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Inside: A winning trade war strategy for Canada; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/11/disenshittification-nation/
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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A winning trade war strategy for Canada: Tech giants are also the enemy of American businesses.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115882988148138076
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Hey look at this
* Zohran Mamdani Has Quickly Gotten Down to Business https://jacobin.com/2026/01/mamdani-executive-orders-housing-childcare/
* Nichols & May: Monitor Radio 1962-1967 https://taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2026/01/nichols-may-monitor-radio-1962-1967.html
* State of the World 2026 with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky https://user.well.com/engaged.cgi?t=561&c=inkwell.vue&f=0
* How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
* Scenes from O’Reilly ETCon 2002 https://www.globalnerdy.com/2026/01/11/scenes-from-oreilly-etcon-2002/
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#20yrsago Indie labels give free MP3s to customers who buy vinyl https://web.archive.org/web/20060111215100/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004313.php
#20yrsago Hollywood’s Canadian politico lies about her approach to lawmaking https://web.archive.org/web/20110425163053/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1071
#20yrsago Correcting the Record: Wikipedia vs The Register https://memex.craphound.com/2006/01/11/correcting-the-record-wikipedia-vs-the-register/
#20yrsago Hollywood’s MP denounces “users,” “EFF members” — video https://web.archive.org/web/20060323035434/http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/12/1659162.html
#20yrsago My short-short story “Printcrime” in this week’s Nature magazine https://craphound.com/stories/2006/01/12/printcrime/#more
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#15yrsago HOWTO teach your small children to swordfight https://reactormag.com/spec-fic-parenting-this-my-son-is-a-sword/
#15yrsago HOWTO make a secure, decentralized, human-readable name system http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko
#15yrsago Demon rug https://www.flickr.com/photos/missmonstermel/5346690831/in/photostream/
#15yrsago Jeff Koons claims to own all balloon dogs https://www.designboom.com/art/jeff-koons-can-one-copyright-a-balloon-animal/
#10yrsago Brewster Kahle remembers Aaron Swartz: “an open source life” https://www.aaronswartzday.org/brewster-sf-memorial/
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#10yrsago Sympathetic Bernie Sanders profile in Bloomberg Businessweek https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-bernie-sanders-fundraising/
#10yrsago Internal documents from breathalyzer company Lifesaver dumped online https://web.archive.org/web/20160113075611/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/car-breathalyzer-company-gets-hacked-internal-docs-dumped-on-dark-web
#10yrsago How fraudsters’ call centers work https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/01/a-look-inside-cybercriminal-call-centers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSecurity+(Krebs+on+Security)
#10yrsago Why all scientific diet research turns out to be bullshit https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition/?ex_cid=story-facebook
#10yrsago NSA says it will take four years to answer questions about its kids’ coloring book https://web.archive.org/web/20160114074709/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-nsa-told-me-it-needs-4-years-to-answer-a-foia-about-a-coloring-book
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#10yrsago Bowie, Eno and serendipity https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford_how_frustration_can_make_us_more_creative
#10yrsago Chelsea Manning reviews book of Aaron Swartz’s writing https://medium.com/@xychelsea/remembering-aaron-swartz-94d204b9e190#.5fcfs5mby
#10yrsago WATCH: documentary on Walt Disney, the futurist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwLznNpJz2I
#10yrsago Guns filled with guts: Anatomy of War https://www.noahscalin.com/#/anatomyofwar1/
#10yrsago Book says Daddy Koch built Nazi oil refinery & hired a Nazi nanny for his boys, who blackmailed their gay brother https://web.archive.org/web/20160114081716/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/11/new-book-father-of-politically-active-koch-brothers-built-a-refinery-for-the-nazis/
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#10yrsago Rich Americans are embarrassed by Donald Trump https://web.archive.org/web/20160115052314/https://gawker.com/donald-trumps-personal-brand-is-slowly-excruciatingly-1752374812?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=tuesdayAM
#10yrsago New US law says kids can walk to school by themselves https://www.fastcompany.com/3055107/federal-law-now-says-kids-can-walk-to-school-alone
#10yrsago Toronto’s mayor demands an end to competition for fast, affordable broadband https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2016/01/why-mayors-john-tory-and-jim-watson-are-against-competition-for-access-to-affordable-fast-broadband/
#10yrsago Your smartwatch knows your ATM and phone PIN https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.05616v1
#10yrsago Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical https://memex.craphound.com/2016/01/12/keep-your-scythe-the-real-green-future-is-high-tech-democratic-and-radical/
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#10yrsago Will the W3C strike a bargain to save the Web from DRM? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/you-cant-destroy-village-save-it-w3c-vs-drm-round-two
#5yrsago Bunkered, infectious, maskless Republicans infected Congress https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/12/maskholio/#maskholes
#5yrsago Awful voting-machine demands silence https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/11/seeing-things/#ess
#5yrsago Weaponing and monetizing apophenia https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/11/seeing-things/#woo
#5yrsago DC's security theater panned https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/11/seeing-things/#curtain-call
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Saturday's threads: Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition); and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115871576227978146
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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:
* #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/
* #Ottawa: Enshittification at Perfect Books, Jan 28
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
* #Toronto: Enshittification and the Age of Extraction with Tim Wu, Jan 30
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
* #Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
https://www.rebootcommunications.com/event/vipss2026/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Berlin: Re:publical, May 18-20
https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow
* #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification (Creative Nonfiction podcast)
https://brendanomeara.com/episode-507-enshittification-author-cory-doctorow-believes-in-a-new-good-internet/
* A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39c3)
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
* Enshittification with Plutopia
https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-enshittification/
* "can't make Big Tech better; make them less powerful" (Get Subversive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1EzM9_6eLE
* The Enshitification Life Cycle with David Dayen (Organized Money)
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2412334/episodes/18399894
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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LightFIAR@pluralistic I'm sure RFK will be relieved that someone found it.
matlag@pluralistic Is there a petition for the House of Commons we can sign somewhere?
stephen m 🍞🌹🇵🇸@pluralistic This is a great idea!!!!! And something that people on the ground should most certainly consider to organize around, an opportunity to undo the DMCA is certainly worth pushing #copyright #DMCA #DMCA1201
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leastaction@pluralistic Yes, but consider also that boycotting American goods and services is the one thing that ordinary people can do, independently of what the govt chooses to do, or not do. Besides, the odds are pretty good that that farmer voted for Trump.
Jim Rootham@pluralistic One detail. CUSMA is what enforces C-11 and it is still in effect and is being used more to shield Canadian products from US tariffs.
Michel Patrice« You see, America's businesses – large and small – are victims of Big Tech's extraction. »
That's so true.
Your work might most probably interest the Fight the Oligarchy crowd.
I have discovered you a few weeks ago and now your work seems to be everywhere. Probably some selection bias on my part.
Still, why don't you use some hastags? Your work would travel farther in the fediverse.