Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Hate the player AND the game; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Hate the player AND the game; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say…
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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; a movie night with dinner and discussion; and a public event at Cornell Tech in NYC:
adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/…
I'm also appearing at Buffalo Street Books on Sept 11:
buffalostreetbooks.com/event/2…
and at Autumn Leaves Books on 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 BooksEm reshared this.
Cory Doctorow
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Hate the player AND the game: But above all, hate the crooked ump.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11518104…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-10 16:53:41
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Dwayne Johnson Will Play the Chicken Man in ‘Lizard Music’ gizmodo.com/dwayne-johnson-to-… (h/t Karma Burrito)
* Qualifying Conditions jwz.org/blog/2025/09/qualifyin…
* Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights wired.com/story/eff-cindy-cohn…
* Five technological achievements! (That we won’t see any time soon.) crookedtimber.org/2025/09/09/f…
* A notional design studio. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti… (h/t John D Berry)
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Dwayne Johnson Will Play the Chicken Man in 'Lizard Music'
Germain Lussier (Gizmodo)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Anti-trusted-computing video lafkon.net/tc/
#10yrsago Library offers Tor nodes; DHS tells them to stop propublica.org/article/library…
#10yrsago Ashley Madison’s passwords were badly encrypted, 15 million+ passwords headed for the Web arstechnica.com/information-te…
#10yrsago Heathrow security insists that ice is a liquid gizmodo.com/what-happens-if-yo…
#10yrago DoJ says it will consider jailing executives who order corporate crimes nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/poli…
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What Happens If You Take Frozen Liquids Through Airport Security
Jamie Condliffe (Gizmodo)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Government-run egg board waged high-price, secret PSYOPS war on vegan egg-replacement theguardian.com/business/2015/…
#10yrago Using sandwiches to teach the Socratic method web.archive.org/web/2014081020…
#10yrago Fury Road cosplay: amputated arm edition web.archive.org/web/2015091119…
#5yrsago Kids' smart-watches unsafe at any speed pluralistic.net/2020/09/10/boo…
#5yrsago Georgia voter suppression, quantified pluralistic.net/2020/09/10/boo…
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US-appointed egg lobby paid food blogs and targeted chef to crush vegan startup
Sam Thielman (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago The rise and rise of one of NYPD's dirtiest cops pluralistic.net/2020/09/10/boo…
#5yrago Inaudible pluralistic.net/2020/09/10/boo…
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Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Trump steals $400b from American workers; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11517630…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-09 20:50:01
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
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
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 Buffalo Street Books, Sept 11
buffalostreetbooks.com/event/2…
* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/even…
* #Ithaca: Enshittification at Autumn Leaves Books, Sept 13
autumnleavesithaca.com/event-d…
* #Ithaca: Radicalized Q&A (Cornell), Sept 16
events.cornell.edu/event/radic…
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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):
* #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…
* #NYC: Brooklyn Book Fair, Sept 21
brooklynbookfestival.org/event…
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Enshittification and Renewal: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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…
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…
* #Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Nerd Harder! (This Week in Tech)
twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tec…
* Techtonic with Mark Hurst
wfmu.org/playlists/shows/15565…
* Cory Doctorow DESTROYS Enshittification (QAA Podcast)
soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/…
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Nerd Harder! | TWiT.TV
TWiT.tvCory 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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