Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: How much (little) are the AI companies making? and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/acc…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: How much (little) are the AI companies making? and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/acc…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •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 TONIGHT (July 1):
howtoacademy.com/events/cory-d…
And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on TOMORROW (July 2):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
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Cory Doctorow – The Fight Against the Big Tech Oligarchy | How To Academy
How To AcademyCory Doctorow
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How much (little) are the AI companies making?: Ed Zitron does the math.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11477646…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-01 06:03:57
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* How Bezos and Sánchez’s Venetian Bacchanal Delivered a Pitch-Perfect Ad for Socialism thedailybeast.com/how-jeff-bez… (h/t Metafilter)
* Facebook’s Enshittification Continues Apace by Penalizing Link Posts opus.ing/posts/facebooks-enshi… (h/t Roz Doctorow)
* Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach global.oup.com/academic/produc…
* Stop Destroying Videogames eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/…
* Fall '25 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Politics & Current Events publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top…
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Facebook’s Enshittification Continues Apace by Penalizing Link Posts
Jason Morehead (Opus)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Wil Wheaton’s Slashdot interview slashdot.org/story/05/06/27/09…
#20yrsago Anti-DRM badges web.archive.org/web/2005070100…
#15yrsago ACLU: America is riddled with politically motivated surveillance aclu.org/files/assets/Spyfiles…
#15yrsago Toronto cops justify extreme G20 measures with display of LARPing props, weapons from unrelated busts web.archive.org/web/2010070200…
#15yrsago Copyright best practices for communications scholars web.archive.org/web/2010062800…
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Wil Wheaton Strikes Back - Slashdot
slashdot.orgCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago G20 police used imaginary law to jail harass demonstrators and jailed protestors in dangerous and abusive “detention center” memex.craphound.com/2010/06/29…
#15yrsago Canada repeating Britain’s dirty copyright legislation process theguardian.com/technology/201…
#15yrsago London cops enforce imaginary law against brave, principled teenaged photographer independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim…
#15yrsago Globe and Mail journalist arrested and kettled at G20 Toronto web.archive.org/web/2010063011…
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Officers claim they don't need law to stop photographer taking pictures | The Independent
Jerome Taylor (The Independent)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago UK government hushed up internal analysis of anti-drug strategy to avoid ridicule transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2…
#15yrsago My Twitter debate with Minister who introduced Canada’s DMCA memex.craphound.com/2010/06/28…
#10yrsago Why I’m leaving London memex.craphound.com/2015/06/29…
#10yrsago Neal Stephenson on the story behind Seveneves bookotron.com/agony/audio/2015…
#10yrsago Brian Wood’s Starve: get to your comic shop now! memex.craphound.com/2015/06/29…
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Home Office internal document reveals bunker mentality of secrecy and suppression
transform-drugs.blogspot.comCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago BBC’s list of pages de-indexed through Europe’s “right to be forgotten” bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%…
#5yrsago NYC housing lottery favors the least-needy pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/fem…
#5yrsago Facebook and Trump collaborate on rule-rigging pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/fem…
#5yrsago How to break up Google pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/fem…
#5yrsago Female Furies pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/fem…
#5yrsago Bailouts should come with strings attached pluralistic.net/2020/06/28/kin…
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BBC pages removed from Google search results
BBCCory Doctorow
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#1yrago The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dea…
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Pluralistic: The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11476132…
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Cory Doctorow
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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:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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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:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Cory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
howtoacademy.com/events/cory-d…
* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
uk.coop/events-and-training/ev…
* Virtual: ORG at 20: in conversation with Maria Farrell, Jul 16
openrightsgroup.org/events/org…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
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Cory Doctorow – The Fight Against the Big Tech Oligarchy | How To Academy
How To AcademyCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again? (The Agenda/TVO)
youtube.com/watch?v=KJw38uIcmE…
* Forward Kentucky
youtube.com/watch?v=LpMxBBMBkZ…
* Democrats Abroad
creators.spotify.com/pod/profi…
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Cory Doctorow on Enshittification by Democrats Abroad: The Blue Vote Café
Spotify for CreatorsCory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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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 TONIGHT (July 1):
howtoacademy.com/events/cory-d…
And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on TOMORROW (July 2):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
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Cory Doctorow – The Fight Against the Big Tech Oligarchy | How To Academy
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CyberFrog
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •hey, just a heads up, your new bot filtering software is breaking firefox with noscript enabled for some reason
this seems to be because of the 301 redirects which attempt to set a
deflect_sessioncookie, which firefox + noscript strips on page reload as far as I can tell, causing an infinite reload loopI fixed it by pre-allowing your website in noscript before the page even loads, but I'm guessing this is new because it hasn't really happened to me before on your site
Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@froge Oh, wait, I figured it out - that's actually a bug with my Wordpress redirection plugin. Here's a working link:
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Angela "Ge" Ricci
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I love your work!
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Angela "Ge" Ricci • • •Dźwiedziu
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The short answer to the question posed is “yes”.
By which I mean “actually no”.
oscarfalcon
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •This sentence perfectly encapsulates the ordeal of 'hey aye':
"the asbestos in the walls of our high-tech civilization"..
-(chef's kiss).
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John 🎵
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"Ignore the real numbers around AI. If you don't believe us (and use our product), then you will lose your job, and be a relic of the past!"
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