#1yrago Neal Stephenson's "Polostan" pluralistic.net/2024/11/04/bom…

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Yesterday's threads: "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works"; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11549814…

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-05 16:57:49

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/xor…

#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:

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…

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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:

us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…

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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...

^{SupaduDev (Macmillan Publishers)}

My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, 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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Upcoming appearances:

* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
cloudfest.com/usa/

* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
burbankbookfestival.com/

* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
websummit.com/sessions/lis25/9…

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/event…

* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…

* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…

* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-pres…

* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…

* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
libraryfoundationsd.org/events…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…

* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…

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Recent appearances:

* Reimagining Digital Public Infrastructure (Attention: Govern Or Be Governed)
youtube.com/watch?v=F8JuXDfDtB…

* Enshittification and How To Fight It (ILSR)
whoshallrule.com/p/enshittific…

* Big Tech’s “Enshittification” & Bill McKibben on Solar Hope for the Planet
writersvoice.net/2025/11/cory-…

* Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFy…

* Amanpour & Co (New Yorker Radio Hour)
youtube.com/watch?v=I8l1uSb0LZ…

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Burbank, #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

pluralistic.net/tour

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