Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/10/28/pro…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/10/28/pro…
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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 #Miami, #Burbank and #Lisbon!
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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Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off": A self-defense guide for creative workers.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11545245…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-28 15:17:08
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Twitter, Free Speech Absolutism, and Adoxastic Enshittification contemporaryrhetoric.com/wp-co…
* This Wreckage Courtesy of the Enshittification Administration: Notes On Late-State Trumpism meditationsinanemergency.com/t…
* Air filters have DRM now 🤦♂️ youtube.com/watch?v=LCu_n2Nddu…
* Washington’s Battery Strategy Is Upside Down christopherchico.substack.com/… (h/t Naked Capitalism)
* The New York Times is wrong about the electoral value of moderation gelliottmorris.com/p/the-new-y…
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The New York Times is wrong about the electoral value of moderation | Weekly roundup for October 26, 2025
G. Elliott Morris (Strength In Numbers)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Build a gingerbread Phantom Manor from Disneyland Paris haunteddimensions.raykeim.com/…
#15yrsago HOWTO explain the Internet to a Dickensian street urchin fastcompany.com/1697711/flowch…
#10yrsago Librarian of Congress grants limited DRM-breaking rights for cars, games, phones, tablets, and remixers memex.craphound.com/2015/10/27…
#10yrsago EU, worn down by telcoms lobbyists, pass brutal net discrimination rules arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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Net neutrality: EU votes in favour of Internet fast lanes and slow lanes
Glyn Moody (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Ministry of Irony: Orwell estate tries to censor mentions of the number 1984 torrentfreak.com/orwell-estate…
#10yrsago Pirates are the best customers: just sell good stuff at a reasonable price in a timely fashion youtube.com/watch?v=XXxzWgl3nH…
#10yrsago Elite “wealth managers”: Renfields to the one percent bloodsuckers theatlantic.com/business/archi…
#10yrsago The Abaddon: graphic novel based loosely on Sartre’s No Exit memex.craphound.com/2015/10/27…
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How Wealthy People Protect Their Money
Brooke Harrington (The Atlantic)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Surveillance startup protected sexual harassers pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea…
#5yrsago Comcast v Comcast pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea…
#5yrsago The president's extraordinary powers pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea…
#5yrsago Monopolies Suck pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea…
#5yrsago Ferris wheel fine dining pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea…
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Pluralistic: 27 Oct 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11544647…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-27 13:57:08
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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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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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #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…
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An Evening with Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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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Hay Festival After Hours
Hay FestivalCory Doctorow
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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…
* #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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In Conversation: Enshittification
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* CA Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFy…
* Amanpour & Co (New Yorker Radio Hour)
youtube.com/watch?v=I8l1uSb0LZ…
* Enshittification is Not Inevitable (Team Human)
teamhuman.fm/episodes/339-cory…
* The Great Enshittening (The Gray Area)
reddit.com/r/philosophypodcast…
* Enshittification (Smart Cookies)
youtube.com/watch?v=-BoORwEPlQ…
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Cory Doctorow: Enshittification is Not Inevitable
Team HumanCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Raymond Beisinger’s “9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off” (28 Oct 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 #Miami, #Burbank and #Lisbon!
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.netKorben Dallas
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