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Pluralistic: The long game (20 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The long game (20 Nov 2025)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
Cory Doctorow
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Catch me next in #Toronto, #SanDiego and #Seattle!
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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The long game: Breaking up Big Tech is a long-run project.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-20 09:55:42
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-…
* The Age of Extraction the-antimonopolist.ghost.io/th…
* HOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent ‘Anti-Police Agenda’ 404media.co/hope-hacking-confe…
* HOPE CONFERENCE BANNED BY ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY 2600.com/content/hope-conferen…
* unshittified.club unshittified.club/
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Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Daniel Kahn Gillmor (American Civil Liberties Union)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Brit backpackers take Indian call-centre jobs web.archive.org/web/2005121010…
#20yrsago Laser etching doesn’t necessarily void your warranty web.archive.org/web/2005112619…
#20yrsago UCLA to MPAA shill: ARRRRRRR! latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-20…
#20yrsago RIAA prez: Lots of companies secretly install rootkits! It’s no biggie! web.archive.org/web/2005112504…
#20yrsago Sony offers MP3s in replacement for rootkit CDs web.archive.org/web/2005112423…
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Anti-Piracy Message Stumbles at Colleges
Claire Hoffman (Los Angeles Times)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago TSA forces cancer survivor to remove prosthetic breast web.archive.org/web/2010112021…
#15yrsago How the Victorians wiped their bums web.archive.org/web/2010112319…
#15yrsago Understanding the “microcredit crisis” in Andhra Pradesh web.archive.org/web/2010111901…
#15yrsago Canadian Heritage Minister inadvertently damns his own copyright bill web.archive.org/web/2010112105…
#15yrsago TSA confiscates heavily-armed soldiers’ nail-clippers redstate.com/erick/2010/11/18/…
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Another TSA Outrage
Erick Erickson (redstate.com)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Chris McKitterick pirates his own book mckitterick.livejournal.com/65…
#15yrsago Chinese woman kidnapped to labor camp on her wedding day over sarcastic re-Tweet web.archive.org/web/2012060905…
#15yrsago RuneScape devs refuse to cave in to patent trolls web.archive.org/web/2010111901…
#10yrsago Manhattan DA calls for backdoors in all mobile operating systems web.archive.org/web/2015112000… Report on Smartphone Encryption and Public Safety.pdf
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Thoughts on piracy, freedom, and making a living as a writer.
mckitterick.livejournal.comCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Watching paint dry: epic crowfunded troll of the UK film censorship board kickstarter.com/projects/charl…
#10yrsago CEOs are lucky, tall men hbr.org/2015/11/are-successful…
#10yrsago America’s CEOs and hedge funds are starving the nation’s corporations to death reuters.com/investigates/speci…
#10yrsago EU official: all identified Paris attackers were from the EU web.archive.org/web/2015111622…
#10yrsago The Web is pretty great with Javascript turned off wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off…
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Are Successful CEOs Just Lucky?
Walter Frick (Harvard Business Review)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago If the Paris attackers weren’t using cryptography, the next ones will, and so should you insidesources.com/new-york-tim…
#10yrsago Zero: the number of security experts Ted Koppel consulted for hysterical cyberwar book techdirt.com/2015/11/19/ted-ko…
#10yrsago How a paid FBI informant created a terror plot that sent an activist to jail for 9 years theintercept.com/2015/11/19/an…
#10yrsago Google steps up to defend fair use, will fund Youtubers’ legal defenses publicpolicy.googleblog.com/20…
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Ted Koppel Writes Entire Book About How Hackers Will Take Down Our Electric Grid… And Never Spoke To Any Experts
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Alan Moore’s advice to unpublished authors youtube.com/watch?v=CuaWu2uhmR…
#10yrsago Private funding of public services is bankrupting the UK telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11748…
#10yrsago The US government turned down Anne Frank’s visa application reuters.com/article/2007/02/14…
#10yrsago Seriously, try “view source” on google.com xkcd.com/1605/#10yrsago Caterpillar’s heavy vehicles are killswitched subprime computers on wheels web.archive.org/web/2015111916…
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ALAN MOORE - advice to unpublished authors.
Adam Baker (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Tyson execs bet on covid spread in unsafe plant pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/dis…
#5yrsago Disney stiffs writer pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/dis…
#5yrsago Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/dis…
#5yrsago Canada's GDPR pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/alw…
#5yrsago Telehealth chickenizes docs pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/alw…
#5yrsago The Mounties lied about social surveillance pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/alw…
#5yrsago Race, surveillance and tech pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/alw…
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Pluralistic: 18 Nov 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)Cory Doctorow
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#1yrago Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights pluralistic.net/2024/11/18/rig…
#1yrago Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?) pluralistic.net/2024/11/19/bre…
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Pluralistic: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights (18 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)Cory Doctorow
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Tuesday's threads: Disney has lost Roger Rabbit; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-18 15:48:38
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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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* Virtual: Enshittification at the Internet Archive, Nov 21
eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-ens…
* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-pres…
* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…
* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
libraryfoundationsd.org/events…
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Cory Doctorow Talks Enshittification
libraryfoundationsd.orgCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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…
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
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Neuroscience, AI, and Society
Computational Neuroscience CenterCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* It’s not your job to fix the internet (Vergecast)
theverge.com/podcast/822822/en…
* Enshittification with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel (Peoples & Things)
newbooksnetwork.com/cory-docto…
* Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now, with Tim Wu (Oxford Internet Institute)
youtube.com/watch?v=CkYxMQJ9c9…
* Working it out: Job security in the AI era (Web Summit)
websummit.com/summaries/lis25/…
* How to dis-Enshittify the world (Blood In the Machine)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to…
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Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: The long game (20 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Toronto, #SanDiego and #Seattle!
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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Jailbreaking Canada
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