Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country'; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/ath…
1/
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country'; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/ath…
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 #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
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
Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country': Short stories so expertly spun you'll hardly know you've been ensnared.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11553053…
3/
Cory Doctorow
2025-11-11 10:13:20
Zhi Zhu 🕸️ reshared this.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Hey look at this
* The Authoritarian Stack authoritarian-stack.info/
* A World of New Learnings with Chelsea Manning youtube.com/watch?v=BTrAzGu6Fu…
* Voters Just Demanded an End to the Number Go Up Economy thebignewsletter.com/p/monopol…
* Civil society and empty bottles not-so-obvious.net/civil-socie…
4/
Civil society and empty bottles
ginger coons (Not so obvious)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#20yrsago Agent to the Stars: comic sf about an alien race’s Hollywood agent memex.craphound.com/2005/11/10…
#15yrsago ACTA will force your ISP to censor your work if someone lodges an unsupported trademark claim itnews.com.au/news/acta-isps-c…
#15yrsago Free Kinect drivers released; Adafruit pays $3k bounty to hacker, $2k more to EFF blog.adafruit.com/2010/11/10/w…
#15yrsago White paper on 3D printing and the law: the coming copyfight publicknowledge.org/it-will-be…
5/
It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing - Public Knowledge
Michael Weinberg (Public Knowledge)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#15yrsago UK security chief upset at being asked to surrender banned items at Heathrow mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/terr…
#10yrsago All smart TVs are watching you back, but Vizio’s spyware never blinks propublica.org/article/own-a-v…
#10yrsago Gallery of the Soviet Union’s most desirable personal computers rbth.com/multimedia/pictures/2…
#10yrsago Future Forms: beautifully curated collection of space-age electronics future-forms.com/
6/
Own a Vizio Smart TV? It’s Watching You
Julia Angwin (ProPublica)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#10yrsago The Four Horsemen of Gentrification: Brine, Snark, Brunch, Whole Foods mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-fo…
#10yrsago America’s airlines send planes to El Salvador, China for service by undertrained technicians vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/ai…
#10yrsago Google releases critical AI program under a free/open license wired.com/2015/11/google-open-…
#10yrsago UK law will allow secret backdoor orders for software, imprison you for disclosing them arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
7/
Snooper’s Charter: UK gov’t can demand backdoors, give prison sentences for disclosing them
Glyn Moody (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#5yrsago Broadband wins the 2020 election pluralistic.net/2020/11/10/dar…
#5yrsago Rights of Nature and legal standing pluralistic.net/2020/11/10/dar…
#5yrsago Microchip "dark matter" pluralistic.net/2020/11/10/dar…
8/
Pluralistic: 10 Nov 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Yesterday's threads: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital"; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11552540…
9/
Cory Doctorow
2025-11-10 12:30:11
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…
10/
Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory 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/
11/
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Upcoming appearances:
* #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/…
* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…
12/
Hay Festival After Hours
Hay FestivalCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…
* 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…
* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
libraryfoundationsd.org/events…
13/
In Conversation: Enshittification
EventbriteCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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…
14/
Neuroscience, AI, and Society
Computational Neuroscience CenterCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Recent appearances:
* How to dis-Enshittify the world (Blood In the Machine)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to…
* Reimagining Digital Public Infrastructure (Attention: Govern Or Be Governed)
youtube.com/watch?v=F8JuXDfDtB…
* Enshittification and How To Fight It (ILSR)
whoshallrule.com/p/enshittific…
* Big Tech’s “Enshittification” & Bill McKibben on Solar Hope for the Planet
writersvoice.net/2025/11/cory-…
* Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFy…
15/
Enshittification and How To Fight It: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
Ron Knox (Who Shall Rule)Cory 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/2025/11/11/ath…
--
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/
16/
Pluralistic: Theodora Goss’s ‘Letters From an Imaginary Country’ (11 Nov 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 #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
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.netcricket_bacon
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Cory Doctorow
in reply to cricket_bacon • • •Sensitive content
cricket_bacon
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
"talk to your local booksellers!"
Will do!
Hopefully we will be able to get you here:
Rainy Day Books is Kansas City's oldest Independent #Bookstore in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Since 1975, Rainy Day Books has been more than just a bookstore. They are a catalyst for positive change in our community.
rainydaybooks.com/
And while you are in #KC, hopefully you can appear on our #NPR affiliate: #KCUR.
kcur.org/
KCUR | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR
KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR