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…

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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…

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#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…

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#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/
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#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…

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#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…

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Yesterday's threads: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital"; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11552540…

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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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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:

* #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/…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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

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Sad to see Kansas City did not make your list.

@cricket_bacon talk to your local booksellers! Tours are booked out on the basis of how many people the bookseller promises to bring in for an event. They just need to talk to my publisher's representative, whom they will have an account with, if they want the next tour to bring me there. I would be delighted, as I've always had good events there, and I am also a barbecue fan.

"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/