For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity: Competition can't to solve the hospice problem.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-13 12:55:53

When are at to the library, you are a patron, not a customer. When you are at school, you're a student, not a customer. When you get health care, you are a patient, not a customer.

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Hey look at this

* Enshittification short-listed for Goodreads Readers' Favorite Nonfiction goodreads.com/choiceawards/rea…

* Enshittification youtube.com/watch?v=CcceOOPdKZ… (h/t r/LateStageCapitalism)

* James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-… (h/t Today in Tabs)

* Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

* Not So Wonderful Things stage-write.ghost.io/not-so-wo…

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#20yrsago Sony’s *other* malicious audio CD trojan memex.craphound.com/2005/11/12…

#15yrsago Will TSA genital grope/full frontal nudity “security” make you fly less? web.archive.org/web/2010111501…

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#10yrsago Edward Snowden’s operational security advice for normal humans theintercept.com/2015/11/12/ed…

#10yrsago Not (just) the War on Drugs: the difficult, complicated truth about American prisons jacobin.com/2015/03/mass-incar…

#10yrsago Britons’ Internet access bills will soar to pay for Snoopers Charter theguardian.com/technology/201…

#10yrsago How big offshoring companies pwned the H-1B process, screwing workers and businesses nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/larg…

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#5yrsago Anti-bear robo-wolves pluralistic.net/2020/11/12/tha…

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#5yrsago Constantly Wrong pluralistic.net/2020/11/12/tha…

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Yesterday's threads: A tale of three customer service chatbots; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-12 06:21:34

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: A tale of three customer service chatbots; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/12/sor…

#Pluralistic

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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 latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, 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:

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…

* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/event…

* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…

* #London: Downstream IRL with Zack Polanski, Ash Sarkar, and Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
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* Virtual: Enshittification at the Internet Archive, Nov 21
eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-ens…

* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
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* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
libraryfoundationsd.org/events…

* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…

* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…

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Recent appearances:

* How to dis-Enshittify the world (Blood In the Machine)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to…

* Reimagining Digital Public Infrastructure (Attention: Govern Or Be Governed)
youtube.com/watch?v=F8JuXDfDtB…

* Enshittification and How To Fight It (ILSR)
whoshallrule.com/p/enshittific…

* Big Tech’s “Enshittification” & Bill McKibben on Solar Hope for the Planet
writersvoice.net/2025/11/cory-…

* Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

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