Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Boss preppers; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Boss preppers; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/esc…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Toronto, #SanDiego and #Seattle!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Boss preppers: What does a captain of industry have to offer after the shit hits the fan?
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11559492…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-22 19:09:11
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Qualcomm enshittified Arduino linkedin.com/posts/adafruit_op…
* Why is knowledge getting so expensive? youtube.com/watch?v=PygUK16aQg…
* Cooking Temperature and Hold Time Affect Beef Brisket Textural Properties and Cooking Yield iastatedigitalpress.com/mmb/ar… (h/t Don Hayler)
* The Dairy Products Theory of Dead Media (2004) bruces.medium.com/the-dairy-pr…
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Qualcomm-owned Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform.
Adafruit Industries (www.linkedin.com)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Sony insider: DRM is discredited at Sony memex.craphound.com/2005/11/20…
#20yrsago Microsoft: Trusted Computing sucks! web.archive.org/web/2006082100…
#20yrsago EFF brings class-action against Sony! web.archive.org/web/2005112518…
#20yrsago Texas sues Sony over rootkits — YEE-HAW! web.archive.org/web/2006020421…
#20yrsago 1,000 sqft secret chamber discovered in Indian National Library timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ci…
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Secret chamber in National Library
Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey (Times Of India)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Who owns your mortgage, the mind-croggling flowchart edition web.archive.org/web/2010111803…
#15yrsago When did you choose to be straight? youtube.com/watch?v=QJtjqLUHYo…
#15yrsago Dear airlines: goodbye theatlantic.com/business/archi…
#15yrsago How TSA screeners feel about junk-touching web.archive.org/web/2014092813…
#10yrsago Yahoo blocks some users from accessing email until they turn off ad-blocking web.archive.org/web/2015112117…
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Use AdBlock And Yahoo May Block You From Reading Your E-Mail
ConsumeristCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Alan Moore’s brilliantly bonkers lost 1980s Star Wars comics web.archive.org/web/2015112223…
#10yrsago The secret history of the Haunted Mansion’s hall of changing paintings longforgottenhauntedmansion.bl…
#10yrsago England: You have four days to reply to the secret consultation on the NHS’s future theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#10yrsago Southwest Airlines surrenders to racists, refuses boarding to Arab-American passengers nbcsandiego.com/news/national-…
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Philly Pizza Shop Owner Calls 911 After He Says He Was Profiled on Flight Home
Karen Araiza (NBC San Diego)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Nintendo vs Nintendees pluralistic.net/2020/11/21/wre…
#5yrsago Google's monopoly rigged the ad market pluralistic.net/2020/11/20/sov…
#5yrsago Facebook bullies watchdog pluralistic.net/2020/11/20/sov…
#5yrsago We're already (badly) forgiving student debt pluralistic.net/2020/11/20/sov…
#5yrsago Little Revolutions pluralistic.net/2020/11/20/sov…
#1yrago Expert agencies and elected legislatures pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/pol…
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Pluralistic: 21 Nov 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Thursday's threads: The long game; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-20 10:24:28
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:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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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:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Cory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…
* #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…
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
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Cory Doctorow Talks Enshittification
libraryfoundationsd.orgCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library)
crowdcast.io/c/0wzs9iu1q225
* Tech unions against enshittification (TUC)
youtube.com/watch?v=m11hmiHu6T…
* It’s not your job to fix the internet (Vergecast)
theverge.com/podcast/822822/en…
* Enshittification with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel (Peoples & Things)
newbooksnetwork.com/cory-docto…
* Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now, with Tim Wu (Oxford Internet Institute)
youtube.com/watch?v=CkYxMQJ9c9…
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It’s not your job to fix the internet
David Pierce (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Toronto, #SanDiego and #Seattle!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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E. Drake Kajioka
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Library rights have always puzzled me a bit.
I have wondered if SF authors specifically have more leverage than they might think as far as carving out non-exclusive library rights on their own books. Let the publishers bundle but allow authors individually to enable their books to be in libraries.
As a citizen the inability to donate an ebook to a library has similarly frustrated me.
Prof Lutz
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •To what extent is there a widespread awareness that elites _want_ a climate crisis to purge the planet of bad people (mainly brown people)?
Security consulting firms persuaded them their fortunes will protect them in a +2C world. #climatePurge
David S. Reed
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Fitz Bushnell
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