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Inside: Radical juries; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Radical juries; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/08/22/jur…
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Cory Doctorow
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Radical juries: They sure hate Big Tech.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-22 14:21:40
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine len-sherman.medium.com/how-ube…
* Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-in…
* Burner Phone 101 rebeccawilliams.info/burner-ph…
* Commonwealth Bank backtracks on AI job cuts, apologises for 'error' as call volumes rise abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/cba…
* It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes defector.com/it-took-many-year…
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ABC News
Stephanie Chalmers (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Hunter S Thompson’s ashes in fireworks display — pics talkleft.com/story/2005/08/22/…
#10yrsago Make your own TSA universal luggage keys washingtonpost.com/local/traff…
#10yrsago Regal promises security-theater bag-searches in America’s largest cinema chain techdirt.com/2015/08/21/tsa-mo…
#10yrsago Judge: City of Inglewood can’t use copyright to censor videos of council meetings web.archive.org/web/2015082112…
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TSA At The Movies: Theater Chain Looks To Bring Security Theater To The Movie Theater
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago EFF-Austin panel commemmorating the 20th anniversary of the Steve Jackson Games raid youtube.com/watch?v=ChPS4H-nqi…
#5yrsago Facebook overrules its own fact-checkers pluralistic.net/2020/08/21/zuc…
#5yrsago Rewarding CEOs for failure pluralistic.net/2020/08/21/zuc…
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- YouTube
www.youtube.comCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Melinda Mendes's "The Weight"; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-21 13:49:46
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 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:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Cory 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:
* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/even…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
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* #Chicago: Enshittification with Kara Swisher (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
oldtownschool.org/concerts/202…
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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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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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights (Libro.fm)
pocketcasts.com/podcasts/9349e…
* The Utopias Podcast
buzzsprout.com/2272465/episode…
* Tariffs vs IP Law (Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons)
youtube.com/watch?v=LFABFe-5-u…
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Cory Doctorow on Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights
Pocket CastsCory Doctorow
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