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Socialist excellence in New York City: The real efficiency is insourcing and ending public-private partnerships.
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2026-02-24 09:40:06
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Pluralistic: 23 Feb 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Deplatform yourself; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2026-02-23 11:15:56
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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 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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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
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* #Oslo (remote): Seminar og lansering av rapport om «enshittification», Feb 27
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* #Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
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* #Victoria: Enshittification at Russell Books, Mar 4
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Seminar og lansering av rapport om "enshittification"
Andreas Framnes (Forbrukerrådet)Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanFrancisco: Launch for Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (City Lights), Mar 10
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* #Barcelona: Enshittification with Simona Levi/Xnet (Llibreria Finestres), Mar 20
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* #Berkeley: Bioneers keynote, Mar 27
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*# Montreal: Bronfman Lecture (McGill) Apr 10
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CORY DOCTOROW - Finestres
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
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* #Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
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* #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
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#rp26-Sprecher Cory Doctorow | re:publica
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Recent appearances:
* Making The Internet Suck Less (Thinking With Mitch Joel)
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* Panopticon :3 (Trashfuture)
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* America's Enshittification is Canada's Opportunity (Do Not Pass Go)
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* Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It, with Tim Wu (Ezra Klein)
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* How the Internet Got Worse (Masters in Business)
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America's Enshittification is Canada's Opportunity
Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak (Do Not Pass Go)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Socialist excellence in New York City (24 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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I love what you write and you're definitely doing society a favor, but let's not pretend that this is a private vs public thing, because only given the right context it is that way.
If politicians can't pay companies to outsource (and get some back!) they'll find other ways to get payed extra, like fiddling with zoning, permits and whatnot.
Also, it is unreasonable to think that you can have completely disjoint public and private economies.
The real problem is corruption and lack of accountability.
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Imagine, running government for the long-term benefit of the people - not short term profit of the well-connected 🤔
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Putin's Trump card is #smallpox
The Russians had developed smallpox as a doomsday weapon to clear cities before the US had nuclear weapons.
Given all this administration has done to openly undermine public health and overtly encourage the indiscriminate spread of disease, if Mamdani doesn't have the foresight to vaccinate doctors and nurses (at the very least) it may end up being that none of his ideas or actions end up mattering.
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