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Inside: Conspiratorialism and neoliberalism; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Conspiratorialism and neoliberalism; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/07/19/sys…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
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Clarion Write-a-Thon | Cory Doctorow
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Conspiratorialism and neoliberalism: If "there is no such thing as society" then all evil must be the fault of evil individuals.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-19 17:50:15
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Here Comes the Sun billmckibben.substack.com/p/sh…
* Elon Musk’s Neuralink filed as ‘disadvantaged business’ before being valued at $9 billion cnbc.com/2025/07/17/elon-musks… (h/t JWZ)
* The Met Collection metmuseum.org/art/collection (h/t Henry Farrell)
* The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything thebignewsletter.com/p/the-num…
* Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amaz…
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Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion
Lora Kolodny (CNBC)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Woo-fighting scientist takes the funny high-road when libeled by millionaire “nutritionist” badscience.net/2010/07/and-the…
#15yrsago Indian bureaucracy to VS Naipaul: Can you prove that you’re really Indian? timesofindia.indiatimes.com/in…
#10yrsago Congress’s groovy, formerly secret fallout shelter atlasobscura.com/places/congre…
#10yrsago MRI scans of food insideinsides.blogspot.com/
#1yrago Richard R John's "Network Nation" pluralistic.net/2024/07/18/the…
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Congressional Fallout Shelter at the Greenbrier Resort
ugc (Atlas Obscura)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: MAGA crackup; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-18 17:04:16
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."
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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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:
* ORG at 20: In conversation with Maria Farrell
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* Why aren't we controlling our own tech? (Co-Op Congress)
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* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again? (The Agenda/TVO)
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Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism and neoliberalism (19 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Today's top sources: Garvin Jabusch.
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Cory Doctorow
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Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
clarionwriteathon.com/members/…
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Clarion Write-a-Thon | Cory Doctorow
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Unknown parent • • •It reminded me of a funny, but also insightful book I once read, called "Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarden"
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