Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/02/denazification/denazification.jpg
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The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers next!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116504763260398767
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Hey look at this
* “The Mistake Will Not Recur [Until Two Sentences From Now]” https://www.loweringthebar.net/2026/04/the-mistake-will-not-recur.html
* Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/
* Your Dinner Got Worse On Purpose https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-dinner-got-worse-on-purpose
* Hadopi (2009–2026) https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2026/04/30/hadopi-2009-2026-2/
* You’re Not Wrong, Babies Are Getting Worse: Enshittification Comes For A Once-Beloved Classic https://theonion.com/youre-not-wrong-babies-are-getting-worse-enshittification-comes-for-a-once-beloved-classic/
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#25yrsago Implementing TCP over pigeon https://blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
#20yrsago Barenaked Ladies frontman on copyright reform https://web.archive.org/web/20060505032617/http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=3367a219-f395-4161-a9b9-95256c613824
#20yrsago Stephen Colbert kills at White House press corps dinner https://web.archive.org/web/20060501114431/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002425363
#20yrsago Cinema owners try to lure us back to the movies https://web.archive.org/web/20060620140301/https://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/peninsula/14457900.htm?source=rss&channel=mercurynews_peninsula
#20yrsago Smithsonian’s sellout to Showtime slammed by Congress https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/28/AR2006042802213_2.html
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#20yrago Wallaby milk: proof against antibiotic resistant bacteria https://web.archive.org/web/20060429102138/http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=593632006
#20yrsago Documentary on radical free school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgpuSo-GSfw
#15yrsago Facebook celebrates royal wedding by nuking 50 protest groups https://anticutsspace.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/political-facebook-groups-deleted-on-royal-wedding-day/
#15yrsago Jay Rosen: What I Think I Know About Journalism https://pressthink.org/2011/04/what-i-think-i-know-about-journalism/
#15yrsago Companies should release the source code for discontinued products https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/if-youre-going-to-kill-it-open-source-it/
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#15yrsago Scratch-built “freedom press” https://makezine.com/article/craft/freedom_press/
#15yrsago HOWTO quilt a 3D Mad Tea Party set https://www.instructables.com/Quilted-Mad-Tea-Party-Set/
#15yrsago Online activism works: Canada delayed US-style copyright bill in fear of activist campaign https://web.archive.org/web/20110501103056/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5763/125/
#15yrsago Ad agency to radicals: “We own radical media(TM)” https://web.archive.org/web/20110503045909/http://radicalmediaconference.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/we-make-radical-media-you-make-adverts/
#15yrsago Troubletwisters: Garth Nix and Sean Williams’ action-packed new kids’ fantasy https://memex.craphound.com/2011/04/30/troubletwisters-garth-nix-and-sean-williams-action-packed-new-kids-fantasy/
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#15yrsago RIP, Joanna Russ https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012974.html#547586
#5yrsago Experian doxes the world (again) https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/30/dox-the-world/#experian
#5yrsago Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/writers-must-be-paid/#pay-the-writer
#5yrsago Korea set to break the Samsung dynasty https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/writers-must-be-paid/#dynasties
#5yrsago What the hell is "carried interest" https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/writers-must-be-paid/#carried-interest
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#1yrago Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/29/cheaters-and-liars/#caveat-emptor-brainworms
#1yrago Republicans want to force students to pay off scam college loans https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/30/trump-u/#i-think-you-know-what-the-trustees-can-do-with-their-suggestions
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Thursday's threads: How not to ban surveillance pricing; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116494235875803571
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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:
* #Barcelona: Internet no tiene que ser un vertedero (Global Digital Rights Forum), May 13
https://encuentroderechosdigitales.com/en/speakers/
* Virtual: How to Disenshittify the Internet with Wendy Liu (EFF), May 14
https://www.eff.org/event/effecting-change-enshittification
* #Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow
* #Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow.html
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2
* SXSW #London, Jun 2
https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/how-big-tech-broke-the-internet-b3c4a901
* #NYC: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Jonathan Coulton (The Strand), Jun 24
https://www.strandbooks.com/cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai.html
* #Edinburgh International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales, Aug 17
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/the-front-list-cory-doctorow-and-jimmy-wales
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Recent appearances:
* Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Disruptor, with Astra Taylor and Yoshua Bengio (CBC Ideas)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16210039-artificial-intelligence-the-ultimate-disruptor
* When Do Platforms Stop Innovating and Start Extracting? (InnovEU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccDR0YaMt8
* Pete "Mayor" Buttigieg (No Gods No Mayors)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pete-mayor-with-155614612
* The internet is getting worse (CBC The National)
https://youtu.be/dCVUCdg3Uqc?si=FMcA0EI_Mi13Lw-P
* Do you feel screwed over by big tech? (Ontario Today)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45-ontario-today/clip/16203024-do-feel-screwed-big-tech
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I'm also on Bluesky. Read today's thread there at:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:web:pluralistic.net/post/3mkukyyvd3c2h
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) (@doctorow.pluralistic.net)
Comrade Trump continues his streak of destroying the American empire's grip on the world, hastening the renewables transition, de-dollarizing trade, and killing the world's suicidal habit of entrusting its digital life to America's defective, enshittified tech: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/#acceleration 1/
kbalThe link looks wrong from here — should be https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/02/denazification/
@kbal Fixed!
Bolt@pluralistic inspiring as usual.
@Bolt Thank you!
Hamish BuchananMost ICE agents will no doubt imagine themselves safe from being ratted out by a violations-free colleague, and they may be right, but the thought of them eyeing each other nervously is a good one.
Terrible Towelie@hamishb @pluralistic infiltrate their ranks cause mutiny from within, they hire anybody
Phosphenes@terribletowelie @hamishb @pluralistic
Yes body cam EVERYTHING and save the records offline.
Lightfighter@pluralistic I wholeheartedly agree that the power grab that was Marbury v. Maddison has been allowed to stand for too long.
Balancecraft@pluralistic This is not quite right: CLEAN Mergers Act is actually even better! Mergers over $10B are *presumptively* unwound, whether or not political interference, (unless merging parties can show no harm to competition in a declaratory judgment action).
The review for indicia of political interference (mostly, did DOJ override staff recs) targets all other mergers (under $10B)
3rd great thing is it extends statute of limitations from 4 to 10 years, helping state AGs & private litigants
GhostOnTheHalfShellI am even more strict about it. There shouldn’t be a company worth $10 billion.
Break up all the major corporations into teeny tiny little pieces so that a US can regulate them
oscarfalconOh Mr Doctorow, although I feel your hopefulness, we the rest of the world are not as positive as you in believing things will be easy, Nürnberg trials and rewards for whistleblowers notwithstanding, the unites states seems too far gone to come back and yet, if a change is to be made at all it would be in everyone's interest, (including those of us outside Usonia), for something "new" AND "better" than what is now the government...
Jess F@pluralistic
I love this. Do you think adding SCOTUS to the FRA could be added to the nuremberg plan? I've done some work on this with @TeamMidwest https://www2.archivists.org/statements/issue-brief-judiciary-records?page=1
Separately, i believe local immigrant safety networks are doing exactly what you're saying: we know we can't physically keep people from being kidnapped, but we can record it and keep the receipts for when our nuremburg trial moment comes.