Catch this!: Email is good, actually.

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Cory Doctorow

2026-01-16 17:22:59

Call it "lifehacking," or just call it, "paying attention to how you stay organized" - I don't care what you call it, I am an ardent practitioner of it.

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Pluralistic: Catch this! (16 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Minneapolis Labor, Community Leaders Join Call for Jan. 23 General Strike to Demand ICE Out commondreams.org/news/minneapo…

* Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all theregister.com/2026/01/16/ban…

* Equilibrium (is) for Dummies profstevekeen.substack.com/p/e…

* Investors Have a Large Footprint in Certain Rental Markets. It Just Depends on Where You Look. thesling.org/investors-have-a-…

* Everything Costs More Because the Algorithm Says So thewalrus.ca/everything-costs-…

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#25yrsago Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s formal excommunication from the Latter Day Saints web.archive.org/web/2001020320…

#20yrsago King Foundation uses copyright to suppress “I Have a Dream” speech washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/cont…

#20yrsago Firefly fans trying to raise enough dough to produce a new season web.archive.org/web/2006011803…

#20yrsago New discussion draft of GNU General Public License is released gplv3.fsf.org/

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#10yrsago “Late stage capitalism” is the new “Christ, what an asshole” x.com/mjg59/status/68823825793…

#10yrsago Worried about Chinese spies, the FBI freaked out about Epcot Center muckrock.com/news/archives/201…

#10yrsago India’s Internet activists have a SOPA moment: no “poor Internet for poor people” theguardian.com/world/2016/jan…

#5yrsago Pelosi kicks Katie Porter off the Finance Committee pluralistic.net/2021/01/16/spe…

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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 the internationally bestselling "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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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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Upcoming appearances:

* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…

* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/

* #Ottawa: Enshittification at Perfect Books, Jan 28
instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/

* #Toronto: Enshittification and the Age of Extraction with Tim Wu, Jan 30
nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doct…

* #Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
rebootcommunications.com/event…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Berlin: Re:publical, May 18-20
re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sp…

* #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
howthelightgetsin.org/festival…

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Recent appearances:

* Why Big Tech is a Trap for Independent Creators (Stripper News)
youtube.com/watch?v=nmYDyz8AMZ…

* Enshittification (Creative Nonfiction podcast)
brendanomeara.com/episode-507-…

* A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39c3)
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame…

* Enshittification with Plutopia
plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-ensh…

* "can't make Big Tech better; make them less powerful" (Get Subversive)
youtube.com/watch?v=X1EzM9_6eL…

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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:

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And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:

firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/

Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:

instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/

And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:

nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doct…

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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax

Join us for a great event with Cory Doctorow as we hear about his bestselling book: Enshittification.

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