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#10yrsago Is Batman鈥檚 evidence admissible in court? https://lawandthemultiverse.com/2015/11/16/batman-constitution-how-gotham-da-convict-criminals/
#10yrsago Hello From the Magic Tavern: hilarious, addictive improv podcast https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/16/hello-from-the-magic-tavern-hilarious-addictive-improv-podcast/
#10yrsago The Internet will always suck https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-the-internet-will-always-suck/
#10yrsago How terrorists trick Western governments into doing their work for them https://web.archive.org/web/20151119044939/http://gawker.com/terrorism-works-1678049997
#5yrsago Youtube-dl is back https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/16/pill-mills/#yt-dl
#5yrsago HHS to pharma: stop bribing writing docs https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/16/pill-mills/#oig
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#5yrsago The Attack Surface Lectures https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/16/pill-mills/#asl
#1yrago Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/radical-extremists/#sex-pest
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Saturday's threads: Zohran Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115555704029158366
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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:
* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversation-enshittification-tickets-1785553983029
* Virtual: Enshittification at the Internet Archive, Nov 21
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-enshittification-tickets-1839608451399
* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
https://www.crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-present
* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
https://www.ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibitions/jailbreaking-canada
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