Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: By all means, tread on those people; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: By all means, tread on those people; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sol…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •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:
disenshittification.org
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Cory Doctorow
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By all means, tread on those people: We know you love freedom, we just wish you'd share.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11509668…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-26 19:20:40
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes 404media.co/citizen-is-using-a…
* How To Argue With An AI Booster wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-w…
* We must fight age verification with all we have usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age…
* Sqinks: Transreal Cyberpunk Love Story kickstarter.com/projects/rudyr…
* LibreOffice: a Strategic Asset for Governments and Enterprises Focused on Digital Sovereignty and Privacy blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
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LibreOffice 25.8 Backgrounder - The Document Foundation Blog
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)404 Media
2025-08-25 13:06:49
Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Oakland sheriffs detain people for carrying cameras thomashawk.com/2005/08/right-t…
#10yrsago New Zealand gov’t promises secret courts for accused terrorists nzherald.co.nz/nz/attorney-gen…
#10yrsago Platform Cooperativism: a worker-owned Uber for everything platformcoop.net/
#10yrsago GOP “kingmaker” proposes enslavement as an answer to undocumented migrants thedailybeast.com/iowa-gop-kin…
#10yrsago Six years after unprovoked beating, Denver cop finally fired kdvr.com/news/video-evidence-d…
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Iowa GOP Kingmaker Has a Slavery Proposal for Immigration
Asawin Suebsaeng (The Daily Beast)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Samsung fridges can leak your Gmail logins web.archive.org/web/2015082501…
#10yrsago German student ditches apartment, buys an unlimited train pass washingtonpost.com/news/worldv…
#10yrsago Ashley Madison’s founding CTO claimed he hacked competing dating site wired.com/2015/08/ashley-madis…
#5yrsago Telepresence Nazi-punching pluralistic.net/2020/08/25/anx…
#5yrsago Ballistic Kiss pluralistic.net/2020/08/25/anx…
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Hacking DefCon 23’s IoT Village Samsung fridgePen Test Partners
Pen Test PartnersCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter); and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11509007…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-08-25 15:18:25
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
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
contraflowscifi.org/
* #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
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
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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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Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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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:
disenshittification.org
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Negahyphen
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •It is often incorrectly attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit, a political scientist.
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#WilhoitsLaw
American political scientist
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Tony Vladusich
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Interesting etymology
slate.com/business/2022/06/wil…
The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
Henry Grabar (Slate)bovaz
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •" And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." - Granny Weatherwax from #discworld
If every right stems from property, of course they'd consider people to be things