Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/17/boop-oop-a-doop/
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I'm at the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
I hope you can make it!
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Happy Public Domain Day 2026!: The best way to cut through the hellishly complex thicket and bring our culture back to life.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115735994009505373
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Hey look at this
* NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It? https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/
* How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
* Who do they think you are? https://hidden-selves.wove.co/
* Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/ (h/t DSHR)
* Mobile Voting Project’s vote-by-smartphone has real security gaps https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/12/16/mobile-voting-projects-vote-by-smartphone-has-real-security-gaps/
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#20yrago Sony DRM Debacle Roundup Part V https://memex.craphound.com/2005/12/16/sony-drm-debacle-roundup-part-v/
#15yrsago Weird D&D advice-column questions https://comicsalliance.com/weird-dd-questions-dungeons-dragons/
#10yrsago America’s permanent, ubiquitous tent-cities https://placesjournal.org/article/tent-city-america/
#10yrsago The changing world of webcomics business models https://web.archive.org/web/20151218130702/http://shadowbinders.com/webcomics-changing-business-model-podcast/
#10yrsago Cop who demanded photo of sexting-accused teen’s penis commits suicide https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/cop-who-wanted-to-take-pic-of-erection-in-sexting-case-commits-suicide/
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#10yrsago Saudi millionaire acquitted of raping teen in London, says he tripped and accidentally penetrated her https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12052901/Ehsan-Abdulaziz-Saudi-millionaire-cleared-of-raping-teenager.html
#10yrsago Someone snuck skimmers into Safeway stores https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/skimmers-found-at-some-calif-colo-safeways/
#10yrsago Philips promises new firmware to permit third-party lightbulbs https://web.archive.org/web/20151216182639/http://www.developers.meethue.com/content/friends-hue-program-update
#5yrsago Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925 https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fraught-superpowers/#public-domain-day
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#5yrsago Landmark US financial transparency law https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fraught-superpowers/#financial-secrecy
#5yrsago Chaos Communications Congress https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fraught-superpowers/#rc3
#5yrsago Email sabbaticals https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fraught-superpowers/#email-sabbatical
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Yesterday's threads: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115731009551669666
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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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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, 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:
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
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Recent appearances:
* (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU)
https://vimeo.com/1146281673
* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34gkIvYiHxU
* Enshittification on The Daily Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE
* Enshittification with Four Ways to Change the World (Channel 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQaEeuuI3Q
* The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. (Novarra Media)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wE8G-d7SnY
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I'm at the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
I hope you can make it!
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