Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/21/et-…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/21/et-…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:
martinhench.com
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Author Signing with Cory Doctorow
stores.barnesandnoble.comCory Doctorow
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Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives: My May 2025 Locus Magazine column.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11454626…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-05-21 14:20:20
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* enshittification merriam-webster.com/slang/ensh…
* I Tried to Jailbreak a 'Pay-To-Ride' Ebike — Total Nightmare youtube.com/watch?v=yJC9s4XhiR… (h/t JWZ)
* Medicare Fraud? Insider Trading? Another New CEO? Just a Normal Week at UnitedHealth prospect.org/health/2025-05-21…
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Medicare Fraud? Insider Trading? Another New CEO? Just a Normal Week at UnitedHealth.
Daniel Boguslaw (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Italian phone carriers have phone-unlockers arrested memex.craphound.com/2005/05/20…
#15yrsago Critical paths and self-publishing publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top…
#15yrsago JHEREG license plate memex.craphound.com/2010/05/20…
#15yrsago UK government promises immediate, sweeping, pro-liberty reform arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#15yrsago Canada’s sellout Heritage Minister ready to hand copyright to Hollywood web.archive.org/web/2010052307…
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New UK govt to curb CCTV, scrap ID cards, help open source
Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago NYC sidewalk with a tourist lane web.archive.org/web/2010052307…
#15yrsago Charts of UK Parliamentary language usage, 1935- web.archive.org/web/2010052307…
#15yrsago NYC writer’s space throws out last remaining typewriter user web.archive.org/web/2010052309…
#15yrsago World Sauna Championships: blisters, peeling skin, burned throats espn.com/espn/news/story?id=51…
#10yrsago Digital rights news from 2025 edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-30…
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'Sports From Hell' by Rick Reilly book excerpt - ESPN
Rick Reilly (ESPN)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago FBI spies on tar sands opponents under banner of “national security” web.archive.org/web/2015052300…
#10yrsago Bottled water: the ultimate throwback to feudal selfishness gizmodo.com/stop-drinking-bott…
#10yrsago Chris Christie denounces “civil liberties extremists” huffpost.com/entry/chris-chris…
#5yrsago Ifixit's medtech repair manual trove is full to bursting pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil…
#5yrsago Re-positive coronavirus cases are not infectious pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil…
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Chris Christie: 'You Can't Enjoy Your Civil Liberties If You're In A Coffin'
Scott Conroy (HuffPost)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Google vows no custom AI for oil and gas pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil…
#5yrsago Grocer won't show employees results from mandatory temp-checks pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil…
#5yrsago Software secrecy pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil…
#5yrsago Climate and machine learning pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil…
#5yrsago Hackers on Planet Earth, in the cloud pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil…
#1yrago The new globalism is global labor pluralistic.net/2024/05/20/a-c…
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Pluralistic: 20 May 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11454119…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-05-20 16:51:45
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.
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
chevaliersbooks.com/product-pa…
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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:
booksoup.com/book/978180429124…
Both are national bestsellers!
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory 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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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 30
eventbrite.com/e/cascade-pbs-i…
* Virtual: Fediforum, Jun 5
fediforum.org/2025-06/
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
* #Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
tualatinoregon.gov/library/aut…
* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
howtoacademy.com/events/cory-d…
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Cascade PBS Ideas Festival
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
uk.coop/events-and-training/ev…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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An Evening With Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Reclaiming the Internet (Easy Prey)
easyprey.com/reclaiming-the-in…
* In God We Antitrust (Understood)
cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/135…
* Fireside Fedi
video.firesidefedi.live/w/huev…
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Reclaiming the Internet - Easy Prey Podcast
Easy Prey (Easy Prey Podcast)Fireside Fedi Videos
2025-05-14 03:53:21
Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives (21 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:
martinhench.com
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Author Signing with Cory Doctorow
stores.barnesandnoble.comJack Yan (甄爵恩)
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