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Inside: Conservativism considered as a movement of bitter rubes; 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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Conservativism considered as a movement of bitter rubes: And the grifters who love them.
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Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Will The Truman Brewery Become Homes Or Offices? spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/2…
* A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors 404media.co/a-startup-is-selli…
* The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui…
* Ryanair mulls bigger bonus for spotting oversized bags bbc.com/news/articles/c75rp3w7…
* Pre-Ordering Books Makes You More of a Citizen of Literature buttondown.com/charliejane/arc…
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago History of the ingredients in a banana split csmonitor.com/2005/0405/p18s02…
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#15yrsago How Heinlein plotted memex.craphound.com/2010/07/21…
#10yrsago Paul Erdős’s FBI file muckrock.com/news/archives/201…
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Where does a sundae come from?
Owen Thomas (The Christian Science Monitor)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Hackers can pwn a Jeep Cherokee from the brakes and steering to the AC and radio wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remo…
#5yrsago Trump's spent a billion on re-election pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the…
#5yrsago As We May Think pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the…
#5yrsago Luxury homes to be washed away pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the…
#5yrsago The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the…
#5yrsago Christopher Brown's Failed State pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the…
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Pluralistic: 21 Jul 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-21 12:42:00
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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Cory 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:
* #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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* #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? (The Agenda/TVO)
youtube.com/watch?v=KJw38uIcmE…
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Co-op Congress 2025 – Friday 4 July
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Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 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:
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Clarion Write-a-Thon | Cory Doctorow
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