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Inside: (Digital) Elbows Up; and more!
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Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)


Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •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:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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(Digital) Elbows Up: How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11562728…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-28 12:19:32
Cory Doctorow
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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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The UK Has It Wrong on Digital ID. Here’s Why.
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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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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Reddit - The heart of the internet
geckospots (reddit)Cory Doctorow
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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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Villa J by Marge Arkitekter
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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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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When children are breached—inside the massive VTech hack
Ars Staff (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Normie diffusion and technophilia; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11562161…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-27 12:16:09
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:
* #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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Poetic technologies with Cory Doctorow and Brian Eno
koshika (David Graeber Institute)Cory Doctorow
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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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Enshittification and “Breaking Kings” (with Cory Doctorow at Web Summit)
revolution.social with @rabble (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)Cory Doctorow
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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:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Well yes. Agree 💯 This would be great. However after yesterday I have come to the conclusion that Carney really has got the wrong end of the stick.
He is either being very badly advised by his circle of Bay St bros, or is completely lacking any kind of imagination. Perhaps both. A major project like "De-Enshitifying" Canada would be simply beyond their grasp.
Sorry about the negativity but its how it feels to be on the BC coast today....
#Canada
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