Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/eri…
1/
⇧
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/eri…
1/
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #SanDiego (TONIGHT!), #Seattle and #Madison, CT!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
2/
Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta: It's one thing to hire an ex-Meta lobbyist, another entirely if she's signed a non-disparagement contract.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11564527…
3/
Cory Doctorow
2025-12-01 16:34:42
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Hey look at this
* A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z nealstephenson.substack.com/p/…
* NYC Realtime Subway Clock nookwoodworking.com/products/n… (h/t Super Punch)
* Big Tech’s Invisible Hand apublica.org/especial/big-tech…
* Santa plc open.spotify.com/episode/1HpeE…
* MAGA Antitrust Is Officially Dead: DOJ Sanctions Price Fixing With Slap on the Wrist Settlement Against Rental Housing Collusion Kingpin RealPage nakedcapitalism.com/2025/12/ma…
4/
MAGA Antitrust Is Officially Dead: DOJ Sanctions Price Fixing With Slap on the Wrist Settlement Against Rental Housing Collusion Kingpin RealPage | naked capitalism
Conor Gallagher (naked capitalism)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#20yrsago Custom M&Ms: just don’t mention the war, your hometown, or nouns memex.craphound.com/2005/11/28…
#20yrsago Sony CD spyware installs and can run permanently, even if you click “Decline” blog.citp.princeton.edu/2005/1…
#20yrsago Programmers on Sony’s spyware DRM asked for newsgroup help too groups.google.com/g/microsoft.…
#20yrsago Vacuum-bag dust houses sculpted by former house-cleaner web.archive.org/web/2005112703…
5/
MediaMax Permanently Installs and Runs Unwanted Software, Even If User Declines EULA - CITP Blog
J. Alex Halderman (CITP Blog)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#20yrsago Sony knew about rootkits 28 days before the story broke web.archive.org/web/2005120204…
#20yrsago How the next version of the GPL will be drafted gplv3.fsf.org/process-definiti…
#20yrsago No Xmas for Sony protest badge web.archive.org/web/2005120304…
#20yrsago HOWTO defeat Apple’s anti-DVD-screenshot DRM highschoolblows.blogspot.com/2…
#20yrsago EFF: DMCA exemption process is completely bullshit web.archive.org/web/2005120403…
6/
Sony BMG's Costly Silence
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#15yrsago Paolo Bacigalupi’s SHIP BREAKER: YA adventure story in a post-peak-oil world memex.craphound.com/2010/11/30…
#15yrsago Walt Disney World employees demand a living wage thedisneyblog.com/2010/12/01/d…
#15yrsago Hotel peephole doctored for easy removal and spying flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/522…
#15yrsago DC-area county official says TSA patdowns are “homosexual agenda” dcist.com/story/10/11/30/loudo…
7/
Loudoun Co. Official: TSA Pat Downs Are Part Of "Homosexual Agenda" | DCist
Aaron Morrissey (WAMU 88.5 - American University Radio)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#15yrsago Dmitry Sklyarov and co. crack Canon’s “image verification” anti-photoshopping tool web.archive.org/web/2011080820…
#15yrsago TSA scans uniformed pilots, but airside caterers bypass all screening web.archive.org/web/2010112509…
#15yrsago BP sued in Ecuador for violating the “rights of Nature” democracynow.org/2010/11/29/he…
#15yrsago Four horsemen of the information apocalypse: Cohen, Fanning, Johansen and Frankel web.archive.org/web/2010112619…
8/
BP Sued in Ecuadorian Court for Violating Rights of Nature
Democracy Now!Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#15yrsago Winner-Take-All Politics: how America’s super-rich got so much richer memex.craphound.com/2010/11/29…
#15yrsago EFF on US domain copyright seizures eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/us-g…
#15yrsago Where’s Molly: heartbreaking reunion with developmentally disabled sister institutionalized 47 years ago web.archive.org/web/2010112919…
#15yrsago “Death-row inmate” seeks last meal advice on Amazon message-board web.archive.org/web/2010113021…
9/
U.S. Government Seizes 82 Websites: A Glimpse at the Draconian Future of Copyright Enforcement?
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#10yrsago You’re only an “economic migrant” if you’re poor and brown historyned.blog/2015/09/09/the…
#10yrsago Pre-mutated products: where did all those “hoverboards” come from? memex.craphound.com/2015/11/29…
#10yrsago Millennials are cheap because they’re broke theatlantic.com/business/archi…
#5yrsago Attack Surface in the New York Times pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/sel…
#5yrsago RÄT pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/sel…
10/
The Incredible Shrinking Incomes of Young Americans
Derek Thompson (The Atlantic)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#5yrsago Open law and the rule of law pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/sel…
#5yrsago Twitter is more redeemable than Facebook pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/sel…
11/
Pluralistic: 30 Nov 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Friday's threads: (Digital) Elbows Up; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11562748…
12/
Cory Doctorow
2025-11-28 13:11:18
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
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…
--
My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
13/
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
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."
craphound.com/shop/
14/
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Upcoming appearances:
* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
libraryfoundationsd.org/events…
* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…
* Virtual: Poetic Technologies with Brian Eno (David Graeber Institute), Dec 8
davidgraeber.institute/poetic-…
* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
15/
David Graeber Institute - Poetic technologies with Cory Doctorow and Brian Eno
koshika (David Graeber Institute)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Recent appearances:
* We have become slaves to Silicon Valley (Politics JOE)
youtube.com/watch?v=JzEUvh1r5-…
* How Enshittification is Destroying The Internet (Frontline Club)
youtube.com/watch?v=oovsyzB9L-…
* Escape Forward with Cristina Caffarra
escape-forward.com/2025/11/27/…
* Why Every Platform Betrays You (Trust Revolution)
fountain.fm/episode/bJgdt0hJAn…
* How the internet went to sh*t (Prospect Magazine)
prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcast…
16/
Enshittification of our digital experience: the pathology is clear, but is there a cure?
Escape ForwardCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!
Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/eri…
--
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is ad-/tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "⛄️". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!
--
You can also get a fulltext RSS feed, licensed CC BY 4.0:
pluralistic.net/feed/
17/
Pluralistic: Meta’s new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta’s feelings (01 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #SanDiego (TONIGHT!), #Seattle and #Madison, CT!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
eof/
Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netThird spruce tree on the left
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •> Mark Zuckerberg cheats at Settlers of Catan and his underlings let him win
I'm not that far into Careless People - I find I have to keep putting it down because `omg these people are TERRIBLE`... but of _course_ he does.
What an ass. He could literally go "welp, you beat me, again. Want to come visit my ACTUAL island where I grow wheat and sheep? I just had some heavy equipment brought in we're building the longest road." as a flex, but no. _Fucking billionaires_.
Cory Doctorow reshared this.
Maki 🔻
in reply to Third spruce tree on the left • • •Cory Doctorow reshared this.
Log 🪵
in reply to Maki 🔻 • • •uis
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •David S. Reed
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Cory Doctorow reshared this.