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Inside: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/ver…
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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 #Burbank, #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
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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The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world: If reality doesn't fit the theory, ignore reality.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11550288…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-06 13:02:01
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Lina Khan co-chairs Mamdani's transition team nytimes.com/live/2025/11/05/ny…
* The Democrats' problem in the Senate is not progressives gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats…
* How anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism. cjr.org/analysis/nigeria-pakis…
* Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
* Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List wired.com/story/hack-exposes-k…
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Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago BBC Archive database — early info web.archive.org/web/2005110202…
#20yrsago Sony releases de-rootkit-ifier, lies about risks from rootkits web.archive.org/web/2005112608…
#20yrsago Pew study: Kids remix like hell web.archive.org/web/2005110402…
#15yrsago How I use the Internet when I’m playing with my kid theguardian.com/technology/201…
#15yrsago Bedtime Story: Supernatural thriller about the dark side of “getting lost in a good book” memex.craphound.com/2010/11/02…
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Jack and the interstalk: why the computer is not a scary monster
Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago The Master Switch: Tim “Net Neutrality” Wu explains what’s at stake in the battle for net freedom memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01…
#15yrsago Times Online claims 200K paid users: but where’s the detailed breakdown? memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01…
#15yrsago Duelling useless machines: a metaphor for polarized politics youtube.com/watch?v=UkgoSOSGrx…
#15yrsago Hari Prasad, India’s evoting researcher, working to save Indian democracy from dirty voting machines eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/2010…
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2010 Pioneer Award Winner Hari Prasad Defends India's Democracy
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Science fiction tells us all laws are local — just like the Web locusmag.com/feature/cory-doct…
#15yrsago UK Lord claims mysterious "foundation" wants to give Britain £17B, no strings attached antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…
#15yrsago New Zealand proposes “guilty until proven innocent” copyright law to punish accused infringers arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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New Zealand P2P proposal: guilty until proven innocent
Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Toronto cops who removed their name-tags during the G20 to avoid identification will be docked a day’s pay web.archive.org/web/2010110714… /
#15yrsago $2K bounty for free/open Kinect drivers (Microsoft thinks this is illegal!) blog.adafruit.com/2010/11/04/t…
#15yrsago TSA official slipped white powder into fliers’ bags, told them they’d been caught with coke and were under arrest thesmokinggun.com/documents/st…
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Memos Detail TSA Officer's Cocaine Pranks
The Smoking GunCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Firefox’s new privacy mode also blocks tracking ads web.archive.org/web/2015110408…
#10yrsago Predatory lenders trick Google into serving ads to desperate, broke searchers theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
#10yrsago Fighting Uber’s Death Star with a Rebel Alliance of co-op platforms web.archive.org/web/2015110702…
#10yrsago If the Kochs want criminal justice reform, why do they fund tough-on-crime GOP candidates? theintercept.com/2015/11/03/so…
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Koch Brothers Talk Criminal Justice Reform, But Pay for “Tough on Crime” Political Ads
Lee Fang (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago BBC Archive database — early info web.archive.org/web/2005110202…
#20yrsago Sony releases de-rootkit-ifier, lies about risks from rootkits web.archive.org/web/2005112608…
#20yrsago Pew study: Kids remix like hell web.archive.org/web/2005110402…
#15yrsago How I use the Internet when I’m playing with my kid theguardian.com/technology/201…
#15yrsago Bedtime Story: Supernatural thriller about the dark side of “getting lost in a good book” memex.craphound.com/2010/11/02…
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Jack and the interstalk: why the computer is not a scary monster
Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago The Master Switch: Tim “Net Neutrality” Wu explains what’s at stake in the battle for net freedom memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01…
#15yrsago Times Online claims 200K paid users: but where’s the detailed breakdown? memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01…
#15yrsago Duelling useless machines: a metaphor for polarized politics youtube.com/watch?v=UkgoSOSGrx…
#15yrsago Hari Prasad, India’s evoting researcher, working to save Indian democracy from dirty voting machines eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/2010…
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2010 Pioneer Award Winner Hari Prasad Defends India's Democracy
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Chelsea Manning publishes a 129-page surveillance reform bill from her cell in Leavenworth web.archive.org/web/2015110317…
#10yrsago EPA finds more Dieselgate emissions fraud in VW’s Audis and Porsches nytimes.com/2015/11/03/busines…
#10yrsago Ranking Internet companies’ data-handling: a test they all fail theguardian.com/technology/201…
#10yrsago Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century booktwo.org/notebook/big-data-…
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'If this was a test, nearly everyone failed': how tech giants deny your digital rights
Sam Thielman (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Made to Kill: 1960s killer-robot noir detective novel memex.craphound.com/2015/11/03…
#10yrsago Chrome won’t trust Symantec-backed SSL as of Jun 1 unless they account for bogus certs security.googleblog.com/2015/1…
#10yrsago Beautiful, free/open 3D printed book of lost Louis H. Sullivan architectural ornaments web.archive.org/web/2015110923…
#10yrsago America’s a rigged carnival game that rips off the poor to fatten the rich web.archive.org/web/2015110401…
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The Rigging of the American Market
robertreich (web.archive.org)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago As America’s middle class collapses, no one is buying stuff anymore web.archive.org/web/2015110514…
#10yrsago Irish government to decriminalise personal quantities of many drugs irishtimes.com/news/ireland/ir…
#10yrsago Book and Bed: Tokyo’s coffin hotel/bookstore bookandbedtokyo.com/en/
#10yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Aurora”: space is bigger than you think memex.craphound.com/2015/11/02…
#5yrsago Trustbusting Google pluralistic.net/2020/11/02/unb…
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Injection rooms for addicts to open next year in drug law change, says Minister
Kitty Holland (The Irish Times)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Trump billed the White House $3 per glass of waterhttps://pluralistic.net/2020/11/02/unborked/#beltway-bandits
#5yrsago Trump's electoral equilibrium pluralistic.net/2020/11/02/unb…
#5yrsago A hopeful future pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/som…
#5yrsago Get an extra vote pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/som…
#5yrsago How Audible robs indie audiobook creatorshttps://pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/somebody-will/#acx
#5yrsago Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/som…
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Pluralistic: 02 Nov 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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#1yrago Bluesky and enshittification pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…
#1yrago Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever pluralistic.net/2024/11/01/ban…
#1yrago Neal Stephenson's "Polostan" pluralistic.net/2024/11/04/bom…
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Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works"; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11549814…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-05 16:57:49
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:
* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
cloudfest.com/usa/
* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
burbankbookfestival.com/
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
websummit.com/sessions/lis25/9…
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…
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CloudFest USA
CloudFest USACory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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 Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…
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OII | Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now
www.oii.ox.ac.ukCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…
* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-pres…
* #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…
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In Conversation: Enshittification
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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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Neuroscience, AI, and Society
Computational Neuroscience CenterCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* 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)
youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFy…
* Amanpour & Co (New Yorker Radio Hour)
youtube.com/watch?v=I8l1uSb0LZ…
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Enshittification and How To Fight It: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
Ron Knox (Who Shall Rule)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world (06 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Burbank, #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
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.netChrisblue@bsky.social
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Uhm, is something wrong on MY end or YOURS..?
first time seeing this weird notice (brave browser on intel windows 11 laptop).
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