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Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 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 #Miami, #Burbank and #Lisbon!
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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When AI prophecy fails: Hating workers is a hell of a drug.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-29 14:03:23
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Eugene Debs and All Of Us hamiltonnolan.com/p/eugene-deb…
* US Business Cycles 1954-2020 youtube.com/watch?v=vXRC3Rrngc…
* Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI wired.com/story/ai-pr-ed-zitro…
* Worried About AI Monopoly? Embrace Copyright’s Limits lawfaremedia.org/article/worri…
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#31: US Business Cycles 1954-2020
Cowboy Economist (Cowboy Economist) (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Librarian of Congress puts impossible conditions on your right to jailbreak your 3D printer michaelweinberg.org/post/13202…
#10yrsago The two brilliant, prescient 20th century science fiction novels you should read this election season memex.craphound.com/2015/10/28…
#10yrsago Hundreds of city police license plate cams are insecure and can be watched by anyone eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/lice…
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The two brilliant, prescient 20th century science fiction novels you should read this election season – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
Cory Doctorow (Cory Doctorow's MEMEX)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Appeals court holds the FBI is allowed to kidnap and torture Americans outside US borders techdirt.com/2015/10/28/court-…
#10yrsago South Carolina sheriff fires the school-cop who beat up a black girl at her desk theguardian.com/us-news/2015/o…
#10yrsago The more unequal your society is, the more your laws will favor the rich web.archive.org/web/2015102813…
#5yrsago Trump abandons supporters to freeze pluralistic.net/2020/10/28/tru…
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South Carolina sheriff fires deputy seen manhandling teenage girl in video
Jessica Glenza (the Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago RIAA's war on youtube-dl pluralistic.net/2020/10/28/tru…
#1yrago The US Copyright Office frees the McFlurry pluralistic.net/2024/10/28/mcb…
Pluralistic: The US Copyright Office frees the McFlurry (28 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Raymond Biesinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off"; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-28 15:30:32
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:
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
cloudfest.com/usa/
* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
burbankbookfestival.com/
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
websummit.com/sessions/lis25/9…
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Web Summit, Lisbon
Web SummitCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/event…
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…
* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…
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Downstream IRL, Aaron Bastani in conversation with Cory Doctorow Tickets | From £15 | 17 Nov @ EartH, London | DICE
DICECory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…
* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-pres…
* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…
* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…
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Neuroscience, AI, and Society
Computational Neuroscience CenterCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* CA Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFy…
* Amanpour & Co (New Yorker Radio Hour)
youtube.com/watch?v=I8l1uSb0LZ…
* Enshittification is Not Inevitable (Team Human)
teamhuman.fm/episodes/339-cory…
* The Great Enshittening (The Gray Area)
reddit.com/r/philosophypodcast…
* Enshittification (Smart Cookies)
youtube.com/watch?v=-BoORwEPlQ…
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Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron
Clarion West (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 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 #Miami, #Burbank and #Lisbon!
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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