Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: With Great Power Came No Responsibility; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/urs…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: With Great Power Came No Responsibility; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/urs…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in NYC TONIGHT (Feb 26) with JOHN HODGMAN:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
And at PENN STATE TOMORROW (Feb 27):
bellisario.psu.edu/assets/uplo…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
Mail-order signed copies from LA's Diesel Books:
dieselbookstore.com/picks-and-…
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Cory Doctorow + John Hodgman: Picks and Shovels
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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With Great Power Came No Responsibility: My Ursula Franklin Lecture on enshittification in the Trump age.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11406986…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-02-26 11:06:57
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Five: What Drove Uber’s Recent $8 Billion P&L Improvement? nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/hu…
* Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases theverge.com/news/618614/senat…
* Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine theverge.com/news/618784/frame…
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Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine
Sean Hollister (The Verge)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Science fiction can make you a better Unitarian uuworld.org/articles/spiritual…
#20yrsago Why Wikipedia works, and how the Britannica bully got it wrong web.archive.org/web/2005030100…
#10yrsago Nerdcore Net Neutrality rap youtube.com/watch?v=zlBj4rrBbC…
#10yrsago Emma Thompson on tax-strike until HSBC tax evaders are jailed theguardian.com/business/2015/…
#10yrsago Companies should never try to intercept their users’ encrypted traffic eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/dear…
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Emma Thompson and Greg Wise in tax boycott over HSBC scandal
Mark Tran (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago World War 3 Illustrated: prescient outrage from the dawn of the Piketty apocalypse memex.craphound.com/2015/02/26…
#10yrsago VA boss caught lying about serving in the Special Forces politico.com/story/2015/02/rob…
#5yrsago McMansion Hell visits 1971 pluralistic.net/2020/02/26/plu…
#5yrsago The Smithsonian publishes 2.8m hi-rez images into the public domain pluralistic.net/2020/02/26/plu…
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World War 3 Illustrated: prescient outrage from the dawn of the Piketty apocalypse – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
memex.craphound.comCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Medicare for All would be the biggest take-home pay increase in a generation pluralistic.net/2020/02/26/plu…
#5yrsago Clarence Thomas admits he blew it on Brand X pluralistic.net/2020/02/26/plu…
#1yrago Incomplete vs. overshoot pluralistic.net/2024/02/26/hor…
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Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 26 Feb 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Apple's encryption capitulation; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11406512…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-02-25 15:01:47
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:
chevaliersbooks.com/product-pa…
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
booksoup.com/book/978180429124…
Both are national bestsellers!
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory 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:
* #NYC: Picks and Shovels with John Hodgman, Feb 26
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #PennState: Picks and Shovels, Feb 27
bellisario.psu.edu/assets/uplo…
* #Doylestown, PA: Picks and Shovels at the Doylestown Bookshop, Mar 1
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #Baltimore: Picks and Shovels with Maximillian Alvarez, Mar 2
redemmas.org/events/cory-docto…
* #DC: Picks and Shovels with Matt Stoller, Mar 4
loyaltybookstores.com/picksnsh…
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Cory Doctorow + John Hodgman: Picks and Shovels
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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: Tensions in Creative Labor & Generative AI, Mar 8
schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/…
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With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
Indiana University CalendarCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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/
* Virtual: Picks and Shovels at Imagine! Belfast, Mar 24
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…
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SXSW '25 - About Flipboard
About FlipboardCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #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…
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
contraflowscifi.org/
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
exileinbookville.comCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* The Culture Show
wgbh.org/podcasts/the-culture-…
* Picks and Shovels with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop (Jacobin)
youtube.com/watch?v=xkIDep7Z4L…
* Forthright Radio
forthright.media/2025/02/14/co…
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February 20, 2025 - Chelsea Handler, Cory Doctorow, and the Red Bull Heavy Metal contest at Boston City Hall
GBHCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: With Great Power Came No Responsibility (26 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in NYC TONIGHT (Feb 26) with JOHN HODGMAN:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
And at PENN STATE TOMORROW (Feb 27):
bellisario.psu.edu/assets/uplo…
More tour dates here:
martinhench.com
Mail-order signed copies from LA's Diesel Books:
dieselbookstore.com/picks-and-…
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Cory Doctorow + John Hodgman: Picks and Shovels
EventbriteDave Neary
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E. Drake Kajioka
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Fitz Bushnell
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Fitz Bushnell
in reply to Fitz Bushnell • • •Fitz Bushnell
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Donald Hobern
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Cory Doctorow
in reply to Donald Hobern • • •The Man Who Killed Google Search
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)Donald Hobern
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"Abolish the Canadian laws that protect US Big Tech companies from Canadian competition. Make it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak and modify American technology products and services. Don't ask Facebook to pay a link tax to Canadian newspapers, make it legal to jailbreak all of Meta's apps and block all the ads in them, so Mark Zuckerberg doesn't make a dime off of us."
This should be our goal everywhere.
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Jonathan
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •oh man, this is bleak:
"Before Shiftkey offers a nurse a shift, it purchases that worker's credit history from a data-broker. Specifically, it pays to find out how much credit-card debt the nurse is carrying, and whether it is overdue.
The more desperate the nurse's financial straits are, the lower the wage on offer. Because the more desperate you are, the less you'll accept to come and do the gruntwork of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying."
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George B
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@cstross
> My colleague Charlie Stross calls corporations "slow AI.”
I read that slow AI article many years ago and have looked for it ever since (forgetting who the author was) and it's been absolutely impossible to search for the word "corporation" and "AI" together and get anything useful since 2023 or so.
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Martin Hamilton
in reply to George B • • •Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
in reply to Martin Hamilton • • •@m @gbargoud @cstross
Also by Mr. Stross:
projectrho.com/public_html/roc…
Technology and Society 1 - Atomic Rockets
www.projectrho.comAlexandre Oliva
in reply to George B • • •oh, seeing how doctorow and schneier both quoted stross about this recently, I assumed he'd come up with it before me, but... it looks like I may have, erhm, priority? 🙂
<fsfla.org/~lxoliva/#singular&g…
five minutes into the 2016 LibrePlanet speech, I stated that I had realized the year before that the notion of corporations had already materialized the singularity that we so often feared. indeed, that was the realization around which I built that entire speech 😉
in 2019 I came across another writer who had also figured that out, publishing it at just about the same time as stross
patternsofmeaning.com/2017/11/…
it was an idea whose time had come. that's so cool!
CC: @pluralistic@mamot.fr @cstross@wandering.shop
AI Has Already Taken Over. It’s Called the Corporation
Patterns of MeaningCavyherd
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