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Inside: Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts"; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
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Catch me in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on TONIGHT (July 2):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
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An Evening With Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts": A phantasmagorical memoir of intergenerational trauma and reconciliation.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11478267…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-02 08:23:44
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* FCC will allow prison phone gougers years of ripoffs prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/07/…
* Mitch Kapor finally completes MIT Master's after 45-year detour theregister.com/2025/06/30/mit…
* Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents lithub.com/ted-chiang-on-super… (h/t Kottke)
* AI warnings are the hip new way for CEOs to keep workers afraid of losing jobs edition.cnn.com/2025/06/18/bus… (h/t Ed Zitron)
* Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe…
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Mitch Kapor finally completes MIT master's degree after 45-year detour
Liam Proven (The Register)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Anti-DRM badges web.archive.org/web/2005070100…
#15yrsago ACLU: America is riddled with politically motivated surveillance aclu.org/files/assets/Spyfiles…
#15yrsago Toronto cops justify extreme G20 measures with display of LARPing props, weapons from unrelated busts web.archive.org/web/2010070200…
#15yrsago Copyright best practices for communications scholars web.archive.org/web/2010062800…
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication | Center for Social Media
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago G20 police used imaginary law to jail harass demonstrators and jailed protestors in dangerous and abusive “detention center” memex.craphound.com/2010/06/29…
#10yrsago Why I’m leaving London memex.craphound.com/2015/06/29…
#10yrsago Neal Stephenson on the story behind Seveneves bookotron.com/agony/audio/2015…
#10yrsago Brian Wood’s Starve: get to your comic shop now! memex.craphound.com/2015/06/29…
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Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago BBC’s list of pages de-indexed through Europe’s “right to be forgotten” bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%…
#5yrsago NYC housing lottery favors the least-needy pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/fem…
#5yrsago Facebook and Trump collaborate on rule-rigging pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/fem…
#5yrsago How to break up Google pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/fem…
#5yrsago Female Furies pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/fem…
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BBC pages removed from Google search results
BBCCory Doctorow
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Monday's threads: How much (little) are the AI companies making? and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11477653…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-01 06:22:03
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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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Upcoming appearances:
* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
uk.coop/events-and-training/ev…
* Virtual: ORG at 20: in conversation with Maria Farrell, Jul 16
openrightsgroup.org/events/org…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
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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
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
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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
youtube.com/watch?v=LpMxBBMBkZ…
* Democrats Abroad
creators.spotify.com/pod/profi…
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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 on the LAST STOP of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!
Catch me in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on TONIGHT (July 2):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
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An Evening With Cory Doctorow
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