The enshittification of labor: Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-07 15:33:52

While I formulated the idea of enshittification to refer to digital platforms and their specific technical characteristics, economics and history, I am very excited to see other theorists extend the idea of enshittification beyond tech and into wider policy realms.

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Pluralistic: The enshittification of labor (07 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The enshittification of labor (07 Nov 2025)

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Hey look at this

* What EFF Needs in a New Executive Director eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/what…

* Complaint v Ireland to European Commission re process appointing ex-Meta lobbyist as Data Protection Commissioner iccl.ie/digital-data/complaint…

* Budget 2025 talks a big competition game but lacks punch donotpassgo.ca/p/budget-2025-t…

* Snug Plug snugplugstore.com/

* Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators with the Industries Who Rarely Have papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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#20yrsago PATRIOT Act secret-superwarrants use is up 10,000 percent washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/cont…

#10yrsago Protopiper: tape-gun-based 3D printer extrudes full-size furniture prototypes youtube.com/watch?v=beRA4sIjxa…

#10yrsago EFF on TPP: all our worst fears confirmed eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/rele…

#10yrsago TPP will ban rules that require source-code disclosure keionline.org/39045

#10yrsago Publicity Rights could give celebrities a veto over creative works eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/eff-…

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#10yrsago How TPP will clobber Canada’s municipal archives and galleries of historical city photos geekman.ca/single-post/2015/11…

#5yrsago HP ends its customers' lives pluralistic.net/2020/11/06/hor…

#1yrago Every internet fight is a speech fight pluralistic.net/2024/11/06/bra…

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Yesterday's threads: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-06 13:22:05

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world; and more!

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

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world (06 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world (06 Nov 2025)

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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:

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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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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #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…

* #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…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #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/…

* #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…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #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…

* #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!

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