Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Wallet voting; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/con…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Wallet voting; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/con…
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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 and a public event at Cornell Tech in NYC:
adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/…
I'm at Autumn Leaves Books TODAY (Sept 13):
autumnleavesithaca.com/event-d…
I'll also be at the #Brooklyn Book Festival on Sept 21:
brooklynbookfestival.org/event…
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Enshittification: Why Everything Got Worse and What to Do About It
Autumn Leaves BooksCory Doctorow
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Wallet voting: On the uses and abuses of consumerism.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11519729…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-13 13:46:48
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* YIMBYs on the Cusp of Major Victory in California prospect.org/infrastructure/ho…
* Why You Should Spend Less Time with Your Kids youtube.com/watch?v=whaesnYloM…
* Political Violence Is Wrong. Charlie Kirk Didn’t Think So jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk-posob…
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YIMBYs on the Cusp of Major Victory in California
Charlie McGill (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago TiVo won’t save certain shows or allow moving them memex.craphound.com/2005/09/13…
#15yrsago HDCP master-key leaks, possible to make unrestricted Blu-Ray recorders engadget.com/2010-09-14-hdcp-m…
#15yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson on science, justice and science fiction gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/201…
#10yrsago 27-year-olds: don’t forget your D10K party!https://memex.craphound.com/2015/09/13/27-year-olds-dont-forget-your-d10k-party/
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Science, Justice, Science Fiction: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
Gerry CanavanCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Empty Epson “professional” inkjet cartridges are still 20% fullhttps://petapixel.com/2015/09/11/this-is-how-much-ink-the-epson-9900-printer-wastes/
#10yrsago Chest-height puking toilet in a nightclub bathroom reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3k…
#10yrsago MIT and Boston U open legal clinic for innovative tech projects web.archive.org/web/2015100507…
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The Story Behind MIT and Boston University's New Legal Clinic for Student Innovation | MIT Center for Civic Media
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Russian cops use excuse of pirated Microsoft products to raid dissidents, newspapers, and environmentalist groups nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/e…
#10yrsago My novel “Walkaway” will hit shelves in 2017 publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top…
#10yrsago NYPD cop who beat up tennis star James Blake has a long, violent rapsheet web.archive.org/web/2015091306…
#10yrsago Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership contest and vows 'fightback' memex.craphound.com/2015/09/12…
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Book Deals: Week of September 14, 2015
PublishersWeekly.comCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Bill Gates's monopolistic mask-off moment pluralistic.net/2020/09/12/wha…
#5yrsago Mr Gotcha v covid pluralistic.net/2020/09/13/the…
#5yrsago How to buy doubt pluralistic.net/2020/09/13/the…
#5yrsago How the Attack Surface audiobook can reform Audible pluralistic.net/2020/09/13/the…
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Cory Doctorow
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Thursday's threads: Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11518640…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-11 15:37:40
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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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #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: 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…
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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):
* #NYC: Brooklyn Book Fair, Sept 21
brooklynbookfestival.org/event…
* #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/
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Big Tech’s Big Heist - Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Adam Becker - Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Book FestivalCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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…
* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
clarionwest.org/event/2025-dee…
* #Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
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Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron
Marnee Chua (Clarion West)Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
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An Evening with Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Escaping Big Tech, Privacy Battles & “Enshittification” (Revolution.social)
youtube.com/watch?v=exvpetQRSV…
* Nerd Harder! (This Week in Tech)
twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tec…
* Techtonic with Mark Hurst
wfmu.org/playlists/shows/15565…
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Nerd Harder! | TWiT.TV
TWiT.tvCory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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THERE'S LESS THAN 48 HOURS in the Kickstarter to pre-order the Enshittification audiobook, ebook and hardcover! 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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thecasualcritic
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •It's very much an and/and rather than either/or for me. Seek systemic change, but at the same time minimize the power you give to your adversaries. Every $ I don't give to Amazon is a $ they can't use against us. And if I give it to a local bookstore instead, it'll help keep them alive until after the revolution.
But completely agree this is about power, and depends on what power you have. Not about morality and using it as a stick to beat other 'less virtuous' people with.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •> These ideas need billionaire funding because, in themselves, the're an invitation to do nothing. "Vote with your wallet" isn't inspiring in itself, and it only gets worse when you understand that it's being bankrolled by people, whose wallets are many thousands if not millions times thicker than the average ones.