Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Darth Android; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Darth Android; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/ful…
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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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Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11513038…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-01 18:10:25
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* ‘We’re living our Yiddish’: How a New York camp is keeping culture – and joy – alive csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2025…
* AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it? politico.com/news/2025/08/29/a… (h/t Nancy Lizza)
* Customer loyalty is a sham businessinsider.com/consumer-l… (h/t Glenn Hauman)
* The crash of 2026: a fiction crookedtimber.org/2025/08/31/t…
* A Stain on Judaism Itself peterbeinart.substack.com/p/a-… (h/t Corey Robin)
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A Stain on Judaism Itself
Peter Beinart (The Beinart Notebook)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Microsoft abandons its customers AND copyright to kiss up to Hollywood memex.craphound.com/2005/08/30…
#15yrsago Koko Be Good: complex and satisfying graphic novel about finding meaning in life memex.craphound.com/2010/08/31…
#15yrsago Frankenmascot: all the cereal mascots in one web.archive.org/web/2010090407…
#5yrsago Bayer-Monsanto is in deep trouble pluralistic.net/2020/08/31/ai-…
#5yrsago Hard Wired pluralistic.net/2020/08/31/ai-…
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FREE Thing Included!
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Big Tech welcomes (some) regulation pluralistic.net/2020/08/30/ara…
#5yrsago We don't know why you don't want to have public sex pluralistic.net/2020/08/30/ara…
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Cory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: A weekend's worth of links; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11511848…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-30 15:43:26
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…
* 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…
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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):
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
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:
* Cory Doctorow DESTROYS Enshittification (QAA Podcast)
soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/…
* Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights (Libro.fm)
pocketcasts.com/podcasts/9349e…
* The Utopias Podcast
buzzsprout.com/2272465/episode…
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Cory Doctorow DESTROYS Enshitification (E338)
SoundCloudCory Doctorow
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Cory 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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ideaPDish
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Considering infltion,
The price of rubber chickens is remarkably stable...
sciplus.com/rubber-fake-chicke…
RUBBER FAKE CHICKEN 19" LONG
American Science & SurplusLaurence Rowe
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I can find no evidence for this claim:
“For example, the fact that Apple/Google exempt Uber and Lyft from the 30% app tax means that they – and they alone – can provide competitive ride-hailing services.”
As I understand it goods and services are exempt from the requirement that digital products be sold only through in app purchases.