Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death: The bifurcation of justice is always and ever a prelude to fascism.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-10-27 13:42:47

Shake Shack has changed the terms of service for its app, adding a "binding arbitration" clause that bans you from suing the company or joining a class action suit against it:

shakeshack.com/terms-condition…

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Pluralistic: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death (27 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death (27 Oct 2025)

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

Hey look at this

* In Memoriam/gbnewby pgdp.net/wiki/In_Memoriam/gbne… (h/t Hacker News)

* Zohran Mamdani’s 5 Lessons for the Democrats pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/tra…

* The Internet Doesn’t Have to Suck nymag.com/intelligencer/articl…

* How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter jacobin.com/2025/10/enshittifi…

* Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials 404media.co/hackers-say-they-h…

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#20yrsago Katamari Damacy: the text adventure web.archive.org/web/2008101121…

#20yrsago danah boyd’s Friendster papers, all in one place web.archive.org/web/2005102908…

#20yrsago Bruce Sterling’s design future manifesto: viva spime! memex.craphound.com/2005/10/26…

#15yrsago South Korea’s US-led copyright policy leads to 65,000 acts of extrajudicial censorship/disconnection/threats by govt bureaucrats techdirt.com/2010/10/26/a-look…

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#15yrsago British Airways chairman: “stop kowtowing to US aviation security demands” theguardian.com/world/2010/oct…

#15yrsago France: 25,000 families a day at risk of losing Internet access arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#15yrsago Taste receptors in our lungs sense bitterness and respond with opened airways web.archive.org/web/2010102823…

#10yrsago Botnets running on CCTVs and NASs imperva.com/blog/archive/cctv-…

#10yrsago A beautiful data-driven Tube ad from 1928 citymonitor.ai/analysis/1928-a…

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#10yrsago DoJ to Apple: your software is licensed, not sold, so we can force you to decrypt ia600301.us.archive.org/35/ite…

#10yrsago FCC trying to stop phone companies that rip off prisoners’ families web.archive.org/web/2015102301…

#10yrsago Putting your kettle on the Internet of Things makes your wifi passwords an open secret techdirt.com/2015/10/23/easily…

#10yrsago 70% of CEOs’ effect on company performance can be attributed to random chance sciencedaily.com/releases/2015…

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#10yrsago Astounding showpiece table full of hidden compartments nested in hidden compartments youtube.com/watch?v=4sWrgIgBT9…

#10yrsago A beautiful data-driven Tube ad from 1928 citymonitor.ai/analysis/1928-a…

#10yrsago Antioxidants protect cancer cells, help tumors to spread arstechnica.com/science/2015/1…

#10yrsago Investing in David v Goliath: hundreds of millions slosh into litigation finance funds nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazin…

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#10yrsago Globe and Mail: TPP's copyright chapter will cost Canadians hundreds of millions theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ed…

#10yrsago Americans are pretty mellow about climate change, terrified of everything else blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/20…

#10yrsago NSA spying: judge tosses out case because Wikipedia isn’t widely read enough aclu.org/news/national-securit…

#10yrsago Stylish furniture made from discarded supermarket trolleys etiennereijnders.blogspot.com/

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#10yrsago Youtube’s pay TV service makes video-creators a deal they literally can’t refuse techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/yout…

#10yrsago Secret surveillance laws make it impossible to have an informed debate about privacy ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/articl…

#10yrsago Sony licensed stock footage, then branded its creator a pirate for using it himself petapixel.com/2015/10/25/sony-…

#10yrsago Pharma company offers $1/dose version of Martin Shkreli’s drug chicagotribune.com/2015/10/23/…

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#10yrsago IMF: Cheap oil will bankrupt the Saudis in five years web.archive.org/web/2015102605…

#5yrsago Chile restores democratic rule pluralistic.net/2020/10/26/viv…

#5yrsago Phone surveillance, made in Canada pluralistic.net/2020/10/26/viv…

#5yrsago Bob Dylan sings a EULA pluralistic.net/2020/10/25/mus…

#5yrsago Facebook threatens ad-transparency group pluralistic.net/2020/10/25/mus…

#5yrsago RIAA kills youtube-dl pluralistic.net/2020/10/24/120…

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#5yrsago Foxconn out-trumped Trump pluralistic.net/2020/10/23/fox…

#5yrsago Bring back the CCC pluralistic.net/2020/10/23/fox…

#5yrsago Cracking the Ghislaine Maxwell redactions pluralistic.net/2020/10/23/fox…

#5yrsago Student loans are dischargeable pluralistic.net/2020/10/23/fox…

#1yrago Scientific American endorses Harris pluralistic.net/2024/10/23/eis…

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#1yrago The housing crisis considered as an income crisis pluralistic.net/2024/10/24/i-d…

#1yrago Ian McDonald's "The Wilding" pluralistic.net/2024/10/25/bog…

#1yrago Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/one…

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Thursday's threads: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-10-23 21:21:55

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/tra…

#Pluralistic

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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)

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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:

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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:

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
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* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
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* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
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* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
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* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
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* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
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* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
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* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
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* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
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* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
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Recent appearances:

* CA Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
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* Amanpour & Co (New Yorker Radio Hour)
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* Enshittification is Not Inevitable (Team Human)
teamhuman.fm/episodes/339-cory…

* The Great Enshittening (The Gray Area)
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* Enshittification (Smart Cookies)
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Toronto, #Miami and #Burbank!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

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