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Inside: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm at the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
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I hope you can make it!
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
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A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance: A final thought for the yule.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-12-18 14:43:45
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Hey look at this
* Meta ICharging Businesses To Post Links socialmediatoday.com/news/meta…
* Original Mozilla "Dinosaur" logo jwz.org/blog/2025/12/the-origi…
* Local Self-Reliance Agenda for NYC ilsr.org/articles/memo-mamdani…
* Apple loses: scathing contempt ruling on iOS payments arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
* The Net'’s Tollbooth Operators prospect.org/2025/12/10/intern…
* Barnum's Law of CEOs antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…
* Google Shares All Your Text Messages With Your Employer archive.ph/wE2U7#selection-393…
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The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators
Rhoda Feng (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Star Wars droidflake twitpic.com/3guwfq
#15yrsago TSA misses enormous, loaded .40 calibre handgun in carry-on bag web.archive.org/web/2010121722…
#15yrsago Brazilian TV clown elected to high office, passes literacy test web.archive.org/web/2011121723…
#15yrsago My Internet problem: an abundance of choice theguardian.com/technology/blo…
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The Internet Problem: when an abundance of choice becomes an issue
Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago LEAKED: The secret catalog American law enforcement orders cellphone-spying gear from theintercept.com/2015/12/16/a-… Bernie Sanders was more popular than Trump, but the press ignores him theintercept.com/2015/12/17/wh…
#10yrsago Putin: Give Sepp Blatter the Nobel; Trump should be president theguardian.com/football/2015/…
#10yrsago Star Wars medical merch from Scarfolk, the horror-town stuck in the 1970s scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/12/…
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Fifa’s Sepp Blatter should be awarded Nobel Peace Prize, says Vladimir Putin
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Some countries learned from America’s copyright mistakes: TPP will undo that eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/how-…
#10yrsago No evidence that San Bernardino shooters posted about jihad on Facebook web.archive.org/web/2015121700…
#10yrsago Exponential population growth and other unkillable science myths web.archive.org/web/2015121720…
#10yrsago UK’s unaccountable crowdsourced blacklist to be crosslinked to facial recognition system arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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Pre-crime arrives in the UK with a crowdsourced watch list
Sebastian Anthony (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#1yrago Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate pluralistic.net/2024/12/17/das…
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Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate (17 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-12-17 17:26:42
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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 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…
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Cory Doctorow
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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/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification on The Last Show With David Cooper:
iheart.com/podcast/256-the-las…
* (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU)
vimeo.com/1146281673
* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
youtube.com/watch?v=34gkIvYiHx…
* Enshittification on The Daily Show
youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5n…
* Enshittification with Four Ways to Change the World (Channel 4)
youtube.com/watch?v=tZQaEeuuI3…
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Cory Doctorow: Ensh*ttification - December 16, 2025 - The Last Show with David Cooper | iHeart
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Pluralistic: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm at the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
I hope you can make it!
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
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sam
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •An interesting thing about that Daily Show interview is that you mention Myspace and also Ronny talks about how Facebook made things easier for the average non-tech person to use. I remember that myself and many other people learned some html and css to be able to modify our myspace profiles. For many people it was a stepping stone to go on and learn more about web design and development.
There's no reason that social media today couldn't do similar. For example, on snac2 each user can have their own custom style.css.
Being able to modify my profile and make things my own were a big part of what I liked about Myspace. Make the web fun and interesting and personal and it will be easier for people to learn. Or if they're not interested in that, then choose the platform with the aesthetic they like, but like you said, make them interoperable.
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