Who Broke the Internet, Part IV: The thrilling conclusion!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-26 15:48:25

"Kick 'Em In the Dongle" is the fourth and final episode of "Understood: Who Broke the Internet?", a podcast series I hosted and co-wrote for the CBC. It's quite a finale!

cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/135…

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Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV (26 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* The Internet Sucks thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/05/26/…

* Trump Antitrust Enforcers Kick Small Business In the Teeth thebignewsletter.com/p/monopol…

* Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives; “I Pray No One Dies” torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-ce… (h/t Hacker News)

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#20yrsago Music critic to labels: Give me CDs/MP3s/vinyl or don’t bother sfj.abstractdynamics.org/archi…

#20yrsago MIT Tech Review pre-publishing draft articles on a blog web.archive.org/web/2005052400…

#20yrsago Schwarzenegger creates, then fills Potemkin pothole web.archive.org/web/2005060207…

#15yrsago A perfect marvel of vacuous malice memex.craphound.com/2010/05/26…

#15yrsago Canada’s own PATRIOT Act web.archive.org/web/2010053004…

#15yrsago Schneier at the airport schneier.com/blog/archives/201…

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#15yrsago 2008 crash cost $108K per US household web.archive.org/web/2011050522…

#10yrsago Amazon will finally start paying tax in the UK theguardian.com/technology/201…

#10yrsago What Sony and Spotify’s secret deal really looks like theverge.com/2015/5/19/8621581…

#10yrsago Poverty is a tax on cognition youtube.com/watch?v=u6_scuce5T…

#10yrsago Screw the techno-determinists — give me hope instead theguardian.com/technology/201…

#10yrsago The Awesome: ass-kicking girl monster-hunter FTW! memex.craphound.com/2015/05/26…

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#10yrsago Al Qaeda’s job application form web.archive.org/web/2015052017… to Applicants.pdf

#5yrsago White Americans are increasingly opposed to democracy pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pan…

#5yrsago Uber is scrapping thousands of Jump bikes pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pan…

#5yrsago Texas profiteers make bank from NYC's homeless pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pan…

#5yrsago Scarfolk on Cumgate pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pan…

#5yrsago Coronagrifting and other bad design fictions pluralistic.net/2020/05/24/cor…

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#5yrsago Bloomberg editorial calls for a supersized New Deal pluralistic.net/2020/05/24/cor…

#1yrago They brick you because they can pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/rec…

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Saturday's threads: Drinkslump linkdump; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-24 18:25:39

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Drinkslump linkdump; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/24/eri…

#Pluralistic

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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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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:

* #Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 31
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* Virtual: Fediforum, Jun 5
fediforum.org/2025-06/

* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
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* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
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* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
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* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* The Big Story
seekyoursounds.com/podcasts/th…

* Keynote (Pycon)
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* Reclaiming the Internet (Easy Prey)
easyprey.com/reclaiming-the-in…

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HEY #SEATTLE! I'm appearing at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival NEXT SATURDAY (May 31) with the folks from NPR's On The Media!

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Cory Doctorow at Cascade PBS Ideas Festival

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently PICKS AND SHOVELS and THE BEZZLE (followups to RED TEAM BLUES) and THE LOST CAUSE, a solarpunk science fiction novel of …

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