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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 25
https://writersfestival.org/events/fall-2025/enshittification

* #Toronto: Enshittification with Dan Werb (Type Books), Oct 27
https://www.instagram.com/p/DO81_1VDngu/?img_index=1

* #Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
https://4d.cat/es/conferencia/

* #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/

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CloudFest USA

CloudFest is the world's #1 cloud computing event, and we're coming to Miami Florida!
Ottawa International Writers Festival

Enshittification

8:00pm, Saturday Oct 25 at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa — "Remember when the internet was young and alive, vibrant and accessible and free? Cory Doctorow does, and he knows what’s gone wrong—and he sees a way forward. This is a magnificent book." - James Gleick
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TYPE Books on Instagram: "💫 Just Announced! 💫 Join us on Monday, October 27th @ 7pm for the launch of Cory Doctorow’s much anticipated new book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to do About It. Cory will be joined in conversation by Dan Werb, author of The Invisible Siege and winner of the 2022 Writer’s Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Preorder Enshittification today at the link in bio and stories 🖤

No RSVP required to attend. Doors open at 6:30pm ✔️"

26 likes, 0 comments - typebooksjunction on September 23, 2025: "💫 Just Announced! 💫 Join us on Monday, October 27th @ 7pm for the launch of Cory Doctorow’s much anticipated new book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to do About It. Cory will be joined in conversation by Dan Werb, author of The Invisible Siege and winner of the 2022 Writer’s Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Preorder Enshittification today at the link in bio and stories 🖤 No RSVP required to attend. Doors open at 6:30pm ✔️".
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An Evening with Cory Doctorow

Bestselling science fiction author Cory Doctorow joins us for ENSHITTIFICATION
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4D Conferencia 2025

🚀 La cita imprescindible del diseño, la creatividad y la tecnología.🎤 La conferencia anual de 4D.cat reúne a mentes inquietas y voces disruptivas para inspirar, conectar y transformar ideas en acción.🗓️ ¡Reserva la fecha y forma parte de la experiencia!
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Gavin
@gavin57@toot.wales replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@pluralistic Well I never! Cory is coming to Cardiff, which will definitely be of interest to @teamtoot @jaz folks:

Cardiff, UK: Hay Festival After Hours at Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place (Nov 13, 7PM)
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx

#CardiffWales #enshittification #bookstodon

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Hay Festival After Hours

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oscarfalcon
@oscarfalcon@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@pluralistic

Mr Doctorow, why (or rather would you) not come to México. I know there are a lot of admirers and readers of your work (myself included).

Your ideas need a new poly-cultural audience...

Latinamerica needs new privacy-protective and anti-monopolist ideas.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@oscarfalcon The book isn't out in Spanish until 2026!

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oscarfalcon
@oscarfalcon@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@pluralistic

Well I hope you consider our fair cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara in your future tour (especailly Monterrey, my home town).

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@oscarfalcon Thank you!

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Matthew Merkovich
@MattMerk@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@pluralistic It would be great if somewhere in Colorado was somewhere on the list. ;-)

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@MattMerk Haven't had a bookstore there ask to have a tour stop since Tattered Cover changed hands.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Announcing the Enshittification tour: Come say hi, why dontcha?

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115294040680830787

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Kirby Goulet
@Kgou@pixelfed.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@pluralistic@mamot.fr link broken?
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Hey look at this

* The Case Against Generative AI https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/

* Day 5: Another Bad Day for Google as the Spirit of De Tocqueville Looms https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/day-5-another-bad-day-for-google

* On Free Speech, Jacobin Has Always Been Consistent https://jacobin.com/2025/09/first-amendment-cancel-culture-kirk-kimmel/

* Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs https://www.404media.co/landlords-demand-tenants-workplace-logins-to-scrape-their-paystubs/

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On Free Speech, Jacobin Has Always Been Consistent

In recent years, liberals, the Left, and the Right have all waffled on defending free speech when it doesn’t suit them. But not Jacobin. For 15 years, we have insisted that free speech is a basic democratic principle that must be defended.

Day 5: Another Bad Day for Google as the Spirit of De Tocqueville Looms

And an expert witness who oversaw Instagram's migration to Facebook explains how Google's ad tech can be divested within 18 months.
404 Media

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words. I've written it specifically to be read at your leisure — dip in and out
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

#20yrsago Four and Twenty Blackbirds: great goth scary novel discovered on LJ https://memex.craphound.com/2005/09/30/four-and-twenty-blackbirds-great-goth-scary-novel-discovered-on-lj/

#20yrago Last Unicorn author ripped off by filmmaker, struggling and penniless https://web.archive.org/web/20051201203719/http://www.conlanpress.com/youcanhelp/

#20yrsago Copyright scholars and publishers on crazy auctorial theories about books and tech https://web.archive.org/web/20060302133925/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/28/opinion/28oreilly.html?ex=1285560000&en=aa457b249728c229&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

#20yrsago Tim O’Reilly profiled by Steven Levy https://web.archive.org/web/20051013083044/https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/oreilly_pr.html

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https://memex.craphound.com

Four and Twenty Blackbirds: great goth scary novel discovered on LJ

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

#15yrsago Welcome to Bordertown: the first Borderlands book in decades! https://web.archive.org/web/20111201160812/https://ellen-kushner.livejournal.com/326691.html

#15yrsago It Gets Better: video postcards to isolated queer kids from happy queer adults https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/2010/09/28/4996088/sf-says-it-gets-better

#10yrsago Icelanders school their PM on solidarity with Syrian refugees https://www.icelandreview.com/news/icelanders-want-welcome-refugees-pm-responds/

#10yrsago Lemony Snicket gives Planned Parenthood $1M https://x.com/DanielHandler/status/648468194215243776

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

#10yrsago Wisconsin is a paradise for white kids, but a hell for black kids https://web.archive.org/web/20150928230209/https://fusion.net/story/203830/wisconsin-african-americans-juvenile-arrests/

#10yrsago After OPM hack, CIA pulls agents from Beijing for their safety https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-pulled-officers-from-beijing-after-breach-of-federal-personnel-records/2015/09/29/1f78943c-66d1-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html

#5yrsago Self-driving cars crashing https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/30/death-to-all-monopoly/#pogo-stick-problem

#5yrsago Leaked EU Big Tech rules https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/30/death-to-all-monopoly/#whither-structural-separation

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https://pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: 30 Sep 2020

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

#5yrsago The Anti-Monopoly War Song https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/30/death-to-all-monopoly/#victims-of-vile-subsidies

#5yrsago How I write https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/30/death-to-all-monopoly/#process-notes

#1yrago A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/life-finds-a-way/#ink-stained-wretches

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Pluralistic: 30 Sep 2020

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