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* The Tech Companies Fighting To Sell Your Data levernews.com/the-tech-compani…

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#10yrsago British austerity: a failed experiment abandoned by the rest of the world theguardian.com/business/ng-in…

#10yrsago Translation: once they learn the truth, techies hate and fear us wired.com/2015/04/us-defense-s…

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#5yrsago Legendary troubleshooting stories pluralistic.net/2020/04/29/ban…

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#5yrsago Talking Radicalized with the CBC pluralistic.net/2020/04/29/ban…

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Tuesday's threads: Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11442300…

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Cory Doctorow

2025-04-29 19:55:00

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/04/29/che…

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Pluralistic: Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you (29 Apr 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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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

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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:

* #Auckland: Unity Books, May 2, 6PM
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* #Wellington: Unity Books, May 3, 3PM
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* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
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* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
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* Virtual: Writing to Resist (California Writers Club Berkeley):
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #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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* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
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* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
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* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 3
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It (Cloudfest)
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* Move Fast and Break Kings
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* Beyond the Web (Ostrom Workshop)
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Flipboard Video

2025-04-24 21:42:39

Move Fast and Break Kings, with Cory Doctorow

Blogger, journalist, author and activist Cory Doctorow can embark on a 10-minute monologue about what’s wrong with tech and still leave you hungering for more of his rapid-fire analysis and biting humor. It’s stunning to be presented with the big picture of the mess we’re in — and how to potentially get out of it.

In this episode of Dot Social, recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025, Doctorow unpacks the concept of “enshittification.” It’s a term he coined to show how we got to this place where platforms prioritize business interests over user experience, leading to tragic declines in quality and trust. He talks about how to challenge platform monopolies and the importance of true federation.

Highlights include:

01:52 The path to enshittification
12:50 Is there a way out of this?
17:18 How Cory uses RSS
22:20 Advice for people building the social web
28:07 Take on Bluesky and Mastodon
33:44 On being a “sharecropper in Musk’s farm”
36:05 EFF’s biggest mandate this year
39:04 What bad regulations are going away?
40:16 Is enshittification inevitable?
46:27 What happened to change the way that we enforce antitrust?
53:14 “Radicalized” and take on political violence
59:27 Cory’s book, “Picks and Shovels”

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #NEWZEALAND at UNITY BOOKS in #AUCKLAND TOMORROW (May 2, 6PM):

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and #WELLINGTON on SATURDAY (May 3, 3PM):

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More tour dates (PDX, Pittsburgh, London, Manchester) here:

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