Brother makes a demon-haunted printer: The internet is a portal to hell.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-05 16:47:31

You guys, I don't want to bum you out or anything, but I think there's a good chance than some self-described capitalists *aren't really into capitalism*.

Sorry.

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Pluralistic: Brother makes a demon-haunted printer (05 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#20yrsago How legitimacy ties activists’ hands comeuppance.blogspot.com/2005/…

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#5yrsago The web is unusably beshitted with terrible ad-tech pluralistic.net/2020/03/06/rob…

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#5yrsago Clearview AI says it only lets cops use its facial recognition tool but it's lying pluralistic.net/2020/03/06/rob…

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#5yrsago American Catholic officials helped priests who preyed on children escape to Mexico pluralistic.net/2020/03/06/rob…

#5yrsago The king of Dutch climate denial was secretly in Shell's pay pluralistic.net/2020/03/06/rob…

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#1yrago Electrons, not molecules https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/06/exxonknew/#🔥

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Yesterday's threads: There Were Always Enshittifiers; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-04 13:26:17

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: There Were Always Enshittifiers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/obj…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: There Were Always Enshittifiers (04 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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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.

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* #Richmond, VA: Picks and Shovels with Lee Vinsel, Mar 5
fountainbookstore.com/events/1…

* Virtual: With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It (Indiana University), Mar 7
events.iu.edu/mediaiub/event/1…

* #Austin: Reclaim, Reframe, Reimagine, Mar 7
schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/…

* #Austin: EFF-Austin Salon, Mar 7
grotto101.com/effaustinsxsalon…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Austin: Tensions in Creative Labor & Generative AI, Mar 8
schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/…

* #Austin: The Next 25: A Conversation About the Future of Open, Mar 8
classy.org/event/creative-comm…

* #Austin: Fediverse House, Mar 10
about.flipboard.com/fediverse-…

* #Austin: Picks and Shovels at First Light Books, Mar 10
thethirdplace.is/event/cory-do…

* Europa Park: Cloudfest, Mar 17-20
cloudfest.link/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Virtual: Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast, Mar 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…

* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
exileinbookville.com/events/44…

* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
techshow.com/

* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
morgensternbooks.com/event/202…

* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/

* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* Democracy Now
youtube.com/watch?v=tKV5GB6dN3…

* The Culture Show
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* Picks and Shovels with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop (Jacobin)
youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4L…

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in RICHMOND, VA TONIGHT with LEE VINSEL (Mar 5):

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An in AUSTIN at FIRST LIGHT BOOKS on Mar 10:

thethirdplace.is/event/cory-do…

More tour dates here:

martinhench.com

Mail-order signed copies from LA's Diesel Books:

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