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Cory Doctorow
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California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners: These are the right states' rights.
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Cory Doctorow
2026-02-28 11:14:23
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Newspapers Did Not Kill Themselves prospect.org/2026/02/26/newspa…
* Democrats Should Launch a “Nuremberg Caucus” to Investigate the Crimes of the Trump Regime thenation.com/article/politics…
* Two-thirds of Americans want term limits for Supreme Court justices gelliottmorris.com/p/two-third…
* On the Democratic Party Style coreyrobin.com/2026/02/26/on-t…
* Hannah Spencer gives DEFIANT victory speech as she wins Gorton & Denton for the Greens youtube.com/watch?v=KrzLQ294gu…
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Two-thirds of Americans want term limits for Supreme Court justices
G. Elliott Morris (Strength In Numbers)Cory Doctorow
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#25yrsago Mormon guide to overcoming masturbation web.archive.org/web/2007101102…
#20yrsago Midnighters: YA horror trilogy mixes Lovecraft with adventure memex.craphound.com/2006/02/26…
#20yrsago RIP, Octavia Butler darkush.blogspot.com/2006/02/o…
#20yrsago Disney hiring “Intelligence Analyst” to review “open source media” web.archive.org/web/2006030316…
#20yrsago MPAA exec can’t sell A-hole proposal to tech companies web.archive.org/web/2006032501…
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Octavia Butler died Saturday
darkush.blogspot.comCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Why are America’s largest corporations paying no tax? web.archive.org/web/2011022616…
#15yrsago Articulated cardboard Cthulhu web.archive.org/web/2011052220…
#15yrsago Freeman Dyson reviews Gleick’s book on information theory nybooks.com/articles/2011/03/1…
#15yrsago 3D printing with mashed potatatoes fabbaloo.com/2011/02/3d-printi…
#15yrsago TVOntario’s online archive, including Prisoners of Gravity! web.archive.org/web/2011022602…
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How We Know
Freeman Dyson (The New York Review of Books)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago _applyChinaLocationShift: In China, national security means that all the maps are wrong web.archive.org/web/2016022714…
#10yrsago Teaching kids about copyright: schools and fair use youtube.com/watch?v=hzqNKQbWTW…
#10yrsago Ghostwriter: Trump didn’t write “Art of the Deal,” he read it web.archive.org/web/2016022903…
#10yrsago The biggest abortion lie of all: “They do it for the money” bloomberg.com/features/2016-ab…
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Why You Can't Trust GPS in China
Travel + LeisureCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago NHS junior doctors show kids what they do, kids demand better of Jeremy Hunt juniorjuniordoctors.tumblr.com…
#10yrsago Nissan yanks remote-access Leaf app — 4+ weeks after researchers report critical flaw theverge.com/2016/2/25/1111672…
#10yrsago Think you’re entitled to compensation after being wrongfully imprisoned in California? Nope. web.archive.org/web/2016022901…
#10yrsago BC town votes to install imaginary GPS trackers in criminals web.archive.org/web/2016022711…
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Nissan pulls the Leaf’s phone app after security vulnerabilities come to light
Chris Ziegler (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago New Zealand’s Prime Minister: I’ll stay in TPP’s economic suicide-pact even if the USA pulls out techdirt.com/2016/02/26/new-ze…
#10yrsago South Korean lawmakers stage filibuster to protest “anti-terror” bill, read from Little Brother memex.craphound.com/2016/02/26…
#5yrsago Privacy is not property pluralistic.net/2021/02/26/mea…
#1yrago With Great Power Came No Responsibility pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/urs…
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New Zealand Says Laws To Implement TPP Will Be Passed Now, Despite US Uncertainties, And Won't Be Rolled Back Even If TPP Fails
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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Thursday's threads: If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it); and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11613668…
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Cory Doctorow
2026-02-26 11:26:09
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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:
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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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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."
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
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* #Victoria: Enshittification at Russell Books, Mar 4
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* #SanFrancisco: Launch for Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (City Lights), Mar 10
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* #Barcelona: Enshittification with Simona Levi/Xnet (Llibreria Finestres), Mar 20
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Cory Doctorow is coming to Victoria!
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Berkeley: Bioneers keynote, Mar 27
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* #Montreal: Bronfman Lecture (McGill) Apr 10
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* #Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
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* #Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
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Bioneers 2026 Conference - Bioneers Conference
Bioneers ConferenceCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
howthelightgetsin.org/festival…
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Big Ideas
HowTheLightGetsIn - The World's Leading Philosophy and Music FestivalCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Should Democrats Make A Nuremberg Caucus? (Make It Make Sense)
youtube.com/watch?v=MWxKrnNfrl…
* Making The Internet Suck Less (Thinking With Mitch Joel)
sixpixels.com/podcast/archives…
* Panopticon :3 (Trashfuture)
patreon.com/posts/panopticon-3…
* America's Enshittification is Canada's Opportunity (Do Not Pass Go)
donotpassgo.ca/p/americas-ensh…
* Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It, with Tim Wu (Ezra Klein)
nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion…
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America's Enshittification is Canada's Opportunity
Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak (Do Not Pass Go)Cory Doctorow
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