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Inside: It's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the First Amendment); and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: It's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the First Amendment); and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/09/22/one…
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Cory Doctorow
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It's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the First Amendment): Communications monopolies create single points of failure.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11524777…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-22 11:45:47
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art newyorker.com/culture/the-week… (h/t Mitch Wagner)
* Silicon Foraging: Harvesting Excess Compute for Sustainable Edge Computing siliconforag.ing/
* the exploitation of milk tea explosive and take-away war chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/… (h/t Robert Ness)
* On the Origins of Dune's Butlerian Jihad thetechbubble.substack.com/p/o…
* Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank theverge.com/tech/781387/backp… (h/t Hacker News)
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Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Finnish record exec: Mac users should just buy regular CD players web.archive.org/web/2005103016…
#20yrsago Record industry releases malware that deletes your P2P software web.archive.org/web/2005102400…
#20yrsago Lethem wins Macarthur “genius” award! web.archive.org/web/2005100106…
#20yrsago HOWTO write ass-kicking emails and get a response web.archive.org/web/2005100103…
#20yrsago Powerbooks to get integrated video cameras? web.archive.org/web/2005110417…
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The MacArthur Fellows Program
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago London cops mug blogger for computers, phones, data, call him a “terrorist” gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.htm…
#20yrsago RFID crackers hotwire cars, steal gas, sniff phones web.archive.org/web/2005093020…
#15yrsago The .DOC File of J Alfred Prufrock web.archive.org/web/2010092408…
#15yrsago MPAA: ACTA’s censoring firewalls will help governments avoid Wikileaks embarrassments techdirt.com/2010/09/20/mpaa-w…
#15yrsago Christian anti-transhumanist manifesto web.archive.org/web/2010092611…
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MPAA Wants To Know If ACTA Can Be Used To Block Wikileaks?
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Evercookie: a tracking browser cookie you can’t delete arstechnica.com/information-te…
#15yrsago Netflix pays actors to pretend to be customers and talk to press at Canadian launch web.archive.org/web/2010092409…
#15yrsago William Gibson talks writing-craft maudnewton.com/2010/09/maximus…
#15yrsago Top UK spies revealed as wankers telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/80…
#10yrsago Yet another pre-installed spyware app discovered on Lenovo computers computerworld.com/article/1637…
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Lenovo collects usage data on ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs
mhorowitz (Computerworld)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Why is it so easy to believe that the UK super-rich have sex with pigs? web.archive.org/web/2015092322…
#10yrsago David Cameron now all alone in demanding crypto backdoors, doubles down on antibiotic resistant superterrorists theguardian.com/world/2015/sep…
#10yrsago Litigation Finance predators: champerty loves company mathbabe.org/2015/09/01/litiga…
#10yrsago Bitcoin Ponzi operator pleads guilty over $150M fraud theverge.com/2015/9/21/9367707…
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Bitcoin Ponzi scheme operator pleads guilty to securities fraud
Nick Statt (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Cyber-arms dealer offers $1M for weaponizable Iphone bugs wired.com/2015/09/spy-agency-c…
#10yrsago Ian McDonald’s “Luna: New Moon” – the moon is a much, much harsher mistress memex.craphound.com/2015/09/22…
#10yrsago How Canada’s Tories destroyed the country’s memory, and its capacity to remember macleans.ca/news/canada/vanish…
#10yrsago European court orders airlines to pay compensation for delays from mechanical failures theguardian.com/money/2015/sep…
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Floodgates open for flight delay claims
Anna Tims (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago VW’s car DRM let it get away with cheating on its diesel emissions testing wired.com/2015/09/epa-opposes-…
#10yrsago Symantec caught issuing rogue Google.com certificates security.googleblog.com/2015/0…
#10yrsago JFK TSA agent arrested for stealing $61 out of passenger’s wallet during screening nj.com/news/2015/09/tsa_agent_…
#10yrsago Kickstarter re-incorporates as a “public benefit corporation” nytimes.com/2015/09/21/technol…
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TSA agent arrested for stealing cash from passenger's luggage, police say
Kathryn Brenzel | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com (nj)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Neil DeGrasse Tyson talks with Edward Snowden startalkmedia.com/show/a-conve…
#10yrsago FBI agent faces discipline for alleged polygraph countermeasures antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/foru…
#5yrsago California's fire-debt pluralistic.net/2020/09/21/too…
#5yrsago Fincen (they fucking knew all along) pluralistic.net/2020/09/21/too…
#5yrsago Precursor pluralistic.net/2020/09/19/we-…
#5yrsago Foodcrime pluralistic.net/2020/09/19/we-…
#5yrsago Facebook threatens to leave EU pluralistic.net/2020/09/22/unc…
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A Conversation with Edward Snowden (Part 1)
StarTalkCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Uber for evicting people pluralistic.net/2020/09/22/unc…
#1yrsago Thinking the unthinkable pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/jus…
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Pluralistic: 22 Sep 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Thursday's threads: AI psychosis and the warped mirror; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-18 09:27:42
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:
* #Boston: Enshittification with Randall Munroe (Brattle Theater), Oct 7
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #NYC: Enshittification at the Brooklyn Public Library, with Lina Khan, Oct 9
bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cory…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
contraflowscifi.org/
* #NewOrleans: Enshittification at Octavia Books, Oct 12
octaviabooks.com/event/enshitt…
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Cory Doctorow at The Brattle Theatre
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Chicago: Enshittification with Anand Giridharadas (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
oldtownschool.org/concerts/202…
* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
dieselbookstore.com/event/2025…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
powells.com/events/cory-doctor…
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Kara Swisher and Cory Doctorow on “Enshittification” | 10/15/2025 | Old Town School of Folk Music
www.oldtownschool.orgCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
clarionwest.org/event/2025-dee…
* #Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
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Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron
Marnee Chua (Clarion West)Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* The Enshittification Of Everything (And What To Do About It) (Cornell)
archive.org/details/k-091225-t…
* Escaping Big Tech, Privacy Battles & “Enshittification” (Revolution.social)
youtube.com/watch?v=exvpetQRSV…
* Nerd Harder! (This Week in Tech)
twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tec…
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The Enshittification Of Everything (And What To Do About It) : Cory Doctorow : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet ArchiveCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: It’s still censorship (even if it doesn’t violate the First Amendment) (22 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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