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Cory Doctorow
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Catch me next in #Cambridge, MA; Washington, #DC and #Brooklyn!
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
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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They're just trying to earn a buck: No, they're taking what they can get.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11533355…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-07 15:18:42
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* The Unexpected New Threat to Video Creators anildash.com/2025/10/07/the-th…
* Breaking: Amazon Actually Employs Its Delivery Drivers prospect.org/labor/2025-10-06-…
* Why Did Hotel Rates Surge in Vegas? (Hint: It’s Wasn’t the Demand) thesling.org/why-did-hotel-rat…
* The Socialist Case for Antitrust prospect.org/economy/2025-10-0…
* Brown Stage Capitalism prospect.org/culture/books/202…
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Why Did Hotel Rates Surge in Vegas? (Hint: It’s Wasn’t the Demand) - The Sling
Hal Singer (The Sling)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Lawmaker: I'll fight the Broadcast Flag web.archive.org/web/2007111423…
#20yrsago Google launches a feedreader web.archive.org/web/2009021007…
#20yrsago Soviet PCs homecomputer.de/pages/easteuro…
#20yrsago Soviet pocket-calculators web.archive.org/web/2005101306…
#20yrsago Bill Gates shouts at Sony CEO that his crappy DRM is less crappy web.archive.org/web/2005101308…
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HCM: East-European Home-Computer ...
www.homecomputer.deCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Guy who was busted “for using lynx” found guilty web.archive.org/web/2005110101…
#20yrsago It’s legal to break DRM in Australia, sez High Court smh.com.au/technology/court-al…
#15yrsago HOWTO make a Storm Trooper helmet out of a milk jug filthwizardry.com/2010/10/milk…
#15yrsago Nigerian Sesame Street will feature HIV-positive muppet web.archive.org/web/2010100618…
#15yrsago Norwegian musicians’ income goes up by 66% 1999-2009, while record sales decline by 50% appliedabstractions.com/2010/1…
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Milk Jug Storm Trooper Helmet
www.filthwizardry.comCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago USA caves on secret Internet treaty web.archive.org/web/2010100704…
#15yrsago NM cops raid Montessori School greenhouse for pot, find tomatoes web.archive.org/web/2010100802…
#15yrsago Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From: multidisciplinary hymn to diversity, openness and creativity memex.craphound.com/2010/10/06…
#10yrsago Kim Davis isn’t doing her job. Again. muckrock.com/news/archives/201…
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Kim Davis is “old school” about public records requests
MuckRock FoundationCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Howto make Zombie Mouth cupcakes instructables.com/Zombie-Mouth… HOWTO make a realistic brain-cake for your zombie parties web.archive.org/web/2015101003…
#10yrsago Algorithmic guilt: defendants must be able to inspect source code in forensic devices web.archive.org/web/2019042112…
#10yrsago Make a booze flask hidden in a baby instructables.com/baby-flask/
#10yrsago NYPD steal black woman banker’s BMW, commit her when she asks for it back web.archive.org/web/2015100203…
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Baby Flask
InstructablesCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago How guards and prosecutors retaliate against solitary confinement prisoners who blow the whistle web.archive.org/web/2015100619…
#10yrsago What the barcode on your discarded boarding-pass reveals krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/wh…
#10yrsago Bankers’ “Vulnerability Index”: scoring employees’ desperation rifters.com/crawl/?p=521
#10yrsago NZ government leaks on TPP: copyright terms will go to life plus 70 years web.archive.org/web/2015100718…
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What’s in a Boarding Pass Barcode? A Lot
krebsonsecurity.comCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago What’s the objectively optimal copyright term? timharford.com/2015/10/copyrig…
#10yrsago Genocide, not genes: indigenous peoples’ genetic alcoholism is a racist myth theverge.com/2015/10/2/9428659…
#10yrsago Global coalition tells Facebook to kill its Real Names policy eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/glob…
#10yrsago Primer explains the spying tech your local cops are using eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/law-…
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No, Native Americans aren’t genetically more susceptible to alcoholism
Maia Szalavitz (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago EU top court: NSA spying means US servers are not a fit home for Europeans’ data eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/euro…
#5yrsago America's wild hog "pig bomb" pluralistic.net/2020/10/06/hyb…
#5yrsago Maine's drunken, thieving, bumbling, child-porning public defenders pluralistic.net/2020/10/06/hyb…
#5yrsago Congress's Big Tech trustbusting smackdown pluralistic.net/2020/10/07/goo…
#5yrsago Hackers can remotely lock IoT cock-cages pluralistic.net/2020/10/07/goo…
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No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#1yrago China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor pluralistic.net/2024/10/07/for…
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Pluralistic: China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor (07 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Monday's threads: Apple's unlawful evil; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11532786…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-06 15:11:56
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 "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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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory 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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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Boston: Enshittification with Randall Munroe (Brattle Theater), Oct 7
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #NYC: Enshittification at the Brooklyn Public Library, with Lina Khan, Oct 9
bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cory…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
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* #NewOrleans: Enshittification at Octavia Books, Oct 12
octaviabooks.com/event/enshitt…
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Cory Doctorow Discusses Ensh*ttification with Lina M. Khan | Brooklyn Public Library
www.bklynlibrary.orgCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Chicago: How Platforms Die with Rick Perlstein (University Club), Oct 14
eventbrite.com/e/how-platforms…
* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
dieselbookstore.com/event/2025…
* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/…
* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/…
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How Platforms Die with Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
powells.com/events/cory-doctor…
* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
clarionwest.org/event/2025-dee…
* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
showpass.com/2025-festival-39/
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Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron
Marnee Chua (Clarion West)Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
attentionconferences.com/confe…
* #Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, Oct 24
mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/even…
* #Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 25
writersfestival.org/events/fal…
* #Toronto: Enshittification with Dan Werb (Type Books), Oct 27
instagram.com/p/DO81_1VDngu/?i…
* #Barcelona: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
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Conferencia - 4D
4D DIGITALITZACIÓ DEMOCRÀTICA I DRETS DIGITALSCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
attentionconferences.com/confe…
* #Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, Oct 24
mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/even…
* #Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 25
writersfestival.org/events/fal…
* #Toronto: Enshittification with Dan Werb (Type Books), Oct 27
instagram.com/p/DO81_1VDngu/?i…
* #Barcelona: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
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Conferencia - 4D
4D DIGITALITZACIÓ DEMOCRÀTICA I DRETS DIGITALSCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
cloudfest.com/usa/
* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
burbankbookfestival.com/
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
websummit.com/sessions/lis25/9…
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…
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Web Summit, Lisbon
Web SummitCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…
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Neuroscience, AI, and Society
Computational Neuroscience CenterCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification (The.Ink)
the.ink/p/watch-cory-doctorow-…
* Why Everything Is Getting Worse (Majority Report)
youtube.com/watch?v=EQW6UxY144…
* Enshittification (Cornell)
ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/…
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WATCH: Cory Doctorow explains enshittification
Anand Giridharadas (The.Ink)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: They’re just trying to earn a buck (07 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: They’re just trying to earn a buck (07 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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