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Inside: The mad king's digital killswitch; and more!
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Inside: The mad king's digital killswitch; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/pos…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #SanFrancisco, #Portland and #Seattle!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Cory Doctorow
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The mad king's digital killswitch: Every accusation is a confession.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11540689…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-20 14:11:14
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Trump’s EV retreat: a huge win for his #1 rival cnn.com/2025/10/15/business/tr…
* Tech Workers Versus Enshittification cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-work…
* Whistle Work heidiwaterhouse.com/political-… (h/t Sumana)
* About Cory Doctorow's "Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall!" euro-stack.com/blog/2025/10/te…
* Atlanta’s city-run grocery sees early success, sparking debate over government’s role foxnews.com/politics/atlantas-…
* How Russell Vought Became Trump’s Shadow President propublica.org/article/russ-vo…
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Atlanta’s city-run grocery sees early success, sparking debate over government’s role
Amanda Macias (Fox News)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Fox shuts down Buffy Hallowe’en musical despite Whedon’s protests Fox shuts down Buffy Hallowe’en musical despite Whedon’s protests web.archive.org/web/2005102123…
#20yrsago Norway’s public broadcaster sells out taxpayers to Microsoft memex.craphound.com/2005/10/16…
#20yrsago Lifehackers profile in NYT nytimes.com/2005/10/16/magazin…
#20yrsago Pan-European DRM proposal https://dissected web.archive.org/web/20051105035811/http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/NAVSHP/
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counterPULSE|San Francisco performance art space|formerly 848 Community Space
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago EFF cracks hidden snitch codes in color laser prints w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/do…
#20yrsago Nielsen’s top-10 blog usability mistakes nngroup.com/articles/weblog-us…
#20yrsago Microsoft employee calls me a communist and a liar and insists that a Microsoft monopoly will be good for Norwayhttps://memex.craphound.com/2005/10/17/msft-employee-cory-is-a-liar-and-a-communist-msft-is-good-for-norway/
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Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes
Jakob Nielsen (Nielsen Norman Group)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Dear ASCAP: May I sing Happy Birthday for my dad’s 75th? web.archive.org/web/2005102400…
#20yrsago 100 oldest .COM names in the registry web.archive.org/web/2005102402…
#15yrsago Koja’s UNDER THE POPPY: dark, epic and erotic novel of war and intrigue memex.craphound.com/2010/10/18…
#15yrsago Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft salon.com/2010/10/19/microsoft…
#15yrsago Google Book Search will never have an effective competitor papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft
Dan Gillmor (Salon.com)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Prentiss County, Mississippi Jail requires all inmates to have a Bible, regardless of faith web.archive.org/web/2006111903…
#15yrsago Early distributed computing video, 1959, prefigures the net archive.org/details/AllAboutPo…
#15yrsago Furniture made from rusted Soviet naval mines web.archive.org/web/2015020604…
#15yrsago G20 Toronto cop who was afraid of girl blowing soap bubbles sues YouTube for “ridicule” web.archive.org/web/2010101900…
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All About Polymorphics : Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet ArchiveCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Help wanted: anti-terrorism intern for Disney web.archive.org/web/2015101518…
#15yrsago Rudy Rucker remembers Benoit Mandelbrot rudyrucker.com/blog/2010/10/16…
#15yrsago Verminous Dickens cake banned from Melbourne cake show web.archive.org/web/2010101900…
#15yrsago English Heritage claims it owns every single image of Stonehenge, ever blog.fotolibra.com/2010/10/19/…
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Remembering Benoit Mandelbrot
Rudy's Blog | Rudy Rucker's Thoughts and ImagesCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago HOWTO Make Mummy Meatloaf web.archive.org/web/2010102223…
#15yrsago HOWTO catch drilling-dust with a folded Post-It cheezburger.com/4078311936
#10yrsago White supremacists call for Star Wars boycott because imaginary brown people themarysue.com/boycott-star-wa…
#10yrsago In upsidedownland, Verizon upheld its fiber broadband promises to 14 cities techdirt.com/2015/10/19/close-…
#10yrsago Survivor-count for the Chicago PD’s black-site/torture camp climbs to 7,000+ theguardian.com/us-news/2015/o…
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Spencer Ackerman (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago A Swedish doctor’s collection of English anatomical idioms news.harvard.edu/gazette/story… (1)
#10yrsago Some suggestions for sad, rich people whatever.scalzi.com/2015/10/18…
#10yrsago That “CIA veteran” who was always on Fox News? Arrested for lying about being in the CIA abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/fox…
#10yrsago Eric Holder: I didn’t prosecute bankers for reasons unrelated to my $3M/year law firm salary theintercept.com/2015/10/16/ho…
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Holder Defends Record of Not Prosecuting Financial Fraud
Dan Froomkin (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Titanic victory for fair use: appeals court says Google’s book-scanning is legal memex.craphound.com/2015/10/16…
#10yrsago Snowden for drones: The Intercept’s expose on US drone attacks, revealed by a new leaker theintercept.com/drone-papers/
#10yrsago Tweens are smarter than you think: the wonderful, true story of the ERMAHGERD meme vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10…
#10yrsago UK MPs learn that GCHQ can spy on them, too, so now we may get a debate on surveillance theguardian.com/world/2015/oct…
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GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules
Owen Bowcott (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Now we know the NSA blew the black budget breaking crypto, how can you defend yourself? eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/how-…
#10yrsago 23andme & Ancestry.com aggregated the world’s DNA; the police obliged them by asking for it web.archive.org/web/2015102303…
#10yrsago A chess-set you wear in a ring imgur.com/worlds-smallest-ches…
#10yrsago Exploiting smartphone cables as antennae that receive silent, pwning voice commands wired.com/2015/10/this-radio-t…
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How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago NYPD won’t disclose what it does with its secret military-grade X-ray vans web.archive.org/web/2015101721…
#10yrsago The International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo: greatly improved, but something important has been lost back-then.tumblr.com/post/1314…
#5yrsago Happy World Standards Day or not pluralistic.net/2020/10/18/mid…
#5yrsago Amazon returns end up in landfills pluralistic.net/2020/10/16/luc…
#5yrsago UK to tax Amazon's victims pluralistic.net/2020/10/16/luc…
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The past is a foreign country
back-then (Tumblr)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Ferris wheel offices pluralistic.net/2020/10/16/luc…
#5yrsago Kids reason, adults rationalize pluralistic.net/2020/10/19/nan…
#1yrago You should be using an RSS reader pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/kee…
#1yrago Educator sued for criticising "invigilation" tool pluralistic.net/2020/10/17/pro…
#1yrago Blue states should play "constitutional hardball" pluralistic.net/2024/10/18/sta…
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Cory Doctorow
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#1yrago Penguin Random House, AI, and writers' rights pluralistic.net/2024/10/19/gan…
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Cory Doctorow
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Thursday's threads: The AI that we'll have after AI; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11538502…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-16 17:28:20
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 "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
MacmillanCory 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:
* #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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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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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…
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Cory Doctorow launches Enshittification | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
mtl.drawnandquarterly.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Barcelona: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
* #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/
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Conferencia - 4D
4D DIGITALITZACIÓ DEMOCRÀTICA I DRETS DIGITALSCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd)
* #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…
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/event…
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…
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Web Summit, Lisbon
Web SummitCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…
* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…
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Downstream IRL, Aaron Bastani in conversation with Cory Doctorow
DICECory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification (Smart Cookies)
youtube.com/watch?v=-BoORwEPlQ…
* Enshittification (The Gist)
youtube.com/watch?v=EgBiv_KchI…
* Canadian tariffs with Avi Lewis
plagal.wordpress.com/2025/10/1…
* Enshittification (This Is Hell)
thisishell.com/interviews/1864…
* Enshittification (Computer Says Maybe)
csm.transistor.fm/episodes/got…
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Why does the INTERNET suck so bad now? | Cory Doctorow, author of ENSHITIFICATION, has a few ideas
YouTubeCory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #SanFrancisco, #Portland and #Seattle!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Josiah
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"...critics warn that government-subsidized stores could undercut private small grocers, distort food prices, harm consumer choice and ultimately weaken competition."
Actually, they can't do any of that, because all those are effects that Walmart purposefully does to the maximum extent possible.
Atlanta’s city-run grocery sees early success, sparking debate over government’s role
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Tom
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"Trump (a man who never met a grievance that was too petty to pursue) orders Tim Cook (a man who never found a boot he wouldn't lick)"
Brutal! 🤣
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