Hey look at this

* Social Media Provenance Challenge tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…

* A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech nytimes.com/2025/10/05/books/r…

* Socialist Approaches To Enterprise Information Technology saeit.org/ (h/t DJ)

* Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? theguardian.com/technology/202…

* Man buys used Tesla only to discover it's banned from Supercharger network cbsnews.com/chicago/news/used-…

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#20yrsago Ebook DRM that encourages identity theft gets a huge makeover web.archive.org/web/2005101104…

#20yrsago Alternate reality game turns online poker into tombstone parties in cemetaries web.archive.org/web/2013051400…

#20yrsago Reporter vows to fight DRM web.archive.org/web/2005121014…

#20yrsago Library of Congress: Most sound recordings aren’t available clir.org/pubs/reports/pub133/c…

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#15yrsago T-Mobile sneaks “rootkit” into G2 phones – reinstalls locked-down OS after jailbreaking web.archive.org/web/2010100907…

#15yrsago XKCD’s Online Communities map, part 2 – the online world, visualized with loads of funny xkcd.com/802/

#15yrsago KILL THE DEAD: Kadrey’s grisly, hard-boiled sequel to SANDMAN SLIM memex.craphound.com/2010/10/05…

#15yrsago Security company ad tricks people into thinking their houses were burgled copyranter.blogspot.com/2010/1…

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#15yrsago Firefighters watch as house burns to the ground: owner had not paid annual firefighting fees web.archive.org/web/2010100302…

#15yrsago Sky Marshals to lose their cushy first-class seats? web.archive.org/web/2016052103…

#15yrsago Michael Swanwick writes a story about autumn on fallen leaves flickr.com/photos/54366973@N04…

#15yrsago Why the copyright wars matter: a reply to Helienne Lindvall theguardian.com/technology/blo…

#15yrsago William Gibson nails my philosophy in life memex.craphound.com/2010/10/04…

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The real cost of free

Cory Doctorow: Commenters who claim I tell artists to give their work away for free are wrong – and they should focus on the real online villains

^{Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)}

#10yrsago Car accidents aren’t accidents wired.com/2015/10/stop-calling…

#10yrsago How a romance-scam victim laundered $1.1M worth of other victims’ money wired.com/2015/10/online-datin…

#10yrsago Snowden broke a nondisclosure EULA in order to uphold his Constitutional oath aaronswartzday.org/snowden-oat…

#10yrsago What it’s like to do a lockdown drill with kindergarten kids web.archive.org/web/2014102906…

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Rehearsing for death: A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills

A pre-K teacher on the lunacy of lockdown drills.

^{Washington Post}

#10yrsago Forget tidying: losing your precious possessions is the real “life-changing magic” medium.com/chrysaora-weekly/th…

#10yrsago UK Chancellor: I must cut tax benefits for working poor to help them independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…

#10yrsago UK top government official: human rights no longer a “top priority” independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…

#5yrsago Facebook's living will pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/flo…

#5yrsago Ad-tech is a bubble pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/flo…

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#5yrsago The Internet is for End-Users pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/flo…

#5yrsago Squeeze Me pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/flo…

#5yrsago Why I love the Haunted Mansion pluralistic.net/2020/10/04/bui…

#5yrsago Normal isn't enough pluralistic.net/2020/10/04/bui…

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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 "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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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new...

^Macmillan

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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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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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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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Chicago: How Platforms Die with Rick Perlstein (University Club), Oct 14
eventbrite.com/e/how-platforms…

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
dieselbookstore.com/event/2025…

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/…

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
powells.com/events/cory-doctor…

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
clarionwest.org/event/2025-dee…

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
attentionconferences.com/confe…

* #Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, Oct 24
mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/even…

* #Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 25
writersfestival.org/events/fal…

* #Toronto: Enshittification with Dan Werb (Type Books), Oct 27
instagram.com/p/DO81_1VDngu/?i…

* #Barcelona: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…

* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
cloudfest.com/usa/

* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
burbankbookfestival.com/

* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
websummit.com/sessions/lis25/9…

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…

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Recent appearances:

* Enshittification (The.Ink)
the.ink/p/watch-cory-doctorow-…

* Why Everything Is Getting Worse (Majority Report)
youtube.com/watch?v=EQW6UxY144…

* Enshittification (Cornell)
ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/…

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I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Cambridge, MA; Washington, #DC and #Brooklyn!

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