Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: MAGA crackup; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: MAGA crackup; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/07/18/win…
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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
clarionwriteathon.comCory Doctorow
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MAGA crackup: Not just Epstein (but also Epstein).
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-18 16:48:51
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Fascism For First Time Founders techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascis…
* Could AI slow science? aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-slow…
* How One 1990s Browser Decision Created Big Tech’s Data Monopolies (And How We Might Finally Fix It) techdirt.com/2025/07/16/how-on…
* Connecticut House Passes Landmark eBook Bill ebookstudygroup.org/connecticu… (h/t Dan Gillmor)
* The INCOMM Scientology Keyboard / Cherry G80-1165HAU reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboar… (h/t Boing Boing)
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Could AI slow science?
Sayash Kapoor (AI Snake Oil)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Winds howl over the deserted moonscape behind Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper paywalls web.archive.org/web/2010071621…
#15yrsago Vatican: ordaining women is as bad as raping children from the pulpit nytimes.com/2010/07/16/world/e…
#10yrsago Disney World after humanity’s demise deviantart.com/eledoremassis02…
#10yrsago UK schools’ “anti-radicalisation” software lets hackers spy on kids web.archive.org/web/2015071414…
#5yrsago What's in Blueleaks pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/tex…
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What’s Really Going on Behind Murdoch’s Paywall?
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Librarians' virtual escape rooms pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/tex…
#5yrsago EU court kills data-sharing deal with USA pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/tex…
#1yrago Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris's "Youth Group" pluralistic.net/2024/07/16/sat…
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Pluralistic: 16 Jul 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Wednesday's threads: Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine."; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-07-16 16:53:20
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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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #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
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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
youtube.com/watch?v=M9H2An_D6i…
* Why aren't we controlling our own tech? (Co-Op Congress)
youtube.com/live/GLrDwHgeCy4?s…
* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again? (The Agenda/TVO)
youtube.com/watch?v=KJw38uIcmE…
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Pluralistic: MAGA crackup (18 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory 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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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •> has been racing over those alligator-backs for so long now, it can sometimes feel like he'll never miss a step. But he's one snap away from losing a leg, and after that, it'll be a bloodbath.
Reminds Pirate Software drama. First he turned away some subscribers with SKG streams and videos where he not just lied, but also used arguments that contradict his point. Then WoW ratting happened, which made his "internet stocks" just low enough to stop criticizing him being a suicide.
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Stefan Edward Jones
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Current sustaining fantasy!
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! They told me this was a lizard person! I was just trying to pull its mask off! Oh god, put his face back on!"