Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/08/23/bec…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/08/23/bec…
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Cory Doctorow
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Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed: The better things are for your boss, the worse they are for you.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11507843…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-23 13:58:54
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* I reported from an ICE action on Sansome and all I got was a face full of pepper spray sf.gazetteer.co/i-reported-fro… (h/t JWZ)
* When Trump's Brain Broke unpopularfront.news/p/when-tru…
* Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
* I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch youtube.com/watch?v=TBiFGhnXsh… (h/t Kottke)
* America's Kryptonite orphansandempires.substack.com…
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America's Kryptonite
Andrew Slack (Orphans, Empires, and the Search for a Better World)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Bruce Sterling gets an honorary doctorate web.archive.org/web/2005122623…
#20yrsago Beastie Boys release vocals-only tracks to encourage remixers web.archive.org/web/2005093022…
#20yrsago What was in Buddy Holly’s plane-crash overnight bag? web.archive.org/web/2005102316…
#20yrsago Warner Music CEO calls for iPod taxes, levies — twirls moustache and cackles, clatters away on tiny, ebony hooves web.archive.org/web/2005091018…
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Warner Music readies CD-free 'e-label' | CNET News.com
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Customers of new UK ISP get to share all Sony music on P2P theguardian.com/technology/200…
#10yrsago Greece’s creditors demand casino rights, archaeological sites, selloff of EUR50B of national assets https://web.archive.org/web/20150824062007/https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2015/aug/19/greece-sale-–-and-everything-must-go
#5yrsago Zombie postcapitalism pluralistic.net/2020/08/22/thi…
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Music file sharing to be offered legally
Owen Gibson (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Radical juries; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11507290…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-22 14:33:09
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: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/even…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
contraflowscifi.org/
* #Chicago: Enshittification with Kara Swisher (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
oldtownschool.org/concerts/202…
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights (Libro.fm)
pocketcasts.com/podcasts/9349e…
* The Utopias Podcast
buzzsprout.com/2272465/episode…
* Tariffs vs IP Law (Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons)
youtube.com/watch?v=LFABFe-5-u…
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Cory Doctorow on Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights
Pocket CastsCory Doctorow
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The Penguin of Evil
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Overall everyone was better off and the amount that got dumped extra on bosses could IMHO no way be argued to be equivalent to the amount removed from the people below.
And if it was I'd need a nanotech violin.
Greengordon
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"Return to office? An exercise in pure friction-shifting. The friction your boss experiences from furiously fantasizing about how lazy you're being at home is swapped for the friction of your commute, the friction of having to reschedule deliveries that you weren't home to sign for, the friction of having to eat a packed lunch or waste your pay on overpriced, additive/grease/salt/sugar-laden quick-service food."
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