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Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon’s chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 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 #Vancouver, #Montreal and #Ottawa!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
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(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs: When your shitty boss is a shitty app and you're not even allowed to call yourself an employee.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-23 20:09:13
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Ethiopia in Talks With China to Convert Dollar Loans to Yuan bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
* This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services wheresyoured.at/costs/
* No Tricks, Just Treats 🎃 EFF’s Halloween Signal Stickers Are Here! eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/no-t…
* How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force propublica.org/article/trump-d…
* Does the Left Have Trouble with Making Things in America? thebignewsletter.com/p/monopol…
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This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Ham operator corrects Morse code on the Disneyland Railroad web.archive.org/web/2005090515…
#20yrsago Accused DUIs demand access to breathalyzer software source-code blog.citp.princeton.edu/2005/1…
#20yrsago How Disneyland’s Mark Twain riverboat sank web.archive.org/web/2005102501…
#15yrsago Old film rejection slip: “All scenes of an unpleasant nature should be eliminated” oldhollywood.tumblr.com/post/1…
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Old Hollywood
oldhollywood (Tumblr)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago T-shirt turns into a zombie web.archive.org/web/2010112313…
#15yrsago Terrified feds try to bar Bunnie Huang from testifying at Xbox jailbreaking trial web.archive.org/web/2010102306…
#15yrsago Derren Brown’s Confessions of a Conjuror: funny memoir is also a meditation on attention, theatrics and psychology memex.craphound.com/2010/10/21…
#10yrsago Wikileaks hosting files from CIA director John Brennan’s AOL account arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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Derren Brown’s Confessions of a Conjuror: funny memoir is also a meditation on attention, theatrics and psychology – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
Cory Doctorow (Cory Doctorow's MEMEX)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Hungarian camerawoman who tripped refugee announces she will sue that refugee techdirt.com/2015/10/21/hungar…
#10yrsago Entropy explained, beautifully, in comic-book form bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/10/…
#10yrsago How a mathematician teaches “Little Brother” to a first-year seminar derekbruff.org/2015/10/21/in-c…
#10yrsago UK “anti-radicalisation” law can take kids from thoughtcriming parents in secret trials techdirt.com/2015/10/21/uk-goe…
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UK Goes Full Orwell: Government To Take Children Away From Parents If They Might Become Radicalized
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago How enforcing a crappy patent bankrupted the Eskimo Pie company web.archive.org/web/2019030907…
#10yrsago TPP means no more domain privacy eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/us-b…
#10yrsago McDonald’s China debuts a cement-gray bun telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink…
#10yrsago Terrorists torch five black Ferguson-area churches, nation yawns web.archive.org/web/2015102019…
#10yrsago HOWTO make a trashcan Stormtrooper helmet scudamor.wordpress.com/2010/10…
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What the History of Eskimo Pies Tells Us About Software Patents Today
Charles Duan (Slate Magazine)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Fable Comics: anthology of great comics artists telling fables from around the world memex.craphound.com/2015/10/22…
#10yrsago J Edgar Hoover fought to write ex-FBI agents out of Hitchcock’s scripts muckrock.com/news/archives/201…
#10yrsago Canada’s new Liberal majority: better than the Tories, still terrible for the Internet memex.craphound.com/2015/10/22…
#10yrsago Forced laborers sue Mississippi debtors’ prison theintercept.com/2015/10/22/la…
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Lawsuit Challenges a Mississippi Debtors Prison
Juan Thompson (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Son of Dieselgate: second line of VWs may have used “defeat devices” reuters.com/article/2015/10/22…
#10yrsago Obama administration petitions judge for no mercy in student debt bankruptcy readersupportednews.org/news-s…
#10yrsago Complexity of financial crimes makes crooks unconvictable web.archive.org/web/2015102201…
#10yrsago Half of Vanuatu’s government is going to jail bbc.com/news/world-asia-346005…
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Vanuatu court sentences 14 MPs to jail for corruption
BBC NewsCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago DHS admits it uses Stingrays for VIPs, vows to sometimes get warrants, stop lying to judges arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#5yrsago Free the law of Wisconsin pluralistic.net/2020/10/22/the…
#5yrsago US border cruelty, powered by Google cloud pluralistic.net/2020/10/22/the…
#5yrsago Companies target robots in disclosures pluralistic.net/2020/10/22/the…
#5yrsago ENDSARS pluralistic.net/2020/10/22/the…
#5yrsago IDing anonymized cops with facial recognition pluralistic.net/2020/10/22/the…
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Pluralistic: 22 Oct 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Falsehoods programmers believe about time pluralistic.net/2020/10/21/eac…
#5yrsago Trustbusting is stimulus pluralistic.net/2020/10/21/eac…
#5yrsago Tom Lehrer in the public domain pluralistic.net/2020/10/21/eac…
#1yrago Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar pluralistic.net/2024/10/21/we-…
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Pluralistic: Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar (21 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)Cory Doctorow
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Monday's threads: Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach'; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-21 18:09:34
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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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (X (formerly Twitter))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/
Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
showpass.com/2025-festival-39/
* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
attentionconferences.com/confe…
* #Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, Oct 24
mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/even…
* #Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 25
writersfestival.org/events/fal…
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Cory Doctorow launches Enshittification | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
mtl.drawnandquarterly.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Toronto: Enshittification with Dan Werb (Type Books), Oct 27
instagram.com/p/DO81_1VDngu/?i…
* #Barcelona: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
cloudfest.com/usa/
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CloudFest USA
CloudFest USACory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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…
* #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…
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Web Summit, Lisbon
Web SummitCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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/…
* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…
* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…
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Neuroscience, AI, and Society
Computational Neuroscience CenterCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…
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Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* 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…
* Enshittification (The Gist)
youtube.com/watch?v=EgBiv_KchI…
* Canadian tariffs with Avi Lewis
plagal.wordpress.com/2025/10/1…
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A Rundown of Big Tech's Shady Tactics and How to Stop It | Cory Doctorow, Ensh*ttification
The Gist (YouTube)Black Cat ★ Red Cat
2025-10-15 02:03:32
Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon’s chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 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 #Vancouver, #Montreal and #Ottawa!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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