Zohran Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker: Lina Khan has plans for New York City.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11555564…

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-15 20:39:26

The most exciting thing about Biden's antitrust enforcers was how *good* they were at their jobs. They were dead-on chapter-and-verse on every authority and statute available to the administrative branch, and they set about in earnest figuring out how to use those powers to help the American people:

eff.org/de/deeplinks/2021/08/p…

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Party Like It’s 1979: The OG Antitrust Is Back, Baby!

President Biden’s July 9 Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy is a highly technical, 72-part, fine-grained memo on how to address the ways market concentration harms our lives as workers, citizens, consumers, and beyond.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

Hey look at this

* A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF scottedelman.com/wordpress/202…

* The algorithm failed music theverge.com/column/815744/mus… (h/t JWZ)

* Why the filibuster? coreyrobin.com/2025/11/11/why-…

* Britain’s Railway Privatization Was an Abject Failure rosalux.de/en/news/id/53917/br…

* The lawsuit is over! linkletter.org/update-33-the-l…

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#20yrsago Sony begins to recall some infected CDs web.archive.org/web/2005112723…

#20yrsago Sony’s rootkit uninstaller is *really* dangerous blog.citp.princeton.edu/2005/1…

#20yrsago Table made from ancient, giant hard-drive platter web.archive.org/web/2005092918…

#20yrsago EFF to Sony: you broke it, you oughta fix it web.archive.org/web/2005112608…

#20yrsago Sony anti-customer technology roundup and time-line memex.craphound.com/2005/11/14…

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#20yrsago Visa’s “free” laptop costs at least $60 more than retail in fees web.archive.org/web/2005112505…

#20yrsago Sony’s rootkit infringes on software copyrights web.archive.org/web/2006110815…

#20yrsago Gizmodo flamed by crazy inventor; turns out he’s a crook web.archive.org/web/2005112610…

#20yrsago Fox counsels viewers to share videos of shows memex.craphound.com/2005/11/13…

#20yrsago Sony’s malware uninstaller leaves your computer vulnerable hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/

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#15yrsago Tim Wu on the new monopolists: a “last chapter” for The Master Switch web.archive.org/web/2015121401…

#15yrsago Man at San Diego airport opts out of porno scanner and grope, told he’ll be fined $10K unless he submits to fondling johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/1…

#10yrsago 100 useful tips from a bygone era digitalcollections.nypl.org/se…

#10yrsago Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/a…

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#10yrsago Startup uses ultrasound chirps to covertly link and track all your devices arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Cop who unplugged his cam before killing a 19-year-old girl is rehired arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Hospitals are patient zero for the Internet of Things infosec epidemic web.archive.org/web/2015111305…

#10yrsago Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s FBI files muckrock.com/news/archives/201…

#10yrsago I-Spy Surveillance Books: a child’s first Snoopers Charter scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/11/…

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#10yrsago China routinely tortures human rights lawyers businessinsider.com/amnesty-in…

#10yrsago Fordite: a rare mineral only found in old Detroit auto-painting facilities miningeology.blogspot.com/2015…

#10yrsago Facebook won’t remove photo of children tricked into posing for neo-fascist group bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottin…

#5yrsago Big Car wants to pump the brakes on Right to Repair pluralistic.net/2020/11/13/sai…

#1yrago America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable pluralistic.net/2024/11/13/las…

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Yesterday's threads: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11554257…

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-13 13:16:59

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/13/pat…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from 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 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:

* #London: Downstream IRL with Zack Polanski, Ash Sarkar, and Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…

* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…

* Virtual: Enshittification at the Internet Archive, Nov 21
eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-ens…

* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-pres…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…

* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
libraryfoundationsd.org/events…

* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…

* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…

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Recent appearances:

* How to dis-Enshittify the world (Blood In the Machine)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to…

* Reimagining Digital Public Infrastructure (Attention: Govern Or Be Governed)
youtube.com/watch?v=F8JuXDfDtB…

* Enshittification and How To Fight It (ILSR)
whoshallrule.com/p/enshittific…

* Big Tech’s “Enshittification” & Bill McKibben on Solar Hope for the Planet
writersvoice.net/2025/11/cory-…

* Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFy…

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #London, #Toronto and #SanDiego!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

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