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Inside: Iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/07/26/man…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
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Iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination: Also: bricked exercise gear, Air Canada luggage mystery, and praise for *Enshittification*.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-26 17:57:16
Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Canadian telco that blocked union websites is breaking all kinds of laws web.archive.org/web/2005102818…
#20yrsago Damning Sony payola memos: “I’m a whore this week” somafm.com/payola/payola2.pdf
#15yrsago What “curated computing” can and can’t deliver theguardian.com/technology/201…
#15yrsago UK govt proposes volunteer “police reserve” theguardian.com/uk/2010/jul/26…
#15yrsago Street-Fighting Math: down and dirty guide to approximation and problem-solving web.archive.org/web/2010060509…
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Cameron's answer to budget cuts: get public involved in 'DIY' policing
Alan Travis (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago EFF wins enormous victory against DRM: legal to jailbreak iPhones, rip DVDs for mashup videos memex.craphound.com/2010/07/26…
#5yrsago Lovely video review for Poesy the Monster Slayer pluralistic.net/2020/07/26/fie…
#5yrsago Green Growth pluralistic.net/2020/07/26/fie…
#1yrago Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taa…
#20yrsago How Craigslist changed NYC web.archive.org/web/2005072701…
#20yrsago Game-modder rips into anti-modder US politicos web.archive.org/web/2005072800…
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EFF wins enormous victory against DRM: legal to jailbreak iPhones, rip DVDs for mashup videos – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
memex.craphound.comCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago War on Terror as a series of Unix shell interactions web.archive.org/web/2005080608…
#20yrsago TSA Secure Flight: criminal disaster schneier.com/blog/archives/200…
#20yrsago Promise TV — PVR records a month’s worth of shows from all channels web.archive.org/web/2005081101…
#15yrsago Federal judge says you can break DRM if you’re not doing so to infringe copyright web.archive.org/web/2010072809…
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Secure Flight - Schneier on Security
Schneier on SecurityCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Existential D&D comedy: when characters realize they are trapped in adolescents’ imagination carltonmellick.com/2010/07/01/…
#15yrsago Terrified guardians of public safety protect kids from rocks, other imaginary dangers forbes.com/2010/07/21/consumer…
#10yrsago Chrysler has to recall its cars due to security vulnerabilities web.archive.org/web/2015072804…
#10yrsago Jamaica’s new copyright means Jamaicans pay for reggae the rest of the world gets free eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/anat…
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OUT NOW: The Kobold Wizard’s Dildo of Enlightenment +2
Carlton Mellick IIICory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Georgia sues Carl Malamud, calls publishing state laws “terrorism” techdirt.com/2015/07/24/state-…
#10yrsago Explosion at NIST offices was a meth lab nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/0…
#10yrsago If phones were designed to please their owners, rather than corporations vimeo.com/134128443
#10yrsago London terror cops forced to admit they’re still investigating journos who reported Snowden leaks theintercept.com/2015/07/24/uk…
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U.K. Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists
Ryan Gallagher (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#10yrsago Darth Vibrader: a Vader mannequin made from sex toys huffpost.com/entry/porn-star-k…
#10yrsago How .uk came to be (and why it’s not .gb) web.archive.org/web/2015091004…
#5yrsago Mass market book sales surge pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/sof…
#5yrsago Private equity doesn't create value, it destroys it pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/sof…
#5yrsago Changes coming to UK's feudal "leaseholds pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/sof…
#5yrsago Facebook's morale problem pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/sof…
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Porn Star Kayla-Jane Danger Builds Darth Vader Using Sex Toys (NSFW)
David Moye (HuffPost)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago 401(k)s are a scam pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/der…
#5yrsago Central London property prices tank pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/der…
#5yrsago US copyright is a disaster for Mexico pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/der…
#1yrago AI's productivity theater pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/acc…
#1yrago FTC vs surveillance pricing pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/gou…
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Pluralistic: 25 Jul 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Thursday's threads: Trump's FCC abandons the future; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-24 18:05:22
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 next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from 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."
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #SanDiego: ACM Collective Intelligence keynote, Aug 5
ci.acm.org/2025/speakers/cory-…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
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Cory Doctorow - ACM Collective Intelligence 2025
ACM Collective Intelligence 2025Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
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An Evening with Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* ORG at 20: In conversation with Maria Farrell
youtube.com/watch?v=M9H2An_D6i…
* Why aren't we controlling our own tech? (Co-Op Congress)
youtube.com/live/GLrDwHgeCy4?s…
* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again? (The Agenda/TVO)
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ORG at 20: Cory Doctorow in conversation with Maria Farrell
YouTubeCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination (26 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Today's top sources: Roz Doctorow, Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com/), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com/), Dr Savage (saiph.org/).
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naked capitalism: Finance, economics, politics, power
naked capitalismCory Doctorow
2025-07-26 18:33:37
Cory Doctorow
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Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
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Clarion Write-a-Thon | Cory Doctorow
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Co-op Congress 2025 – Friday 4 July
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •This is a good one.
For the Air Canada stuff alone (a familiar story put in perspective), I first thought, but the whole column kicks hard to the end.
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