Big Tech and "captive audience venues": The digital equivalent of baseball stadiums and airport concourses.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-28 18:21:49

Enshittification is what you get when tech companies, run by the common-or-garden mediocre sociopaths who end up at the top of most businesses, are unshackled from any consequence for indulging their worst, greediest impulses:

pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/cap…

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* FTC Commissioners File Suit to Contest Trump’s Alleged Firing prospect.org/justice/2025-03-2…

* Screamboat Is a Both a Steamboat Willie Horror Movie and Hardcore Disney Fan Film gizmodo.com/screamboat-directo…

* Ploopy upgraded its new Classic 2 open-source trackball with better scrolling theverge.com/news/637794/ploop…

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#20yrsago How HDTV killed firefighters, birthed the Broadcast Flag, and screwed America web.archive.org/web/2005102018…

#15yrsago ACLU prevails: US Fed Judge invalidates gene patent aclu.org/cases/association-mol…

#15yrsago UK record lobby has vehement feelings on Digital Economy Bill debate, won’t say what they are theguardian.com/technology/201…

#15yrsago Leaked doc: EU wants to destroy and rewrite Canada’s IP laws michaelgeist.ca/2010/03/ceta-d…

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#10yrsago Stephen King versus Maine’s lying governor rawstory.com/2015/03/stephen-k…

#5yrsago Don't worry about groceries pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/gri…

#5yrsago California's missing medical stockpile pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/gri…

#5yrsago Cozy Catastrophes pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/gri…

#5yrsago Andrew Cuomo is not your woke bae pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/gri…

#5yrsago Alex Jones's one-two punch pluralistic.net/2020/03/29/gri…

#1yrago Subprime gadgets pluralistic.net/2024/03/29/boo…

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Yesterday's threads: Reality-Based Communities; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-27 15:17:18

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Reality-Based Communities; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/27/use…

#Pluralistic

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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.

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Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
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* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
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* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
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* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
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* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
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* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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