I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in Burbank (TODAY!), #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
https://websummit.com/sessions/lis25/92f47bc9-ca60-4997-bef3-006735b1f9c5/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet/

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx

* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/

* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Burbank (TODAY!) #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Burbank (TODAY!), #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Burbank, #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Miami, #Burbank and #Lisbon!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115476211001123255

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Hey look at this

* The Forgotten History of Socialism and the Occult https://jacobin.com/2025/10/socialism-occult-mysticism-marxism-history/

* Study: AI Models Trained On Clickbait Slop Result In AI ‘Brain Rot,’ ‘Hostility’ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/study-ai-models-trained-on-clickbait-slop-result-in-ai-brain-rot-hostility/

* The Validation Machines https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/validation-ai-raffi-krikorian/684764/

* The Department of Defense Wants Less Proof its Software Works https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/department-defense-wants-less-proof-its-software-works

* Ireland: Adopt new, transparent process to appoint Data Protection Commissioner https://www.article19.org/resources/ireland-adopt-new-transparent-process-to-appoint-data-protection-commissioner/

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Yesterday's threads: The internet was made for privacy; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115469869245641903

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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:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels

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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:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

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Picks and Shovels

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new...

Macmillan Publishers

Upcoming appearances:

* Virtual: Peoples and Things with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel, Nov 3
https://www.youtube.com/live/WjFvGPLpskk

* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1504647263469

* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
https://www.cloudfest.com/usa/

* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
https://www.burbankbookfestival.com/

* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
https://websummit.com/sessions/lis25/92f47bc9-ca60-4997-bef3-006735b1f9c5/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx

* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/

* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams

* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
https://dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/oen5rr-downstream-irl-aaron-bastani-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-17th-nov-earth-london-tickets

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversation-enshittification-tickets-1785553983029

* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
https://www.crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-present

* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
https://compneuro.washington.edu/news-and-events/neuroscience-ai-and-society/

* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
https://rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/cory-doctorow-enshittification

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Recent appearances:

* CA Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFyc

* Amanpour & Co (New Yorker Radio Hour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8l1uSb0LZg

* Enshittification is Not Inevitable (Team Human)
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/339-cory-doctorow-enshittification-is-not-inevitable

* The Great Enshittening (The Gray Area)
https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophypodcasts/comments/1obghu7/the_gray_area_the_great_enshittening_10202025/

* Enshittification (Smart Cookies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BoORwEPlQ0

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Pluralistic: There’s one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech (01 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Miami, #Burbank and #Lisbon!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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@pluralistic encanyouthefucknotificartion... is a long word I just made up, as a battlecry with an emphasis on cry.
@pluralistic a conversation between you and Carole Cadwalladr would be worth a listen. Will it be online anywhere?
@simon_brooke Likely, but I'm not sure.
@simon_brooke @pluralistic this is the one I was looking at too