Hey look at this

* Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America! theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

* The Happiest Place on Earth ramblingreaders.org/book/44212…

* the brompton-ness of it all backofmind.substack.com/p/the-…

* I am a Private Citizen Seeking to Hold My Government Accountable. Dr. Vinay Prasad, a Government Doctor, Killed My YouTube Channel. sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinay… (h/t Boing Boing)

* Lawbreaking as a Method of Competition papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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#20yrsago DVD Jon cracks Windows streaming video DRM theregister.com/2005/09/02/dvd…

#15yrsago German “secure” ID cards compromised on national TV, gov’t buries head in sand web.archive.org/web/2010082607…

#15yrsago Applying “ownership” to links, public domain material does more harm than good locusmag.com/2010/09/cory-doct…

#5yrago How to report on vote-by-mail pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/fre…

#5yrsago Amazon's weird, terrible Flex pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/fre…

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#5yrsago Chevron's dirty tricks against environmental lawyer pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/fre…

#5yrsago Russia didn't hack Michigan pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/fre…

#5yrsago Amazon drivers hide phones in trees pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/fre…

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Yesterday's threads: All (antitrust) politics are local; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11513545…

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Cory Doctorow

2025-09-02 15:39:26

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: All (antitrust) politics are local; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/09/02/act…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: All (antitrust) politics are local (02 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from 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:

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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:

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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:

* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
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* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
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* NYC: Enshittification at the Brooklyn Public Library, with Lina Khan, Oct 9
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
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* #Chicago: Enshittification with Anand Giridharadas (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
oldtownschool.org/concerts/202…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
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Recent appearances:

* Nerd Harder! (This Week in Tech)
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* Techtonic with Mark Hurst
wfmu.org/playlists/shows/15565…

* Cory Doctorow DESTROYS Enshittification (QAA Podcast)
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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:

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