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Inside: Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor; and more!
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Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor: But states hate noncompete "agreements."
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-03 09:31:36
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* What's Going on Online ninetiesinternet.com/
* State Department Wants to Know Student Visa Applicants’ Myspace Accounts theintercept.com/2025/07/01/tr…
* The bug in the letter, part 2 robinsloan.com/lab/bug-in-the-…
* Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him prospect.org/politics/2025-07-…
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Want a Student Visa? The U.S. Government Needs Your Vine Account.
Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Futures for SF writers that aren’t the Singularity rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/08/25…
#10yrsago Secret court will let NSA do mass surveillance for another six months arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#10yrsago Bigoted officials: First Amendment means we don’t have to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples edition.cnn.com/2015/06/30/us/…
#10yrsago McKinney, TX wants $79K to retreive emails of the cop who tackled bikini-clad teen techdirt.com/2015/06/30/city-c…
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City Claims It Will Take 9,000 Hours And $79,000 To Fulfill Gawker's Request Emails Related To Abusive Police Officer
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago We’ve evolved to disbelieve evolution npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/06/…
#10yrsago US Customs and Border Protection: America’s largest, most corrupt police force latimes.com/nation/la-na-borde…
#5yrsago Snowden on Little Brother pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bos…
#5yrsago Sun Ra's syllabus pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bos…
#5yrsago Invigilation CEO doxes student pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bos…
#5yrsago Big Cop's corporate armorers pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bos…
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Border Patrol needs to crack down on internal corruption, report says
Brian Bennett (Los Angeles Times)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Bossware pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bos…
#5yrsago EFF on EU interoperability policy pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bos…
#1yrago Austin Grossman's 'Fight Me' pluralistic.net/2024/07/01/the…
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Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts"; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-02 08:29:45
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 next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Cory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from 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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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
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* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
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* Virtual: ORG at 20: in conversation with Maria Farrell, Jul 16
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* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again? (The Agenda/TVO)
youtube.com/watch?v=KJw38uIcmE…
* Forward Kentucky
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* Democrats Abroad
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Cory Doctorow on Enshittification by Democrats Abroad: The Blue Vote Café
Spotify for CreatorsCory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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I'm going offline for a family vacation, so this is the last Pluralistic until July 14. See you then!
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