Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Disney has lost Roger Rabbit; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Disney has lost Roger Rabbit; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/18/im-…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #London, #Toronto and #SanDiego!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Disney has lost Roger Rabbit: Termination of Transfer is the most pro-artist form of copyright.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11557135…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-18 15:15:05
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* NZ Supreme Court says Uber drivers are employees courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/case…
* Excellence over mediocrity, from Mamdani to Marx to food coreyrobin.com/2025/11/15/exce…
* Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats theverge.com/news/820600/googl…
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Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats
Emma Roth (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Amazon offers refunds for all Sony rootkit CDs craphound.com/amznxmpsonycd.tx…
#20yrsago Uninstaller for Sony’s other malware screws up your PC blog.citp.princeton.edu/2005/1…
#20yrsago Schneier: Why didn’t anti-virus apps defend us against Sony’s rootkit? web.archive.org/web/2005112412…
#20yrsago Sony still advising public to install rootkits web.archive.org/web/2005112405…
#15yrsago Hilarious story of disastrous cross-country move with dogs hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com…
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Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving
hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.comCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago UK gov’t promises to allow telcos to hold Brits hostage on “two-speed” Internet bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-117…
#15yrsago Sexually assaulted by a TSA groper web.archive.org/web/2010111600…
#10yrsago Former ISIS hostage: they want us to retaliate theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#10yrsago There is no record of US mass surveillance ever preventing a large terror attack theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-…
#10yrsago The final Pratchett: The Shepherd’s Crown memex.craphound.com/2015/11/17…
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U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks, Regardless of Snowden Leaks
Jenna McLaughlin (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago DRM in TIG welders youtube.com/watch?v=b6mlr_MX2V…
#10yrsago We treat terrorism as more costly than it truly is timharford.com/2015/11/nothing…
#10yrsago David Cameron capitulates to terror, proposes Britain’s USA Patriot Act web.archive.org/web/2015111715…
#5yrsago Storage Wars pluralistic.net/2020/11/17/u-s…
#5yrsago Cross-Media Sci-Fi with Amber Benson and John Rogers pluralistic.net/2020/11/17/u-s…
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Nothing to fear but fear itself?
Tim HarfordCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11556614…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-17 17:10:16
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 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…
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Cory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…
* Virtual: Enshittification at the Internet Archive, Nov 21
eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-ens…
* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-pres…
* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…
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In Conversation: Enshittification
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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-…
* #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…
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Cory Doctorow Talks Enshittification
libraryfoundationsd.orgCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel (Peoples & Things)
newbooksnetwork.com/cory-docto…
* Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now, with Tim Wu (OII
youtube.com/watch?v=CkYxMQJ9c9…
* Working it out: Job security in the AI era (Web Summit)
websummit.com/summaries/lis25/…
* How to dis-Enshittify the world (Blood In the Machine)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to…
* Reimagining Digital Public Infrastructure
youtube.com/watch?v=F8JuXDfDtB…
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How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #London, #Toronto and #SanDiego!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netRegan King
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Cory Doctorow
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jwz
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jwz
in reply to jwz • • •Also, as I wrote in my micro-review of it, channelling you: jwz.org/b/ykcE
Because of the age of the properties involved, this is the kind of movie that anyone could have made if we lived in a world with a functioning public domain. But since we don't, only Disney could have made it. If you're inside the event horizon of the Disney black hole, you have access to everything again, because they own it all. ("I'm so rich, everything's free.")
jwz: Recent movies and TV
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Aidan
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