#10yrsago Georgia sues Carl Malamud, calls publishing state laws “terrorism” https://www.techdirt.com/2015/07/24/state-georgia-sues-carl-malamud-copyright-infringement-publishing-states-own-laws/

#10yrsago Explosion at NIST offices was a meth lab https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/07/meth-lab-explodes-inside-government-building.html

#10yrsago If phones were designed to please their owners, rather than corporations https://vimeo.com/134128443

#10yrsago London terror cops forced to admit they’re still investigating journos who reported Snowden leaks https://theintercept.com/2015/07/24/uk-met-police-snowden-investigation-journalists/

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#10yrsago Darth Vibrader: a Vader mannequin made from sex toys https://www.huffpost.com/entry/porn-star-kayla-jane-danger-builds-sex-toy-darth-vader-nsfw_n_55afdbc3e4b0a9b948535810

#10yrsago How .uk came to be (and why it’s not .gb) https://web.archive.org/web/20150910044243/https://30yearsof.uk/the-birth-of-uk-an-oral-history-ab3ebc0e499f

#5yrsago Mass market book sales surge https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#massmarket

#5yrsago Private equity doesn't create value, it destroys it https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#looters

#5yrsago Changes coming to UK's feudal "leaseholds https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#neofeudalism

#5yrsago Facebook's morale problem https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#eichmanns-and-oppenheimers

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#5yrsago 401(k)s are a scam https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#are-there-no-poorhouses

#5yrsago Central London property prices tank https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#innit

#5yrsago US copyright is a disaster for Mexico https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#hecho-en-mexico

#1yrago AI's productivity theater https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/accountability-sinks/#work-harder-not-smarter

#1yrago FTC vs surveillance pricing https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/gouging-the-all-seeing-eye/#i-spy

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Thursday's threads: Trump's FCC abandons the future; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114909532798456429

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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:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels

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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:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

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Upcoming appearances:

* #SanDiego: ACM Collective Intelligence keynote, Aug 5
https://ci.acm.org/2025/speakers/cory-doctorow/

* #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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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1504647263469

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Recent appearances:

* ORG at 20: In conversation with Maria Farrell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9H2An_D6io

* Why aren't we controlling our own tech? (Co-Op Congress)
https://www.youtube.com/live/GLrDwHgeCy4?si=NUWxPphk0FS_3g9J&t=4409

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

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Today's top sources: Roz Doctorow, Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/), Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/), Dr Savage (https://www.saiph.org/).

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114920968512589834

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