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Inside: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity; and more!
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Pluralistic: America’s collapsing consumption is the world’s disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
I hope you can make it!
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity: America's loss is the post-American internet's gain.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11573047…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-12-16 17:40:40
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* The Ross Dowson Archive archive.org/details/rossdowson…
* The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI distro.f-91w.club/reverse-cent…
* Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2025 Edition craphound.com/news/2025/12/14/…
* Old Teslas Are Falling Apart futurism.com/advanced-transpor… (h/t Naked Capitalism)
* EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws eff.org/press/releases/eff-lau…
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Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
Frank Landymore (Futurism)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago PSP 2.01 firmware unlocked web.archive.org/web/2006011501…
#20yrsago HOWTO make a DRM CD blog.citp.princeton.edu/2005/1…
#15yrsago DanKam: mobile app to correct color blindness web.archive.org/web/2010121704…
#15yrsago UBS’s 43-page dress code requires tie-knots that match your facial morphology web.archive.org/web/2015111507…
#15yrsago UK demonstrator challenges legality of “kettling” protestors web.archive.org/web/2010121907…
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Dress to Impress, UBS Tells Staff
WSJCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Backyard M*A*S*H set replica imgur.com/a/mash-ztcon
#15yrsago Bottle-opener shaped like a prohibitionist web.archive.org/web/2010122206…)
#15yrsago Typewriter ribbon tins thedieline.com/vintage-packagi…
#10yrsago Sometimes, starting the Y-axis at zero is the BEST way to lie with statistics youtube.com/watch?v=14VYnFhBKc…
#10yrsago DEA ignored prosecutor’s warning about illegal wiretap warrants, now it’s losing big usatoday.com/story/news/2015/1…
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Shut up about the y-axis. It shouldn’t always start at zero.
Vox (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Lifelock anti-identity theft service helped man stalk his ex-wife azcentral.com/story/money/busi…
#10yrsago EFF and Human Rights Watch force DEA to destroy its mass surveillance database eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/vict…
#10yrsago Do Androids Dream of Electric Victim-Blamers? neverbeenmad.tumblr.com/post/1…
#10yrsago Billionaire GOP superdonors aren’t getting what they paid for web.archive.org/web/2018111919…
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LifeLock used to electronically track Arizona woman
Robert Anglen (The Arizona Republic)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago EU competition rules have real teeth pluralistic.net/2020/12/15/iow…
#5yrsago Asset forfeiture is just theft pluralistic.net/2020/12/15/iow…
#5yrsago Pornhub and payment processors pluralistic.net/2020/12/15/iow…
#5yrsago Blockchain voting is bullshit pluralistic.net/2020/12/15/iow…
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Pluralistic: 15 Dec 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11572611…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-12-15 23:14:09
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 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
SupaduDev (Macmillan Publishers)Cory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
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COSine – Colorado Springs, Colorado
Arlen (COSine)Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU)
vimeo.com/1146281673
* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
youtube.com/watch?v=34gkIvYiHx…
* Enshittification on The Daily Show
youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5n…
* Enshittification with Four Ways to Change the World (Channel 4)
youtube.com/watch?v=tZQaEeuuI3…
* The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. (Novarra Media)
youtube.com/watch?v=7wE8G-d7Sn…
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Cory Doctorow: why Facebook and Google are incentivised to make their products worse
Channel 4 News (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: America’s collapsing consumption is the world’s disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)Cory Doctorow
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I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
I hope you can make it!
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
EventbriteCurtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)
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"replace bad union bosses" really guts me. In theory, I support unions. People should have a voice.
In practice, the interactions I or my friends have had with unions have been very bad. I don't want to be a corporate shill, but looking at unions at the BBC, the London Underground, and my friends back in the US who've dealt with them, how do we stop unions from being as awful as the companies?
I'm fairly left, but my experience with unions has been shit.
Alfred J. Kwak (audiokontor) ☕
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