Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/eri…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/eri…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
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
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification: Regulatory arbitrage isn't just for tax cheats.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11591111…
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Cory Doctorow
2026-01-17 15:19:52
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* STFU 🤫 github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/s… (h/t Boing Boing)
* Libro.fm is hiring a Technical Product Manager blog.libro.fm/open-positions/t…
* The Harm to Consumers and Sellers from Universal Commerce Protocol, in Google’s Own Words thesling.org/the-harm-to-consu…
* ‘Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops’: ‘Enshittification’ author issues stark warning ... hilltimes.com/story/2026/01/15…
* 88% of all songs on Spotify have been demonetized musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn…
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5.1tn annual music streams… but 120.5m tracks had 10 or fewer
Stuart Dredge (Music Ally)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrago Hollywood’s Member of Parliament makes national news web.archive.org/web/2006021316…
#20yrsago Skip $250/plate dinner for dirty MP, eat with copyfighters web.archive.org/web/2006011806…
#20yrago Octavia Butler’s “Fledgling”: subtle, thrilling vampire novel memex.craphound.com/2006/01/17…
#10yrsago Revealed: the hidden web of big-business money backing Europe and America’s pro-TTIP “think tanks” thecorrespondent.com/3884/Big-…
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Big business orders its pro-TTIP arguments from these think tanks
The CorrespondentCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago The bizarre magnetic forest rings of northern Ontario bldgblog.com/2016/01/rings/
#10yrsago 2016 is the year of the telepathic election, and it’s not pretty antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…
#10yrsago Trump Casinos lost millions every single year that Donald Trump ran it (but he’s still rich) memex.craphound.com/2016/01/17…
#10yrsago Oregon domestic terrorists now destroying public property in earnest theguardian.com/us-news/2016/j…
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Oregon militia's behavior increasingly brazen as public property destroyed
Sam Levin (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Jeremy Corbyn proposes ban on dividends from companies that don’t pay living wages theguardian.com/politics/2016/…
#10yrsago The Electable Mr Sanders web.archive.org/web/2016011908…
#10yrsago Suspicious, photo-taking “Middle Eastern” men were visually impaired tourists cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col…
#5yrsago Fighting fiber was the right's dumbest self-own pluralistic.net/2021/01/17/tur…
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Six Responses to Bernie Skeptics
robertreich (web.archive.org)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Catch this! and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11590599…
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Cory Doctorow
2026-01-16 17:39:13
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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Cory Doctorow
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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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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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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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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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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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#rp26-Sprecher Cory Doctorow | re:publica
republicaCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification (Jon Favreau/Offline):
crooked.com/podcast/the-enshit…
* 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…
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Cory Doctorow: Enshittification
Plutopia News NetworkCory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
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
EventbriteBill Sharpe Gadfly
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •This am, I disenshittified myself by not following #Youtube when I saw them on the fediverse.
Small steps here...
Bill
Kirby Goulet
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •10:57am 17jan26
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Kirby Goulet • • •Aislinn
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