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#5yrsago Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/surveillance-tulip-bulbs/#adtech-bubble
#1yrago Battery rationality https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/06/shoenabombers/#paging-dick-cheney
#1yrago A year in illustration (2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/07/great-kepplers-ghost/#art-adjacent
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Saturday's threads: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115674761066650994
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Saturday's threads: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115674761066650994
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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:
* Virtual: Poetic Technologies with Brian Eno (David Graeber Institute), Dec 8
https://davidgraeber.institute/poetic-technologies-with-cory-doctorow-and-brian-eno/
* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
https://rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/cory-doctorow-enshittification
* #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:
* The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. (Novarra Media)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wE8G-d7SnY
* Enshittification (Future Knowledge)
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/enshittification
* We have become slaves to Silicon Valley (Politics JOE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzEUvh1r5-w
* How Enshittification is Destroying The Internet (Frontline Club)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oovsyzB9L-s
* Escape Forward with Cristina Caffarra
https://escape-forward.com/2025/11/27/enshittification-of-our-digital-experience/
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