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Inside: You can't fight enshittification; 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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You can't fight enshittification: (But we can.)
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11494929…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-31 18:38:08
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Peter Beinart - "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning" | The Daily Show youtube.com/watch?v=X5kXCdzt_u… (h/t Gord Doctorow)
* Venezuelan Men Sent to CECOT on What They Endured propublica.org/article/venezue… (h/t Nelson Minar)
* The future of MAGA after Trump garbageday.email/p/the-future-…
* Sundman figures it out! johnsundman.substack.com/ (h/t Ken MacLeod)
* US intelligence pushed DOJ to push HPE-Juniper merger axios.com/2025/07/30/merger-hp…
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Sundman figures it out! | john sundman | Substack
johnsundman.substack.comCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel? memex.craphound.com/2005/07/31…
#10yrsago TSA Behavioral Detection Program’s awful newsletter mocks travellers’ worries theintercept.com/2015/07/31/ts…
#10yrsago German prosecutors give spies a walk, but investigate journalists for “treason” netzpolitik.org/2015/federal-o…
#10yrsago Google diversity boss promised “UK’s first women’s history museum,” built a Jack the Ripper “museum” standard.co.uk/culture/exhibit…
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Cable Street museum which promised to celebrate East End women now devoted to Jack the Ripper | London Evening Standard
Tom Brooks-Pollock (Evening Standard)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Challenge questions suck pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hal…
#20yrsago Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel? memex.craphound.com/2005/07/31…
#10yrsago TSA Behavioral Detection Program’s awful newsletter mocks travellers’ worries theintercept.com/2015/07/31/ts…
#10yrsago German prosecutors give spies a walk, but investigate journalists for “treason” netzpolitik.org/2015/federal-o…
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TSA’s Behavior Detection Program Has a Newsletter, and It’s Ridiculous
Jana Winter (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Google diversity boss promised “UK’s first women’s history museum,” built a Jack the Ripper “museum” standard.co.uk/culture/exhibit…
#5yrsago Challenge questions suck pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hal…
#5yrsago Apple's internal Right to Repair fight pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hal…
#5yrsago Self-bricking medical device pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hal…
#5yrsago Mexico's copyright vs self-determination and national sovereignty pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hal…
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Cable Street museum which promised to celebrate East End women now devoted to Jack the Ripper | London Evening Standard
Tom Brooks-Pollock (Evening Standard)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago I'm being inducted into the Canadian SF/F hall of fame pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hal…
#1yrago The largest campaign finance violation in US history pluralistic.net/2024/07/31/gre…
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Pluralistic: 31 Jul 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Delta's AI-based price-gouging; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11494366…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-30 18:44:52
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:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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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
deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/even…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #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
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
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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? (The Agenda/TVO)
youtube.com/watch?v=KJw38uIcmE…
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Co-op Congress 2025 – Friday 4 July
YouTubeCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: You can’t fight enshittification (31 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory 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:
clarionwriteathon.com/members/…
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Clarion Write-a-Thon | Cory Doctorow
clarionwriteathon.comJaneishly
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Cory Doctorow
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@janeishly EFF operates worldwide, though EFA is US only. Looks like you're in the EU? EDRI is the EU umbrella org for EFF-like groups in the EU, so maybe consult their membership list?
edri.org/about-us/our-network/
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •~~Guess I'll give up forever.~~
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Statement pending a full read of the essay.
Cory Doctorow
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