(Digital) Elbows Up: How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-28 12:19:32

I'm in Toronto to participate in a three-day "speculative design" workshop at OCAD U, where designers, technologists and art students are thinking up cool things Canadians could do if we reformed our tech law:

ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…

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Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025)

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Hey look at this

* The UK Has It Wrong on Digital ID. Here’s Why eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/uk-h…

* Sex Workers Built an ‘Anti-OnlyFans’ to Take Control of Their Profits wired.com/story/sex-workers-bu…

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#20yrago Ten (sensible) startup rules web.archive.org/web/2006032407…

#20yrsago Bosnian town unveils Bruce Lee statue of peace news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainm…

#20yrsago Sony rootkit author asked for free code to lock up music web.archive.org/web/2005113002…

#20yrsago Singapore’s executioner gets fired news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacif…

#20yrsago Pre-history of the Sony rootkit web.archive.org/web/2018112602…

#15yrsago Support the magnetic ribbon industry ribbon! reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ecr…

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#15yrsago Molecular biologist on the dangers of pornoscanners web.archive.org/web/2010112519…

#15yrsago Wunderkammerer front room crammed with nooks web.archive.org/web/2010112518…

#15yrsago Delightful science fiction story in review of $6800 speaker cable amazon.com/review/R3I8VKTCITJC…

#15yrsago German Pirate Party members strip off for Berlin airport scanner protest web.archive.org/web/2010112904…

#10yrsago Dolphin teleportation symposium: now with more Eisenhowers! twitpic.com/3aqqa0

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#10yrsago Vtech breach dumps 4.8m families’ information, toy security is to blame arstechnica.com/information-te…

#10yrsago A Canadian teenager used America’s militarized cops to terrorize women gamers for years nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazin…

#10yrsago What the 1980s would have made of the $5 Raspberry Pi wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/20…

#10yrsago Workaholic Goethe wished he’d been better at carving out time for quiet reflection wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/20…

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Yesterday's threads: Normie diffusion and technophilia; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-27 12:16:09

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Normie diffusion and technophilia; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/27/ear…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Normie diffusion and technophilia (27 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Normie diffusion and technophilia (27 Nov 2025)

^{Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)}

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

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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* #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…

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

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Recent appearances:

* Escape Forward with Cristina Caffarra
escape-forward.com/2025/11/27/…

* Why Every Platform Betrays You (Trust Revolution)
fountain.fm/episode/bJgdt0hJAn…

* How the internet went to sh*t (Prospect Magazine)
prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcast…

* Enshittification and “Breaking Kings” (Web Summit)
youtube.com/watch?v=CpLudlrwS_…

* Enshittification Nation (The Lever)
levernews.com/enshittification…

* Enshittification with Oh God What Now
castbox.fm/episode/Why-Tech-Su…

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

Catch me next in #SanDiego (MONDAY!), #Seattle and #Madison, CT!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

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