Who Broke the Internet? Part III: The paradox of "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox."

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-19 15:28:54

Episode 3 of "Understood: Who Broke the Internet?" (my new CBC podcast about enshittification) just dropped. It's called "In God We Antitrust," and it's *great*:

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Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet? Part III (19 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Patients Before Monopolies benjaminjolley.substack.com/p/…

* Drop + DOOM: The Dark Ages Slayer's Arsenal Artisan Keycap drop.com/buy/drop-doom-the-dar… (h/t Yanko Design)

* A Shapeshifting Situationship jimmunroe.net/comics/zeroed-ou…

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#20yrsago My PopSci piece on radio’s Broadcast Flag web.archive.org/web/2005052003…

#20yrsago My Wired News op-ed about the BBC web.archive.org/web/2005052000…

#20yrsago Russian villagers scavenge fallen Soyuz junk to survive spacedaily.com/news/debris-05d…

#20yrsago WiFi crypto can be broken in 3 mins web.archive.org/web/2005051900…

#15yrsago Lost etymology of “fanboy” technologizer.com/2010/05/17/f…

#15yrsago Linda Stone on email apnea and continuous partial attention vimeo.com/7551900

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#15yrsago Punk photography from Maximumrocknroll web.archive.org/web/2010052000…

#15yrsago SWORD OF MY MOUTH: Apocalyptic graphic novel about the tyranny of angels memex.craphound.com/2010/05/17…

#15yrsago Time to kill “Information Wants to Be Free” theguardian.com/technology/201…

#15yrsago New York Times headline writer allergic to the word “liar” memex.naughtons.org/euphemism-…

#15yrsago Blowgun woman: “I like to hear people say ‘ouch'” web.archive.org/web/2010042901…

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#15yrsago Financial Times chickens out, refuses to run Amnesty’s anti-Shell Oil ad web.archive.org/web/2010052018…

#10yrsago Atlanta pays $20,000 to critic forced to post pro-cop message to Facebook web.archive.org/web/2015051416…

#10yrsago Blizzard bans 100,000 Warcraft players hothardware.com/news/blizzard-…

#10yrsago Dolls with hearing aids, port-wine stains and canes web.archive.org/web/2015091102…

#5yrsago Neoliberals won't waste this crisis pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/che…

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#5yrsago Farewell to Beyond the Beyond pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/che…

#5yrsago DOD lie-detector manual leaked pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/che…

#5yrsago Instagram's slow-mo appeals court pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/che…

#5yrsago Deliveroo, without Delivero pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…

#5yrsago Airgap-busting malware pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…

#5yrsago Universal broadband now pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…

#5yrsago See through walls with free software pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…

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#5yrsago England's storks are back pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…

#5yrsago Restaurateur wreaks algorithmic vengeance upon Doordash pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…

#5yrsago Ada Palmer, being brilliant for 2.5h pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…

#1yrago Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander pluralistic.net/2024/05/18/mar…

#1yrago You were promised a jetpack by liars pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fak…

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Saturday's threads: Plinkpump linkdump; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-17 15:28:07

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Plinkpump linkdump; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/17/odd…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Plinkpump linkdump (17 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.

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Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 30
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* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
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* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
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* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
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* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
uk.coop/events-and-training/ev…

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* In God We Antitrust (Understood)
cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/135…

* Fireside Fedi
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* Ctrl-ctrl-ctrl (Understood)
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Fireside Fedi Videos

2025-05-14 03:53:21

Episode 16 - Cory Doctorow - Livestream 2025-05-13

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 16 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Cory Doctorow! You might know Cory from such classics as the term "enshittification" that he coined during one of his many presentations. But besides having catch terms that even your grandparents can agree with about today's big tech platforms, Cory is also a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He's had a few books that us on the open social web might enjoy such as "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" and "The Internet Con : How to Seize the Means of Computation". Cory works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, a visiting professor for numerous colleges. Cory holds and multiple honorary Doctorates. And might I add, I consider Cory to be one of the most charismatic and vocal advocates for digital privacy rights and I am claiming he is now King of the nerds. And there's just so much more to say about Cory, but I recommend everyone just go look up his Wikipedia, because if I have to talk about all of his accomplishments we'll run out of time. Cory thank you so much for joining me and I'm just blown away and honored to be able to speak to you.

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