Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/xor…
1/
⇧
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/xor…
1/
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
2/
Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works": Steampunk dinosaurs scratch-build a pressurized air-based, Turing complete, universal von Neumann machine.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11549809…
3/
Cory Doctorow
2025-11-05 16:43:28
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Hey look at this
* Zohran Mamdani: “Hope Is Alive” jacobin.com/2025/11/zohran-mam…
* Credit Card-Thin Handheld Has 300 Games and A Multiplayer Cable yankodesign.com/2025/11/05/cre…
* ‘The Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Bets Against AI Hype gizmodo.com/the-big-short-inve…
* I'm an Amazon employee, and I co-sign this letter anonymously amazonclimatejustice.org/open-…
* Epic and Google agree to settle their lawsuit and change Android’s fate globally theverge.com/policy/813991/epi…
4/
Epic and Google agree to settle their lawsuit and change Android’s fate globally
Sean Hollister (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#20yrsago Google print hurts kids! memex.craphound.com/2005/11/05…
#15yrsago HOWTO graft the RFID from a payment-card onto your phone bunniestudios.com/blog/2010/rf…
#15yrsago Lincolnbot Mark I https://web.archive.org/web/20101107224026/http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/11/walt-disney-one-mans-dream-re-opens-with-new-magic-fond-memories-at-disney’s-hollywood-studios/
#15yrsago Crutchfield Dermatology of Minneapolis claims copyright in everything you write, forever, to keep you from posting complaints on the net memex.craphound.com/2010/11/05…
5/
Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream Reopens With New Magic, Fond Memories at Disney’s Hollywood Studios « Disney Parks Blog
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#15yrsago Botmasters include fake control interface to ensnare security researchers web.archive.org/web/2010110600…
#15yrsago Young Asian refugee claimant sneaks onto Air Canada flight from HK disguised as old white guy cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11…
#15yrsago Zoo City: hard-boiled South African urban fantasy makes murder out of magic memex.craphound.com/2010/11/05…
#15yrsago Shortly after Murdoch buys National Geographic, he fires its award-winning journalists pewresearch.org/journalism/201…
6/
The Wall Street Journal under Rupert Murdoch
Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media staff (Pew Research Center)Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#10yrsago British government will (unsuccessfully) ban end-to-end encryption memex.craphound.com/2015/11/05…
#10yrsago Man killed by his tapeworm’s cancer livescience.com/52695-tapeworm…
#10yrsago Washington Redskins’ lawyers enumerate other grossly offensive trademarks for the USPTO techdirt.com/2015/11/04/how-re…
#10yrsago New Zealand’s lost colossus: all-mechanical racetrack oddsmaking computer hackaday.com/2015/11/04/tote-b…
7/
How The Redskins' Delightfully Vulgar Court Filing Won Me Over
TechdirtCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
#5yrsago Ant, Uber, and the true nature of money pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/got…
#1yrago How to have cancer pluralistic.net/2024/11/05/car…
8/
Pluralistic: 05 Nov 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Saturday's threads: There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11547626…
9/
Cory Doctorow
2025-11-01 20:13:06
G. Gibson reshared this.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
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…
--
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…
10/
Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
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/
11/
Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
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…
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…
12/
An Evening with Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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/…
* London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…
13
OII | Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now
www.oii.ox.ac.ukCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-pres…
* #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…
14/
Cory Doctorow Talks Enshittification
libraryfoundationsd.orgG. Gibson reshared this.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Recent appearances:
* 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…
* Amanpour & Co (New Yorker Radio Hour)
youtube.com/watch?v=I8l1uSb0LZ…
* Enshittification is Not Inevitable (Team Human)
teamhuman.fm/episodes/339-cory…
15/
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification is Not Inevitable
Team HumanG. Gibson reshared this.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!
Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/xor…
--
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is ad-/tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "📦". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!
--
You can also get a fulltext RSS feed, licensed CC BY 4.0:
pluralistic.net/feed/
16/
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
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
eof/
Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netRay Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/xor…
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑 • • •