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Inside: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital"; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zer…
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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 #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
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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"Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital": It's a zero-sum game.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11552535…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-10 12:17:46
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Aurora Borealis Reliefs aurora-borealis-reliefs.com/
* Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-wi…
* The Future of Online Privacy Hinges on Thousands of New Jersey Cops wired.com/story/daniels-law-ne…
* Digi-Comp I en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Com…
* Blocking of Cloudflare IPs in Spain cybersecurityadvisors.network/…
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Mechanical computer
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Where do trolls come from? web.archive.org/web/2005112414…
#20yrsago Lists of corrupted CDs web.archive.org/web/2005110409…
#20yrsago Wanna sue the pants off Sony? web.archive.org/web/2005111313…
#20yrsago Katamari sushi flickr.com/photos/59199828@N00…
#20yrsago Sony’s EULA is worse than their rootkit web.archive.org/web/2005111313…
#20yrsago List of CDs infected with Sony’s rootkit DRM web.archive.org/web/2005111313…
#15yrsago TSA: checkpoint groping doesn’t exist web.archive.org/web/2010111201…
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katamari-toyota.jpg
FlickrCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago RIP, Robbins Barstow, godfather of the home movie revival amateurism.wordpress.com/2010/…
#15yrsago Math papers with complicated, humbling titles web.archive.org/web/2010111322…
#15yrsago Shirky: Times paywall is pretty much like all the other paywalls shirky.com/weblog/the-times-pa…
#10yrsago 10,000 wax cylinders digitized and free to download cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/ind…
#10yrsago The Economist’s anti-ad-blocking tool was hacked and infected readers’ computers theverge.com/2015/11/6/9681124…
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A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers
Russell Brandom (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago EU wants to require permission to make a link on the Web felixreda.eu/2015/11/ancillary…
#10yrsago Federal judge orders NSA to stop collecting and searching plaintiffs’ phone records eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/nsa-…
#10yrsago Here’s the kind of data the UK government will have about you, in realtime web.archive.org/web/2015111203…
#10yrsago The CIA writes like Lovecraft, Bureau of Prisons is like Stephen King, & NSA is like… muckrock.com/news/archives/201…
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NSA Ordered to Stop Collecting, Querying Plaintiffs' Phone Records
Electronic Frontier FoundationCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Unevenly distributed future: America’s online education systemhttps://medium.com/@cshirky/the-digital-revolution-in-higher-education-has-already-happened-no-one-noticed-78ec0fec16c7
#10yrsago Chelsea Manning’s statement for Aaron Swartz Day 2015 aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-man…
#10yrsago Unevenly distributed futures: Hong Kong’s amazing towershttps://www.peterstewartphotography.com/Portfolio/Stacked-Hong-Kong
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Chelsea Manning’s Statement for Aaron Swartz Day 2015 | Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon
www.aaronswartzday.orgCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago UK corporate registrar bans code-injection pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/bou…
#5yrsago Student data breaches vastly underreported pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/bou…
#5yrsago Boundless Realms pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/bou…
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Pluralistic: 09 Nov 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Facebook's fraud files; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11551491…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-08 16:01:03
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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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #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/…
* #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…
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Downstream IRL, Aaron Bastani in conversation with Cory Doctorow
DICECory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
libraryfoundationsd.org/events…
* #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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Cory Doctorow Talks Enshittification
libraryfoundationsd.orgCory Doctorow
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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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Enshittification and How To Fight It: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
Ron Knox (Who Shall Rule)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: “Flexible labor” is a euphemism for “derisking capital” (10 Nov 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 #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
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
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