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Inside: The capitalism of fools; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The capitalism of fools; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/str…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •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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Cory Doctorow
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The capitalism of fools: Trump's mirror-world New Deal.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11510774…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-28 18:14:16
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Thinking Ahead to the Full Military Takeover of Cities hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-a…
* Framework is working on a giant haptic touchpad, Trackpoint nub, and eGPU for its laptops theverge.com/news/766161/frame…
* National says "fuck you" on the right to repair norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/…
* Tax the Rich. They’ll Stay rollingstone.com/politics/poli… (h/t Kottke)
* Welcome to the Free Online Tax Preparation Feedback Survey irsresearch.gov1.qualtrics.com… (h/t Stefan Jones)
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Zohran Mamdani Wants to Tax the Rich. They Won’t Leave New York
Nia Law (Rolling Stone)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Cops have to pay $41k for stopping man from videoing them web.archive.org/web/2005090501…
#20yrsago Commercial music in podcasts: the end of free expression? memex.craphound.com/2005/08/26…
#10yrsago North Dakota cops can now use lobbyist-approved taser/pepper-spray drones thedailybeast.com/first-state-…
#10yrsago Illinois mayor appoints failed censor to town library board ncac.org/news/blog/mayor-appoi…
#10yrsago IBM’s lost, glorious fabric design collection.cooperhewitt.org/us…
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Mayor Appoints Would-Be Censor to Library Board - National Coalition Against Censorship
Sarah Hoffman (National Coalition Against Censorship)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Former mayor of SLC suing NSA for warrantless Olympic surveillance techdirt.com/2015/08/26/promin…
#10yrsago Health’s unkillable urban legend: “You must drink 8 glasses of water/day” nytimes.com/2015/08/25/upshot/…
#10yrsago Austin Grossman’s CROOKED: the awful, cthulhoid truth about Richard Nixon memex.craphound.com/2015/08/26…
#10yrsago After Katrina, FBI prioritized cellphone surveillance muckrock.com/news/archives/201…
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Prominent Salt Lake City Residents Sue The NSA Over Mass Warrantless Surveillance During The 2002 Olympics
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Germany’s spy agency gave the NSA the private data of German citizens in exchange for Xkeyscore access zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/20…
#10yrsago Elaborate spear-phishing attempt against global Iranian and free speech activists, including an EFF staffer citizenlab.ca/2015/08/iran_two…
#10yrsago Commercial for Banksy’s Dismaland youtube.com/watch?v=V2NG-MgHqE…
#5yrsago Outdoor education beat TB in 1907 pluralistic.net/2020/08/27/cul…
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London Calling: Two-Factor Authentication Phishing From Iran
John Scott-Railton (The Citizen Lab)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Hagoromo, mathematicians' cult chalk pluralistic.net/2020/08/27/cul…
#5yrsago Principles for platform regulation pluralistic.net/2020/08/27/cul…
#5yrsago It's blursday pluralistic.net/2020/08/26/des…
#5yrsago Surveillance Capitalism is just capitalism, plus surveillance pluralistic.net/2020/08/26/des…
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Pluralistic: 27 Aug 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Tuesday's threads: By all means, tread on those people; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-26 20:14:04
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: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/even…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
contraflowscifi.org/
* #Chicago: Enshittification with Kara Swisher (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
oldtownschool.org/concerts/202…
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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):
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
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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:
* Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights (Libro.fm)
pocketcasts.com/podcasts/9349e…
* The Utopias Podcast
buzzsprout.com/2272465/episode…
* Tariffs vs IP Law (Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons)
youtube.com/watch?v=LFABFe-5-u…
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Cory Doctorow on Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights
Pocket CastsCory Doctorow
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Cory 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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GhostOnTheHalfShell
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