Cooking in Maximum Security: A companion volume to "Prisoners' Inventions."

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-24 14:42:29

*Cooking in Maximum Security* is a slim volume of prisoners' recipes and improvised cooking equipment, a testament to the ingenuity of a network of prisoners in Italy's maximum security prisons:

halfletterpress.com/cooking-in…

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Pluralistic: Cooking in Maximum Security (24 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Cooking in Maximum Security (24 Nov 2025)

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Hey look at this

* Bossware booms as bots determine whether you're doing a good job theregister.com/2025/11/23/bos…

* Morality offsets metafilter.com/48233/Dumping-t… (h/t Javier Candiera)

* Nation’s Largest Landlord Is Encouraged to Break the Law With Measly Fine for Price Fixing Scheme That Kept Rents Artificially High and Worsened Homelessness Crisis | naked capitalism nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/na…

* Fran Sans emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-ess… (h/t Nelson Minar)

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#20yrsago Sony rootkit hurts artists web.archive.org/web/2005112512…

#20yrsago Anti-game lawyer loses right to practice law in Alabama arstechnica.com/uncategorized/…

#20yrsago Tech business niches begging to be filled techcrunch.com/2005/11/21/comp…

#20yrsago Giving EU air-passenger data to US DHS is illegal rte.ie/news/2005/1122/70024-eu…

#15yrsago What John Pistole means when he talks about “enhanced” TSA checkpoints youtube.com/watch?v=0wrDzMD_BC…

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#15yrsago Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock explained in 32 seconds youtube.com/watch?v=mJKHFPBwDR…

#15yrsago TSA looks at Adam Savage’s junk, misses his two 12″ razor blades youtube.com/watch?v=q3yaqq9Jjb…

#10yrsago What’s inside a “Hello Barbie” surveillance toy? somersetrecon.com/blog/2015/11…

#10yrsago J Edgar Hoover loved Efrem Zimbalist’s “FBI” muckrock.com/news/archives/201…

#10yrsago Blankets: New edition of Craig Thompson’s graphic masterpiece memex.craphound.com/2015/11/23…

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#10yrsago Randall Munroe does a Q&A with stick-figure comics time.com/4116921/randall-munro…

#10yrsago On the grotesque obsession with accomplished women’s fertility harpers.org/archive/2015/10/th…

#10yrsago How browser extensions steal logins & browsing habits; conduct corporate espionage labs.detectify.com/security-gu…

#10yrsago Activist tricked into 6-year relationship with undercover cop tells her story theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/n…

#5yrsago An Especially Cursed House pluralistic.net/2020/11/22/esp…

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#5yrsago Guatemala's guillotines pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/ops…

#5yrsago The power of procurements pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/ops…

#5yrsago Labor and large firms pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/ops…

#5yrsago A textbook grift pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/ops…

#5yrsago Australian predictive policing tool for kids pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/ops…

#5yrsago Opsec and personal security pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/ops…

#1yrago Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform pluralistic.net/2024/11/23/hac…

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Saturday's threads: Boss preppers; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-22 19:21:59

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Boss preppers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/esc…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 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:

* #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-…

* Virtual: Poetic Technologies with Brian Eno (David Graeber Institute), Dec 8
davidgraeber.institute/poetic-…

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…

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Recent appearances:

* Today in Focus (The Guardian)
theguardian.com/news/audio/202…

* Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library)
crowdcast.io/c/0wzs9iu1q225

* Tech unions against enshittification (TUC)
youtube.com/watch?v=m11hmiHu6T…

* It’s not your job to fix the internet (Vergecast)
theverge.com/podcast/822822/en…

* Enshittification with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel (Peoples & Things)
newbooksnetwork.com/cory-docto…

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

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