#20yrsago Tit of justice reinstated by Supreme Torturer Gonzales https://web.archive.org/web/20050910170445/http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-24-doj-statue_x.htm

#20yrsago What tomorrow’s Grokster SCOTUS ruling will mean https://web.archive.org/web/20050827114341/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003742.php

#15yrsago Toronto’s secret ID law used to arrest G20 protestor https://web.archive.org/web/20100628022932/http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/828372--man-arrested-and-left-in-wire-cage-under-new-g20-law

#10yrsago Why parents in Cincinnati camp out for 16 days to get a kindergarten spot https://medium.com/@hellogerard/waiting-for-kindergarten-62a14d4f1ce5

#10yrsago Stephen Harper ready to sign TPP and throw Tory rural base under the bus https://memex.craphound.com/2015/06/25/stephen-harper-ready-to-sign-tpp-and-throw-tory-rural-base-under-the-bus/

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#10yrsago How the UK Prime Minister’s office gets around Freedom of Information requests https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/downing-st-accused-of-deliberate-attempts-to-avoid-freedom-of-information-requests-as-exstaff-reveal-automated-deletion-system-10325231.html

#10yrsago They’re tearing down the Adventurer’s Club https://memex.craphound.com/2015/06/25/theyre-tearing-down-the-adventurers-club/

#10yrsago David Byrne and St Vincent celebrate Color Guard with astounding Contemporary Color show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8jSWQtC_fA

#5yrsago 759 Trump atrocities https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/25/canada-reads/#m-o

#5yrsago How Big Tech distorts discourse https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/25/canada-reads/#oii

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#1yrago Mirion Malle's "So Long Sad Love" https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/25/missing-step/#the-fog-of-love

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Yesterday's threads: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114738623795418115

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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:

* Virtual: Surveillance Capitalism: Who owns your data? (World Salon), Jun 26
https://www.world-salon.com/event/95

* #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/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* #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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