#20yrsago Notes from fight to turn WIPO into a humanitarian agency https://web.archive.org/web/20050903072827/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003722.php

#20yrsago Software patents are bad for coders like literary patents would be for writers https://web.archive.org/web/20050622023635/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1510566,00.html

#20yrsago WIPO Development Agenda meeting docs photographed and posted https://web.archive.org/web/20051127092845/http://homes.eff.org/~renbucholz/wipo/

#20yrsago Dear Kansas: Why stop at “Intelligent Design?” What about Spaghetti Monsters? https://web.archive.org/web/20050626010148/http://www.venganza.org/

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#15yrsago Blacksad: hardboiled detective fiction about anthropomorphic animals (no, really) https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/21/blacksad-hardboiled-detective-fiction-about-anthropomorphic-animals-no-really/

#15yrsago White House guts bill that would rein in CEO salaries; you can stop them http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/proxyreform

#15yrsago New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your “precise, real-time location” https://web.archive.org/web/20100622165913/https://consumerist.com/2010/06/privacy-change-apple-knows-your-phone-is-and-is-telling-people.html

#10yrsago Doctoral dissertation in graphic novel form https://spinweaveandcut.com/unflattening/

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#10yrsago EU set to kill street photography https://medium.com/vantage/freedom-of-panorama-is-under-attack-6cc5353b4f65

#5yrsago The politicization of K-pop stans https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/21/stans/#kpop-stans

#5yrsago Yahoo is a deadbeat billionaire zombie https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/21/stans/#altaba

#1yrago Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don't https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/off-the-menu/#universally-loathed

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Yesterday's threads: The case for a Canadian wealth tax; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114733379784311326

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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.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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Upcoming appearances:

* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059

* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
https://www.uk.coop/events-and-training/events-calendar/co-op-congress-2025-book-your-place

* Virtual: ORG at 20: in conversation with Maria Farrell, Jul 16
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/

* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
https://politics-prose.com/cory-doctorow-10825

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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Recent appearances:

* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again? (The Agenda/TVO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJw38uIcmEw

* Forward Kentucky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpMxBBMBkZs

* Democrats Abroad
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/demsabroadca/episodes/Cory-Doctorow-on-Enshittification-e34blmg/a-ac0jn7i

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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!

Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on July 1:

https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/

And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059

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