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Inside: Fingerspitzengefühl; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread).
Inside: Fingerspitzengefühl; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/pro…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#Ithaca and #NYC! I'm heading your way for a zillion events from Sept 11-17. Here's a list of open-to-all #Cornell activities including two major keynotes; a movie night with dinner and discussion; and a public event at Cornell Tech in NYC:
adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/…
I'm also appearing at Buffalo Street Books on Sept 11:
buffalostreetbooks.com/event/2…
and at Autumn Leaves Books on Sept 13:
autumnleavesithaca.com/event-d…
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Enshittification: Why Everything Got Worse and What to Do About It
Autumn Leaves BooksCory Doctorow
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Fingerspitzengefühl: IP vs process knowledge.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11516997…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-08 17:58:20
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol github.com/swicg/general/blob/…
* A message from Emily James, director of the upcoming documentary Enshittification: The Film. kickstarter.com/projects/docto…
* The story of how RSS beat Microsoft buttondown.com/blog/rss-vs-ice
* Ideas Have Consequences The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice academic.oup.com/qje/advance-a… (h/t Naked Capitalism)
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general/statements/2025-09-05-activitypub-and-atproto-discourse.md at master · swicg/general
GitHubCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago BBC Creative Archive pilot launches news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainm…
#20yrsago Gold Rush-era sailing ship ruin excavated in San Fran web.archive.org/web/2005091015…
#20yrsago iTunes phone gratuitously crippled by DRM web.archive.org/web/2005100103…
#20yrsago My photos from the Buddhist hells of the Singaporean Tiger Balm themepark memex.craphound.com/2005/09/07…
#20yrsago Online Rights Group UK launches web.archive.org/web/2005112000…
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC opens TV archive to remixers
news.bbc.co.ukCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Yahoo rats out Chinese reporter to Beijing, writer gets 10 years in jail news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacif…
#15yrsago Secret copyright treaty: USA caves on border laptop/phone/MP3 player searches for copyright infringement michaelgeist.ca/2010/09/acta-e…
#15yrsago Login screens from Penn and Teller BBS, 1987 flickr.com/photos/davidkha/496…
#10yrsago Antihoarding: When “decluttering” becomes a compulsion theatlantic.com/health/archive…
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Compulsive Decluttering: The Opposite of Hoarding
Leslie Garrett (The Atlantic)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago NZ bans award-winning YA novel after complaints from conservative Christian group theguardian.com/world/2015/sep…
#10yrsago Immortan Trump imgur.com/gallery/relevant-don…
#5yrsago Antitrust trouble for cloud services pluralistic.net/2020/09/08/att…
#5yrsago FTC about to hammer Intuit pluralistic.net/2020/09/08/att…
#5yrsago IP pluralistic.net/2020/09/08/att…
#5yrsago My first-ever Kickstarter pluralistic.net/2020/09/08/att…
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New Zealand bans award-winning teenage novel after outcry from Christian group
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago David Graeber on Spectre TV pluralistic.net/2020/09/07/fac…
#5yrsago Facebook's foreseeable election consequences pluralistic.net/2020/09/07/fac…
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Pluralistic: 07 Sep 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Stock buybacks are stock swindles; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11515823…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-06 16:13:37
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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Ithaca: Enshittification at Buffalo Street Books, Sept 11
buffalostreetbooks.com/event/2…
* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/even…
* #Ithaca: Enshittification at Autumn Leaves Books, Sept 13
autumnleavesithaca.com/event-d…
* #Ithaca: Radicalized Q&A (Cornell), Sept 16
events.cornell.edu/event/radic…
* #Ithaca: The Counterfeiters (Dinner/Movie Night) (Cornell), Sept 17
adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/…
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Enshittification: Why Everything Got Worse and What to Do About It
Autumn Leaves BooksCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Ithaca: Communication Power, Policy, and Practice (Cornell), Sept 18
events.cornell.edu/event/polic…
* #Ithaca: A Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Being a Better AI Critic (Cornell), Sept 18
events.cornell.edu/event/2025-…
* #NYC: Enshittification and Renewal (Cornell Tech), Sept 19
eventbrite.com/e/enshittificat…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
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Enshittification and Renewal: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #NYC: Enshittification at the Brooklyn Public Library, with Lina Khan, Oct 9
bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cory…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
contraflowscifi.org/
* #Chicago: Enshittification with Anand Giridharadas (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
oldtownschool.org/concerts/202…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
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Kara Swisher and Cory Doctorow on “Enshittification” | 10/15/2025 | Old Town School of Folk Music
www.oldtownschool.orgCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
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Conferencia - 4D
4D DIGITALITZACIÓ DEMOCRÀTICA I DRETS DIGITALSCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Nerd Harder! (This Week in Tech)
twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tec…
* Techtonic with Mark Hurst
wfmu.org/playlists/shows/15565…
* Cory Doctorow DESTROYS Enshittification (QAA Podcast)
soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/…
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Nerd Harder! | TWiT.TV
TWiT.tvCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Fingerspitzengefühl (08 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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The most enshittification-proof way to get the Enshittification audiobook, ebook and hardcover is to pre-order them on my Kickstarter! Help me do an end-run around the Amazon/Audible audiobook monopoly and disenshittify your audiobook experience in the process:
disenshittification.org
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clew
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This is minor, but —I read Sousa’s complaint with the opposite valence you do. He’s sad because he sees the upcoming huge loss of process knowledge. Everyone on the stoop used to be able to sing.
He’s also sad because the recorded versions aren’t paying him like the printed ones, I guess, but the stoop singers are also singing old songs he doesn’t have any money interest in.
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Jacques
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Peter Atwood
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Dźwiedziu
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •How this relates to institutional knowledge?
As while reading I had the nagging feeling that I knew this already, and not just from seeing the IK being lost to axing.