Canny Valley: My little art-book is here!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-09-04 15:51:26

I've spent every evening this week painstakingly unpacking, numbering and signing 500 copies of my very first art-book, a strange and sturdy little volume called *Canny Valley*.

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Pluralistic: Canny Valley (04 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Twitter users on Enshittification x.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Ft…

* Introducing Structural Zero: a New Monthly Newsletter hrdag.org/introducing-structur…

* 70 leading Canadians, civil society groups ask Carney to protect Canada's 'digital sovereignty' cbc.ca/news/politics/open-lett…

* AI Darwin Awards aidarwinawards.org/ (h/t Hacker News)

* Kraft Heinz went all-in on scale. Now it’s banking on a breakup to save its business cnn.com/2025/09/03/business/kr…

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#20yrsago Singapore’s cool-ass hard-drive video-players memex.craphound.com/2005/09/03…

#20yrsago Being Poor — meditation by John Scalzi whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03…

#20yrsago MSFT CEO: I will “fucking kill” Google — then he threw a chair battellemedia.com/archives/200…

#20yrsago Massachusetts to MSFT: switch to open formats or you’re fired web.archive.org/web/2005100101…

#20yrsago Bruce Sterling’s Singapore wrapup web.archive.org/web/2005121713…

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#20yrsago Apple //e mainboards networked and boxed: the Applecrate web.archive.org/web/2005040717…

#15yrsago Jewelry made from laminated, polished cross-sections of bookshttps://littlefly.co.uk/

#15yrsago Boneless, clubfooted French Connection model invades Melbournehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/4953586953/

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#5yrsago Hedge fund managers trouser 64% pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip…

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#5yrsago Rest in Power, David Graeber pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip…

#5yrsago Coronavirus is over (if we want it) pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip…

#5yrsago Snowden vindicated pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip…

#5yrsago Algorithmic grading pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip…

#5yrsago Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip…

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Yesterday's threads: The worst possible antitrust outcome; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-09-03 21:19:22

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The worst possible antitrust outcome; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/unp…

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Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from 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:

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
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* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
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* NYC: Enshittification at the Brooklyn Public Library, with Lina Khan, Oct 9
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
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* #Chicago: Enshittification with Anand Giridharadas (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
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* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
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Recent appearances:

* Nerd Harder! (This Week in Tech)
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* Techtonic with Mark Hurst
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* Cory Doctorow DESTROYS Enshittification (QAA Podcast)
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The most enshittification-proof way to get the Enshittification audiobook, ebook and hardcover is to pre-order them on my Kickstarter! Help me do an end-run around the Amazon/Audible audiobook monopoly and disenshittify your audiobook experience in the process:

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