Hey look at this

* RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate,sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

* Prisoners’ Inventions lapl.org/events/exhibits/no-pr…

* Inside a Group of Vigilantes who Paint Crosswalks to Protect Pedestrians people.com/inside-secretive-gr…

* AI bubble isn’t new — Karl Marx explained its mechanisms 150 years ago theconversation.com/the-ai-bub…

* Let's See What's Going On Down At The Piss Factory todayintabs.com/p/let-s-see-wh…

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#20yrsago Man flies 1MM miles on a 60 day unlimited ticket, wins 10 more flights web.archive.org/web/2005120303…

#20yrsago Schneier: Aviation security is a bad joke web.archive.org/web/2006021206…

#20yrsago David Byrne gets RIAA warning web.archive.org/web/2005122316…

#20yrsago Sam Buck sued for naming her coffee shop after herself web.archive.org/web/2005123114…

#20yrsago Eek-A-Mouse jamming with Irish pub musicians web.archive.org/web/2005121109…

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#15yrsago Bowls made from melted army men web.archive.org/web/2007101121…

#15yrsago TSA recommends using sexual predator tactics to calm kids at checkpoints web.archive.org/web/2010120404…

#15yrsago University of Glasgow gives away software, patents, consulting gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2…

#15yrsago Judge in Xbox hacker trial unloads both barrels on the prosecution web.archive.org/web/2010120305…

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#10yrsago Scholars and activists stand in solidarity with shuttered research-sharing sites custodians.online/

#10yrsago Mesopotamian boundary stones: the DRM of pre-history web.archive.org/web/2015113021…

#10yrsago Canadian civil servants grooming new minister to repeat Harper’s Internet mistakes michaelgeist.ca/2015/11/what-c…

#5yrsago Distanced stage plays pluralistic.net/2020/12/01/aut…

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Yesterday's threads: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11564535…

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Cory Doctorow

2025-12-01 16:54:06

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/eri…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Meta’s new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta’s feelings (01 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings (01 Dec 2025)

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

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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Upcoming appearances:

* #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
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* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
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Recent appearances:

* We have become slaves to Silicon Valley (Politics JOE)
youtube.com/watch?v=JzEUvh1r5-…

* How Enshittification is Destroying The Internet (Frontline Club)
youtube.com/watch?v=oovsyzB9L-…

* 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…

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Seattle (THURSDAY!), #Madison, CT and #Hamburg!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

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