A year in illustration (2025 edition): I think I'm getting the hang of this?

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Cory Doctorow

2025-12-03 19:39:35

One of the most surprising professional/creative developments of my middle-age has been discovering my love of collage. I've never been a visual person. I can't draw, I can't guess if a piece of furniture will fit in a given niche, I can't catch a ball, and I can't tell you if a picture is crooked.

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Pluralistic: A year in illustration (2025 edition) (03 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert youtube.com/watch?v=PNmcF6eRE7… (h/t Kottke)

* Hundreds of Porsche Owners in Russia Unable to Start Cars After System Failure themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/02/…

* The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users gizmodo.com/the-enshittificati…

* What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026? publicdomainreview.org/feature…

* Mastodon CEO change, 2026 reset manton.org/2025/12/02/mastodon… (h/t Mitch Wagner)

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#20yrsago Sony Rootkit Roundup IV memex.craphound.com/2005/12/02…

#20yrsago How can you tell if a CD is infectious? web.archive.org/web/2005120504…

#20yrsago France about to get worst copyright law in Europe? web.archive.org/web/2006011103…

#15yrsago UNC team builds 3D model of Rome using Flickr photos on a single PC in one day readwrite.com/flickr_rome_3d_d…

#15yrsago Schneier’s modest proposal: Close the Washington monument! schneier.com/essays/archives/2…

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#15yrsago Tea Party Nation President proposes taking vote away from tenants web.archive.org/web/2010120401…

#15yrsago What it’s like to be a cocaine submarine captain web.archive.org/web/2012060208…

#10yrsago A profile of America’s killingest cops: the police of Kern County, CA theguardian.com/us-news/2015/d…

#10yrsago The word “taser” comes from an old racist science fiction novel theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#10yrsago HOWTO pack a suit so it doesn’t wrinkle youtube.com/watch?v=ug58yeMqNC…

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#10yrsago Newly discovered WEB Du Bois science fiction story reveals more Afrofuturist history slate.com/technology/2015/12/t…

#10yrsago A roadmap for killing TPP: the next SOPA uprising! eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/tpp-…

#10yrsago Wikipedia Russia suspends editor who tried to cut deal with Russian authorities themoscowtimes.com/archive/rus…

#10yrsago Vtech toy data-breach gets worse: 6.3 million children implicated web.archive.org/web/2015120403…

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#10yrsago Ironically, modern surveillance states are baffled by people who change countries memex.craphound.com/2015/12/02…

#10yrsago Mozilla will let go of Thunderbird techcrunch.com/2015/11/30/thun…

#10yrsago Rosa Parks was a radical, lifelong black liberation activist, not a “meek seamstress” web.archive.org/web/2015120822…

#10yrsago Racist algorithms: how Big Data makes bias seem objective fordfoundation.org/news-and-st…

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#5yrsago Nalo Hopkinson, Science Fiction Grand Master pluralistic.net/2020/12/02/in-…

#1yrago All the books I reviewed in 2024 pluralistic.net/2024/12/02/boo…

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Yesterday's threads: All the books I reviewed in 2025; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-12-02 13:44:25

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2025; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/02/con…

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Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2025 (02 Dec 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:

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

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

* Virtual: Poetic Technologies with Brian Eno (David Graeber Institute), Dec 8
davidgraeber.institute/poetic-…

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

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

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Recent appearances:

* We have become slaves to Silicon Valley (Politics JOE)
youtube.com/watch?v=JzEUvh1r5-…

* How Enshittification is Destroying The Internet (Frontline Club)
youtube.com/watch?v=oovsyzB9L-…

* Escape Forward with Cristina Caffarra
escape-forward.com/2025/11/27/…

* Why Every Platform Betrays You (Trust Revolution)
fountain.fm/episode/bJgdt0hJAn…

* How the internet went to sh*t (Prospect Magazine)
prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcast…

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